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Cost Engineer

🔥 10 minutes ago

🇻🇳 Vietnam – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟢 Junior

🟡 Mid-level

👷🏻‍♀️ Engineer

🚫👨‍🎓 No degree required

Where this job comes from

Posted on VF Corporation's careers page, not through a job board

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VF Corporation

10,000+ employees

Founded 1899

🏭 Manufacturing

👗 Fashion

🛒 Retail

Manufacturing • Fashion • Retail

VF Corporation is a global leader in branded lifestyle apparel, footwear, and accessories, with a diverse portfolio of iconic brands including The North Face, Vans, and Timberland. The company is committed to sustainability and innovation in its operations and products, aiming to enhance the performance and style of its offerings.

📋 Description

• Develop costing operations and seasonal development costing across VF brands, products, and countries • Partner with sourcing, development, brand, product, material, and planning stakeholders and vendors • Modernize and standardize costing approaches using consistent, data-driven, automated, and efficient processes • Support product sourcing and development teams with design-to-cost initiatives and product cost savings • Champion connectivity and seamless information sharing across vendors and cross-functional stakeholders • Manage seasonal development costing milestones and activities • Lead vendor negotiations using fact-based costing methodologies and product engineering to improve profitability • Provide FOB and landed-cost perspectives to support vendor allocation and sourcing strategies • Ensure adherence to costing processes among costing operations teams and vendors • Track and report key metrics related to performance, efficiency, and transparency • Demonstrate leadership and foster collaboration across the product supply organization • Improve costing productivity and efficiency by eliminating redundancies, automating repetitive tasks, and optimizing processes • Lead and participate in cross-functional initiatives and conduct analyses, producing deliverables in a fast-paced environment

🎯 Requirements

• Minimum 2 years of experience in industrial footwear manufacturing, buying office, or trading company • Ability to understand technical specifications, Bills of Materials, and footwear constructions • Knowledge of fabric weaving, constructions, and different dyeing processes is a plus • Knowledge of embellishments, including print techniques, embroidery, and quilting, is a plus • Experience in sweater knits and accessories is an advantage • Ability to influence and drive consensus • Experience adopting change, business process redesign, or process reengineering • Strong negotiation, analytical, and reasoning skills • Eagerness to learn and adopt new methods, tools, and technologies • Strong Microsoft Office skills, especially Excel and PowerPoint • Good communication skills: diplomatic, open, good listener, direct, succinct • Oral and written fluency in English

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