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Costing & Merchandise Planning Manager

Manhattan Beach, CA💼 Full-time💰 $85,000–$85,000🗓 2026-08-19 → 2026-09-26

Core

Develop and implement apparel cost control procedures and policies to enhance organizational costing performance and support merchandise planning needs.

Role type

Manager, Costing & Merchandise Planning

Builds

Apparel product development and production processes

Domain

Apparel / Footwear

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work

Required skills

Costing management, margin analysis, IMU/margin calculations, target FOB calculation, material cost analysis, vendor assessment, Excel proficiency, financial reporting

Preferred skills

Apparel industry experience, development/costing experience, negotiation skills

Technologies

Excel, Flex

Responsibilities

Develop and deliver costing processes and tools to development teams, conduct cost comparisons by gender and silhouette, collaborate with materials team on seasonal volume projections, partner with merchandisers to develop seasonal margin targets, negotiate MOQ/MCQ and cost standards, maintain system FOB and pre-cost files, provide high-level analysis and business reports to senior leadership

Seniority

Manager, hands-on IC

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