Senior Analyst, Costing

• Develop and manage costing operations for seasonal product development across VF brands, products, and countries
• Partner with sourcing development, product sourcing, brand, material, planning, and vendor stakeholders
• Modernize and standardize costing approaches using consistent, data-driven, automated, and efficient processes
• Support designing products to cost and achieving product cost savings
• Champion connectivity and information sharing across vendors and cross-functional stakeholders
• Manage seasonal development costing milestones and activities
• Lead vendor negotiations using fact-based costing methodologies and product engineering to improve profitability
• Provide FOB and landed costing perspectives to support vendor allocation and sourcing strategies
• Ensure costing process adherence among costing operations teams and vendors
• Track and report key metrics related to performance, efficiency, and transparency
• Lead and participate in cross-functional initiatives and conduct analyses, producing deliverables in a fast-paced environment
• Improve costing productivity and efficiency by eliminating redundancies, automating repetitive tasks, and optimizing processes

• Minimum 4 years of experience in industrial garment manufacturing, buying office, or trading company
• Ability to understand technical specifications, Bill of Materials, and garment constructions
• Knowledge of fabric weaving, constructions, and different dyeing processes is a plus
• Knowledge of embellishments, including print techniques, embroidery, and quilting is a plus
• Experience in sweater knits and accessories is an advantage
• Ability to influence and drive consensus
• Experience adopting change, business process redesign, or process reengineering
• Strong negotiation, analytical, and reasoning skills
• Eagerness to learn and adopt new methods, tools, and technologies
• Strong Microsoft Office skills, especially Excel and PowerPoint
• Good communication skills: diplomatic, open, good listener, direct, succinct
• Oral and written fluency in English
• Demonstrated accountability, stakeholder partnership, leadership, strategic and innovative thinking, and ability to work under pressure in a fast-paced environment