Global Costing Manager- Apparel

Global Costing Manager Apparel

This position is designated as a hybrid role based out of our headquarters near Portland, Oregon. The current expectation is for employees to work onsite four days per week, subject to change based on business needs. This in-office requirement may be adjusted at the discretion of the company.

How You'll Make A Difference

• Analyzes data to identify and track cost savings.
• Assists costing director and guides team to optimize the costing process to improve cost visibility and team efficiency.
• Communicates and negotiates to ensure the cost provided is fair and reasonable and aligns with the costing and sourcing strategy.
• Assists with preparing seasonal economic outlooks for executive leadership team and functional teams. Ensures pre-costing sharing between HQ and LO costings. Drives discussions and solicits feedback and advice for quality costing. Monitors and records activities for cost saving and mitigation. Plans necessary trainings. Maintains or improves relationships with different regions.
• Foresees challenges for costing routines and performance. Communicates and solves problems. Ensures the timeliness and quality performance of costing.
• Organizes team to build costing standards, including process and tooling costs. Organizes team to collect data to set up databases, including bottoms and components. Organizes for related costing comparisons and reports and discusses improvements with costing director and related functional teams.
• Creatively initializes new costing tasks in alignment with costing principals and analysts. Drives reports for reliable results. Implements costing strategy and goals. Issues and updates costing policies. Coordinates and reports yearly costing savings and mitigations records. Motivates team to achieve high efficiency and company margin / finance goals.
• Adds or simplifies costing related process improvements and promotes communication for implementation. Approves costing manual updates.

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Columbia Sportswear Company is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law. Columbia Sportswear Company is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities.