Global Costing Manager - Footwear

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.

The Costing Manager – Footwear is responsible for executing the most profitable and competitive costing strategies across apparel. Develops and implements policies, processes, and procedures designed to facilitate the best strategic and seasonal costing that allows the optimum price/value equation. Leads team that coordinates efforts with factories, costing and development teams, and other functional teams.

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.
   

YOU ARE

• Requires strong leadership, influencing, and interpersonal skills to navigate costing teams through complex situations and objectives.
• Professionalism/Interpersonal skills – clear and concise business communication; ability to influence others, comfortable interacting with customers, sales reps and
• Possess excellent analysis and problem-solving skills. Requires ability to troubleshoot, make difficult decisions independently, operate autonomously, manage multiple deadlines, and work effectively under pressure. Proven ability to manage and/or influence people, teams and projects.
• Creates a high-performance culture by setting clear performance objectives,
  providing ongoing feedback, and developing talent to build new skills and
  capabilities.
• Drives team engagement and promotes an inclusive work environment using
  effective communication, team building, and collaboration practices.
• Maintains efficient operations in compliance with regulations, policies, and
  safety standards.
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, including intermediate experience
  using Excel to create spreadsheets, charts and pivot tables
• Demonstrate initiative and strong business knowledge.
• Translates company strategy into functional and team goals, monitors progress,
  removes barriers, and identifies and allocates resources. Acts as a change
  catalyst to meet evolving business needs. This may include organizational, financial, and labor/cost management.

YOU HAVE

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree, or applicable certification or equivalent experience.
• SAP experience preferred
• 5+ years in costing, sourcing, or production type work experience in progressively responsible positions
• Experience managing individual contributors and a department.
• 3+ years of costing management experience preferred.
• 3+ years of footwear costing experience preferred.

This job description is not meant to be an all-inclusive list of duties and responsibilities, but constitutes a general definition of the position's scope and function in the company. 

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 is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities. https://www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2023-06/22-088_EEOC_KnowYourRights6.12.pdf. If you need reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please notify your recruiter.

At Columbia Sportswear Company, we’re proud to offer regular full-time employees a benefits package that includes a variety of services and products to help make your life and work more rewarding. Our benefit programs contribute to overall employee well-being by aligning those programs with the fundamental elements of well-being: physical, social/emotional, financial, career and community. Benefits that can protect your family’s financial future and help you save money through our 401k plan plus a generous company match. Columbia offers medical, dental, vision, life Insurance, disability, flexible spending accounts, health savings account, and an assortment of voluntary benefit offerings (accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity, and legal services). In addition, Columbia offers EAP + which is free and confidential 24/7/365 counseling services. We have extensive wellness benefits, employee discounts and a generous time off program available.

If you need an accommodation/adjustment to successfully complete and submit your application, please reach out to [email protected] with the Subject: Applicant Assistance Requested.