Costing Analyst - Manufacturing

Department:           Product

Reports to:              Head of Product

Our Values:

• Every day the energy, creativity and passion of Manolo permeates through our business.
• We believe in the artist and the artisan; we are innovative while still protecting our heritage.
• We strive for timeless beauty and quality craftmanship.
• We celebrate curiosity and believe in working proactively and being solution focused.
• We believe in upholding family values; we treat everyone with honesty, respect and kindness while nurturing our teams to deliver excellence.
• We believe in making people smile.

To proactively manage pricing within MBIL manufacturing by completing benchmarking of factories and suppliers to ensure the most cost-effective prices are negotiated and agreed without impacting on existing relationships, quality or efficiency.

Responsibilities:

• Requesting cost prices and cost sheets to factories, analysing them and uploading them in PLM system.
• Analyse cost sheets from different factories, identifying differences and feeding back to senior team and factories.
• Track costs and challenge them with factories.
• Requesting prices from material suppliers and logging them in the PLM system.
• Proactively look for opportunities for cost savings across factories before and after market.
• Monitor historical pricing for reorders and similarities in pricing new collections.
• Analyse pricing architecture and seasonal range plans provided by the Pricing Analyst - Commercial.
• Approve factory invoices for sampling and production.
• Support for divisional budget.
• Manage factory invoice disputes.
• Work closely with the Pricing Analyst – Commercial and liaise with other departments on all pricing matters.
• Manage packaging orders.

Any other tasks as requested. 

Skills and Experience Required:

• Technical knowledge of luxury footwear is preferable (ideally women’s and men’s).
• Italian (verbal and written) is essential as the role involves daily liaising with factories and suppliers in Italy.
• Knowledge of materials in relation to features, benefits and pricing.
• Excellent Commercial awareness and business acumen.
• Ability to prioritise tasks, and ensure delivery of results within tight deadlines.
• Excellent numerical skills.
• Excellent attention to detail and accuracy.  
• Proficient in Excel.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Network: Ability to build relationships and network easily, both internally and externally
• Ambassador: Representing Manolo Blahnik products and values with passion.