05 oct
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VF Singapore Overseas Services Pte.
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Asia
05 oct
VF Singapore Overseas Services Pte.
Asia
ABOUT YOUR ROLE
The Senior Manager, Costing leads the sourcing development costing function across multiple manufacturing countries for TNF apparel, managing a $1B+ FOB portfolio. This role is responsible for driving transformation to a cohesive, data-driven, and standardized costing processes. The leader will partner closely with sourcing development, apparel engineering, product supply enablement (PSE), brand planning, PD and design to drive margin optimization, and enable fact-based decision making across the organization.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
The Senior Manager, Costing will act as central connector across Finance, Product Supply Enablement (PSE) and Brand to establish and own end-to-end product cost governance. This includes:
- Enable a forward-looking cost projection aligned to brand long-range plans.
- Identify margin improvement opportunities and develop execution plan.
- Lead seasonal cost negotiations and product engineering for cost optimization.
- Own and ensure end-to-end visibility of seasonal FOB across GTM milestones by proactively consolidating and communicating cost status, risks, and projection outlook to enable timely, data-driven decision making.
- Ensure a structured milestone-based reporting cadence to track FOB evolution, highlight risks and variances vs. targets, and drive timely corrective actions.
- Partner with cross functional team to define and implement forward looking, standardized costing standards and framework.
- These standards will be scaled across vendors and other brands to enable consistent costing approach and support data-driven decision-making.
From leadership and team management perspective, this role will:
- Ensuring alignment to a unified strategy and operating model across regions while enabling strong regional execution with clear performance standards and accountability
- Build organizational capability in cost engineering, negotiation, and data-driven decision making
- Act as the general functional authority for cost
📌 Senior Manager, Costing (Asia)
🏢 VF Singapore Overseas Services Pte.
📍 Asia