On - Lead – Apparel & Accessories Materials Costing - Hanoi

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Costing & Sourcing

In short

As team leader in costing, your core responsibilities would be to define material cost benchmarking, to drive cost competitiveness, and to set up costing guidelines across regions and material partners, partnering with product creation and sourcing to achieve seasonal profit margin.
This is your opportunity to become part of the world’s fastest-growing sports company. As a member of the globally integrated supply chain team and cross-functional apparel and accessories organization, you will be based in Hanoi City, Vietnam with frequent travel within Asia & to our key factory partner

Your mission

– Taking the lead to analyze the database in global sourcing and supplier base and set the benchmark and guideline for costing. Communicate proactively internally with product creation to enable RFT material selection.

– Build up material costing benchmarks on a seasonal basis by considering the global and regional market trends and material cost data.

– Independently conduct seasonal price negotiations with suppliers for raw material, manufacturing, and process costs

– Build strong partnerships with suppliers, track their performance based on costing accuracy and efficiency, and collaborate with suppliers and product development for improvement to achieve seasonal profit margin.

– Document and manage inputs to material costing, such as raw material prices, processing, and finishing

– Partner with product management, material development, and commercialization to achieve margin goals.

– Collaborate with the supply chain team on the purchasing model and volume forecast, identify potential bottlenecks, and actively search for volume discount opportunities.

– Maintain accurate and complete material costing data on PLM systems.

– Leading material Costing project globally from an end-to-end business perspective, from Project initiation/planning to project communication (externally and internally) / tracking and project implementation

Your story

– At least 7 years of material or relative textile costing background, preferably with 3-4 years in a manufacturing environment and 3-5 years with an international brand.

– Excellent data analysis skill.

– Knowledgeable in the textile manufacturing process and setup.

– Excellent communication & interpersonal skills and the ability to work with multicultural teams.

– Proficiency in English is a must.

– An entrepreneurial and open mindset, an eagerness for differentiation, and a natural push for excellence.

– Able to balance creativity with organization and discipline in a fast-paced environment.

Meet the team

You will be part of a dynamic cross-functional team of development, material management, quality, and production in On’s Asia Sourcing Office. The apparel and accessory business is growing fast; you will be working very closely with the product development team and reporting to the Apparel Development Head for Sourcing.