Costing Specialist, Winter Sports Boots & Equipment

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Key Responsibility Areas

• Be responsible for Snowboard and Nordic Boots product costing calculation & analysis under Amer Sports Winter Sports Equipment (with potential enrichment of job scope for all Winter Sports sourced products)
• Support Sourcing Director to negotiate with supplier &/or through costing analysis to find other more cost effective alternatives to hit price target
• Proactively to communicate with HQ Costing team, Sourcing Director, and other key stakeholders
• Work closely with factory costing team to identify and capitalize cost saving possibilities & alternatives so as to achieve price/value optimization result. May involve close communication and sometimes negotiation
• Support and work closely together with Sourcing Director on FOB price, Tooling &/or Process cost negotiation
• Provide timely, fact-based, quality cost information to headquarter and factory
• Ensure seasonal CBDs are accurate and confirmed on a timely basis (BOM price and consumption for costing: size vs sample/pattern, FOB details, tooling cost and amortization, x-rates)
• Meet key development stages CBD (development/Budget times/ Buy ready); update PO prices in Plasma database timely to maintain correct PO prices during SMS and mass production
• Take lead to standardize and enhance costing procedures (e.g. CBD Format and etc.) for relevant WSE products
• Working proactively with HQ/BU Costing team and vendor costing team(s) to make sure each costing deadline will be met. Mitigate and find solutions together with HQ & Vendor costing teams if time line are off track, and support timely communication with key stakeholders

Requirements

• University degree or similar qualification
• 3-5 years solid costing experience in Footwear industry; or 6-8 years solid & strong costing experience in other industry
• Fluent English with strong communication and negotiation skill
• Familiar with IT-skills (e-mail, MS Office, strong Excel skills, Power Point)
• Negotiation experience
• Product Costing related knowledge, such as SRP, PGP, ASP, BSC, freight, duty, amortization, FOB, BOM, DLC, OH, profit %
• Knowledge on plastic injection &/or carbon composites is of advantage.
• Occasional travel to Asia countries. (around 4-5 times per years)