Senior Manager, Costing (Footwear)

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Primary Purpose:

Reports to VP, Product Development & Production. Working with the cross-functional team on the costing issue, providing support as needed. Well awareness of job responsibility and standardize the guideline for daily work to get good efficiency.

Job duties:

• Ensure robust costing procedure and methodology for both finished product and midsole and outsole components.
• Have a strong ability to effectively handle supplier negotiations with a high degree of professionalism and integrity.
• A proactive approach to finding value and initiating strategies to mitigate cost.
• Ability to work cross-functionally within the team and build strong partnerships within the product development team located in Asia and New York.
• Manage and coach a small team and devote time and energy to upskilling and developing our talent.
• UsePROCAM to provide yield analysis to ensure that material yield calculations are accurate and provide suggestions to the development team on how we could improve material efficiencies.
• Lead the special project as required (Including providing feedback and inputs into the design of new systems and procedures)

Dimensions:

• Manage the costing aspect of all vendors, collaborate with all the cross-functional teams within Tapestry if needed
  

Requirements:

• 7 years or above of costing experience, including at least one year of managerial position.
  
• Product development and manufacturing essential, leather manufacturing a plus
  
• Strong analytical and negotiation skills to make reasonable judgments on cost. Good numbers, details-minded.
  
• Proficient in English
  

Key Competencies:

• Strong business sense and analytical skills. And decision-making ability.
  
• Strong managerial ability, including directing and motivating others. High-level organization skills
  
• Computer literacy.
  
• Strategic thinking and influencing interactions with others and resolving conflict with various levels of the organization.
  
• Good training and presentation skills.
  

Our Competencies for All Employees

• Courage: Doesn't hold back anything that needs to be said; provides current, direct, complete, and "actionable" positive and corrective feedback to others; lets people know where they stand; faces up to people problems on any person or situation (not including direct reports) quickly and directly; is not afraid to take negative action when necessary.
  
• Creativity: Comes up with a lot of new and unique ideas; easily makes connections among previously unrelated notions; tends to be seen as original and value-added in brainstorming settings.
  
• Customer Focus: Is dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers; gets first-hand customer information and uses it for improvements in products and services; acts with customers in mind; establishes and maintains effective relationships with customers and gains their trust and respect.
  
• Dealing with Ambiguity: Can effectively cope with change; can shift gears comfortably; can decide and act without having the total picture; isn't upset when things are up in the air; doesn't have to finish things before moving on; can comfortably handle risk and uncertainty.
  
• Drive for Results: Can be counted on to exceed goals successfully; is constantly and consistently one of the top performers; very bottom-line oriented; steadfastly pushes self and others for results.
  
• Interpersonal Savvy: Relates well to all kinds of people, up, down, and sideways, inside and outside the organization; builds appropriate rapport; builds constructive and effective relationships; uses diplomacy and tact; can diffuse even high-tension situations comfortably.
  
• Learning on the Fly: Learns quickly when facing new problems; a relentless and versatile learner; open to change; analyzes both successes and failures for clues to improvement; experiments and will try anything to find solutions; enjoys the challenge of unfamiliar tasks; quickly grasps the essence and the underlying structure of anything.
  

Our Competencies for All People Managers

• Strategic Agility: Sees ahead clearly; can anticipate future consequences and trends accurately; has broad knowledge and perspective; is future oriented; can articulately paint credible pictures and visions of possibilities and likelihoods; can create competitive and breakthrough strategies and plans.
  
• Developing Direct Reports and Others: Provides challenging and stretching tasks and assignments; holds frequent development discussions; is aware of each person's career goals; constructs compelling development plans and executes them; pushes people to accept developmental moves; will take on those who need help and further development; cooperates with the developmental system in the organization; is a people builder.
  
• Building Effective Teams: Blends people into teams when needed; creates strong morale
  and spirit in his/her team; shares wins and successes; fosters open dialogue; lets people finish and be responsible for their work; defines success in terms of the whole team; creates a feeling of belonging in the team.
  

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