Professional, Costing

Values & Innovation

At Under Armour, we are committed to empowering those who strive for more, and the company's values - Act Sustainably, Celebrate the Wins, Fight on Together, Love Athletes and Stand for Equality - serve as both a roadmap for our teams and the qualities expected of every teammate.

Our Values define and unite us, the beliefs that are the red thread that connects everyone at Under Armour. Our values are rallying cries, reminding us why we're here, and fueling everything we do.

Our pursuit of better begins with innovation and with our team's mission of being the best. With us, you get the freedom to go further - no matter your role. That means developing, delivering, and selling the state-of-the-art products and digital tools that make top performers even better.

Purpose of Role

The purpose of this role to monitor for on time cost sheet submission and validate product costs through cost benchmarking on UA apparel product.

Teammates in this role will use their industry knowledge to ensure Under Armour is paying a competitive price for its apparel products by reviewing cost breakdowns and BOMs.  This role enables the broader costing organization to prioritize actionable areas and optimize profitability.

Your Impact

1. Manage seasonal routine of Cost study to ensure costing consistency, cost improvement across cost components, across seasons, able to apply advanced knowledge of product costing to provide saving options to Ops. team in the US
2. Day to day operation on cost sheet submission tracking with vendor and Cost sheet management in the system for manual change status to ensure costing readiness for PO issuance.
3. Daily report download and refresh internal report for seasonal margin review and identify cost improvement opportunities.
4. Act as gatekeeper to ensure that all costing frameworks, standards, processes, policies and systems are understood and consistently applied by vendor base.
5. Apply sewing operation experience to Identify for continuous improvement for cost opportunities in any cost driver/components, in particular related to SMV for cost optimization.
6. Provide costing leadership with insights, observation on cost driver/components, trends and vendor competitiveness using systematic costing and benchmarking approach.
7. Effective communication skill for style level negotiation
8. Support and execute for global costing strategy or any ad hoc request.

Qualifications

• Diploma or above
• 2+ years of progressive work in the garment or textile industry
• Good command of written and spoken English
• Proficient in MS Office applications especially in Excel and common software
• Detail oriented and act as a team player

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