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Manager, Product Costing

Remote:

Full Remote

Contract:

Full time

Salary:

12 - 12K yearly

Experience:

Mid-level (2-5 years)

Work from:

India

Offer summary

Qualifications:

Strong knowledge of manufacturing in apparel industry, Understanding of Gap Inc. CoBC protocols, Basic knowledge of LEAN and 6 Sigma, Knowledge of product cost drivers, Ability to provide analysis and recommendations.

Key responsabilities:

Simplifying costing process with suppliers
Establishing transparent costing frameworks
Supporting training materials development
Tracking factory productivity metrics
Creating competitive cost matrices

Gap Inc. Retail (Super / Hypermarket) XLarge https://www.gapinc.com/

10001 Employees

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Job description

About the Role

Support in setting strategic direction for costing to ensure the simplifying the costing process & getting costing transparency with supplier. He/she performs work and supports the Senior Manager / Director with the clear objective of setting up transparent costing with vendor & support in costing negotiations process.

What You'll Do

Simplifying the whole costing process & establishing transparent costing with suppliers
Support in setting up business allocation decision based on product family
Improve the AUC margin expectations through key levers product strategy, man machine ratio, factory efficiency, labor cost and material optimization with the aim to deliver product value to the consumer.
Support in setting up costing frameworks, standards and tools that enable transparent, fact based costing with suppliers
Explore & develop training materials for both Gap internal staffs & external vendors/factories.
Establish an appropriate governance for cost validation through factory auditing, material ordering tracking, benchmarking process
Support in maintaining best manufacturing benchmarking processes Library across all product Category.
Supporting in creating factory level/country level cost competitive matrix.
Explore & develop new training tools and training materials for both Gap internal staffs & external vendors/factories.
Supports and tracks key factory productivity metrics including SMV and Y/Y values.
Benchmarks best practice manufacturing methods globally.

Who You Are

Strong knowledge of manufacturing within the apparel/non-apparel industry
Thorough understanding of Gap Inc. CoBC protocols.
Basic knowledge of LEAN, 6 Sigma principles, Quality, Sustainability, Manufacturing processes, PMTS, CAD)
Strong knowledge of product cost drivers(i.e. Macro factors which influence the business decisions)
Solid industry knowledge including market trends for new vendor sourcing and development
Ability to create reports, provide analysis and recommendations to improve productivity & efficiency
Communication skills– both written and verbal – in English and local language
Strong negotiations skill, risk management and trouble shooting skills; works proactively
Ability to influence all levels of internal; & external supplier management
Supervision, training and staff learning development skills
Planning, scheduling and reporting strengths