Senior Lead - Footwear Costing
Core
Shape footwear costing strategy and enterprise margin governance across the product creation lifecycle, integrating product, innovation, sustainability, sourcing, and finance perspectives.
Role type
Senior Lead, strategic business partner for footwear costing and margin governance
Builds
Global costing methodologies, assumptions, tools, dashboards, and reporting standards
Domain
Footwear industry, product economics, supply chain finance
Deliverable
dashboards & analysis
Required skills
Footwear costing expertise, margin governance, value engineering, cross-functional leadership, financial analysis, scenario modeling, data integrity management, digital transformation, coaching
Preferred skills
None stated
Technologies
Excel, PowerPoint
Responsibilities
Establish creation costing operating model and governance standards; Lead end-to-end margin governance from target setting to FOB; Translate business strategy into actionable costing recommendations; Provide executive-level business cases for product investment; Own global costing methodologies and reporting standards; Drive digital transformation of costing processes; Influence cross-functional leaders on commercial ambition vs. financial performance; Coach costing capability and financial literacy across Product Creation
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with strategic leadership
