ABOUT YOUR ROLE Acts as the global functional focal point for apparel costing, driving enterprise standards, influencing strategic sourcing decisions, and enabling margin delivery across the product creation lifecycle. Leads end-to-end costing execution across a global sourcing portfolio, ensuring cost accuracy, transparency, and alignment to brand margin targets. Owns global costing delivery by embedding enterprise costing standards into disciplined regional execution, enabled through active leadership, development, and coaching of Senior Costing Engineers within key manufacturing regions. Partners cross-functionally with Sourcing Development, Engineering, Product Supply Enablement (PSE), Brand Planning, Product Development, Design & merch to drive margin optimization, strengthen cost discipline, and enable fact-based, data-driven decision making across the organization.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
1. End-to-End Costing Delivery
- Own global FOB validation, consolidation, and submission across all GTM milestones
- Ensure costing accuracy, completeness, and alignment to margin targets
- Provide structured visibility of FOB evolution, risks, and variance to enable decision making
- Maintain discipline in milestone tracking, forecast accuracy, and buy readiness 2. Cost Governance & Standards Execution
- Implement and enforce global costing standards, frameworks, and processes across regions
- Ensure consistency in costing methodologies, assumptions, and tools
- Own governance of cost changes, exceptions, and approval processes
- Drive transparency and accountability in costing outcomes 3. Regional Costing Leadership
- Lead regional costing execution through Senior Costing Engineers in key sourcing countries (e.g., Vietnam, Bangladesh)
- Set clear expectations, monitor performance,



and ensure delivery against timelines and targets
- Drive alignment of regional execution to general costing strategy and operating model
- Identify and buoy risks impacting cost performance or GTM readiness 4. Cost Optimization & Commercial Impact
- Lead vendor-facing cost negotiations and cost engineering initiatives
- Identify opportunities across materials, construction, and manufacturing efficiency to improve margins
- Partner with Engineering, Sourcing and Product teams to balance cost, quality, and product intent
- Support sourcing allocation decisions through cost competitiveness insights 5. Cross-Functional Partnership
- Partner with Product Development, Merchandising, Sourcing, PSE, and Finance to align on cost targets and margin delivery
- Provide insights on economic trends, cost drivers, trade impacts, and regional dynamics to inform decision making
- Contribute to integrated planning and cost projection discussions 6. Reporting & Insights
- Lead structured costing communication at key GTM milestones
- Consolidate regional inputs into clear, actionable global insights
- Highlight risks, opportunities, and recommended actions to stakeholders 7. Capability Building
- Build costing capability across regions through coaching and guidance of Sr Costing Engineers
- Develop team discipline in:
- Costing fundamentals
- Analytical rigor




- Stakeholder communication COMPETENCY REQUIREMENTS Strong commercial acumen with the ability to connect product costs, sourcing strategies, margin performance, and business outcomes. Demonstrated analytical thinking and problem-solving capability, with the ability to translate data into actionable business recommendations. Proven ability to influence and build alignment across cross-functional stakeholders in a complex, matrixed environment. Strong leadership capability with experience coaching, developing, and leading teams while driving accountability and continuous improvement. Results-oriented with a strong ownership mindset and ability to deliver in a fast-paced, milestone-driven environment. Effective communicator with the ability to simplify complex topics and influence decision-making through clear insights and business storytelling. Proven change agent with the ability to drive process standardization, governance, and adoption of new ways of working. Digital and continuous improvement mindset with a passion for leveraging data, systems, and technology to improve performance. KEY QUALIFICATIONS Bachelor's degree in Textile Engineering, Apparel Manufacturing, Industrial Engineering, Supply Chain, Finance, or a related field. 6+ years of experience in apparel sourcing, manufacturing, product costing, cost engineering, or supply chain operations, including multi-country sourcing environments. Strong expertise in apparel costing, garment construction, manufacturing processes, material cost drivers, and vendor economics. Proven track record of delivering cost optimization, cost engineering, and vendor negotiation initiatives that improve margin performance. Strong understanding of FOB development, cost forecasting, margin management, and costing governance

📌 Manager, Costing (Asia)
🏢 Icebreaker
📍 Asia