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Product Costing Manager

About the Role

Ariat is looking for a Product Costing Manager to join the Supply Chain team. The person in this role will report to the Sr. Director, Supply Chain. This person will be knowledgeable of footwear construction, manufacturing, product costing, and global business management. They will also need to be able to work independently and collaborate proactively with cross functional teams.

You’ll Make a Difference By

Proactive margin improvement - Engage in product development process, identify the linkages between material costs and consumption and how that drives overall FOBs for various styles. Create cost budget and a matrix to support product creation teams in selecting appropriately priced materials/constructions to achieve margin targets
Improved material selection - Attend product design review, detailing meetings, and document opportunities for cost improvement, use those notes to create training curriculum, and train product creation teams on cost improvement opportunities
Creating cost transparency - Lead efforts to improve costs transparency in the areas of labor, overhead, and profit (LOP). Liaise with sourcing offices to gather information on the cost drivers of LOP at each factory. Define approach and processes for working with suppliers to properly allocate LOP to individual products to create improved cost transparency as an input to merchandising’s pricing models.
Product standard cost review - Provide product cost info and validate product standard cost, and analyze variance
Data and Process Efficiency - Document margin management process and narratives, identify improvement opportunities, and drive solutions to automate process and data tools to enhance operations efficiency
Others - Support to strategic Supply Chain initiatives which deliver better margin to Ariat profitability expectations

About You

Bachelor’s degree with a focus in Costing, Engineering, Business Management or related field
Minimum 5 years of relevant experience including Engineering, Development, Industry Engineering, Manufacturing, Product Costing preferred. Related disciplines also acceptable
Knowledge of footwear construction, manufacturing, product costing, and global business management
Work independently and collaborate proactively with cross functional teams
Solving complex challenges and bringing new perspectives to existing processes and solutions
High level of integrity and teamwork, result-oriented
Strong verbal and writing communication skills
High proficiency using MS Excel, Word and PowerPoint
Ability to travel 5-10% of the time

About Ariat

Ariat is an innovative, outdoor global brand with roots in equestrian performance. We develop high quality footwear and apparel for people who ride, work and play outdoors, and care about performance, quality, comfort and style.

The salary range for this position is $95,000 - $105,000 per year.

The salary is determined by the education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities of the applicant, internal equity, and alignment with market data for geographic locations. Ariat in good faith believes that this posted compensation range is accurate for this role at this location at the time of this posting. This range may be modified in the future.

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INDUSTRY

Consumer Product Manufacturing

TEAM SIZE

201-500

LOCATION

Hybrid, based in Union City, CA

DATE POSTED

April 15, 2023