Material Costing Manager (Footwear) - Up to 110M

Are you a strategic leader with a deep understanding of footwear materials and a knack for negotiation? We're seeking a highly motivated Material Costing Manager to lead our upper materials costing efforts.

Responsibilities

• Strategy and Development:

- Define a competitive costing strategy, drive to implement comprehensive and efficient material costing processes with Dev-Com, Material team, Shoes Costing internally and T2 suppliers externally.

• General and Task Management:

- Manages and delivers upper material pricing according to each brand’s critical path and margin requirements.

- Actively engage design, development, dev-com, material team and shoes costing teams, drive a collaborative process to optimize material costs against performance goals.

- Collecting raw material marketing price and manufacture cost information, analyze and evaluate raw material prices and LOP costs from T2 suppliers.

- Review T2 cost analysis details, negotiate seasonal price with T2 suppliers for material cost, LOP, ensure the final material prices are competitive.

- Work closely with material team and shoes Costing to support company to achieve margin target.

- Build strong partnerships with suppliers, establish performance benchmark, define opportunities and collaborate with Dev-Com and Material team for improvement.

• People Management:

- Manage and coach Material Costing team by material category.

- Set aligned OKRs (Objective/Key Results) by brand, review and assess ongoing performance with other team members.

- Develop and maintain strong relationships with Shoes Costing team.

Education/Certifications:

• University degree or above

Work Experience:

• 8+ years of relevant footwear experience in costing and/or manufacturing with

Skills/Competencies:

All leaders at Deckers Brands must be able to demonstrate our leadership behaviors –

• Come As You Are

• Better Together

• Commit To Create

• Own It

• Do Good and Do Great

• Fluency in English spoken and written

• Strong price negotiation skills

• Results orientated with the ability to plan and deliver against deadlines

• Knowledge of shoes material and costing.

• Strong Microsoft systems knowledge & skills including advanced Excel

• Product Lifecyle Management System experience

• High degree of integrity

• Must be able to see, hear, speak and write clearly in order to communicate with employees and/or other customers.

• Manual dexterity required.