职位描述Details
Purpose:
Support the Head of Costing by building a transparent, fact-based and consistent costing platform for the responsible brands or divisions. Focus on products and customers to drive optimization of price/value ratio.
Key Responsibilities:
Collaborate closely with Development, Materials and other key functions within the LO and respective factories to ensure that products are developed to cost targets.
Proactively identity and capitalize on cost savings opportunities, and ensure price/value optimization.
Handles the entire costing operations of defined product ranges or brands.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities:
Provide timely, fact-based, quality cost information to headquarters, factories and other liaison offices.
With Development, ensure seasonal product lines are confirmed within acceptable cost target parameters, on a timely basis. Meet activation/buy ready deadlines.
Continually drive costing process improvement. Challenge existing standards and procedures (if necessary) to achieve cost and process synergies across factories.
Build loyal, mutually beneficial business models with factories through collaboration and teamwork based on confirmed standards and an understanding of the cost drivers within each factory and the adidas product.
Collaborate closely with all departments to ensure all adidas products and processes are developed to meet and exceed customer targets, while balancing customer expectation in regards to quality, delivery and cost.
Requisite Education:
University or College degree, Very good English level
Experience in Footwear or Material industry
Strong price negotiation skills.
Strong sense of integrity.
IT-skills (e-mail, MS Office, Excel, Access a benefit).
Good verbal and written communication skills in a global business setting.