Manager, Costing Excellence (India)

About the Role Support in setting strategic direction for costing to ensure the simplifying the costing process & getting costing transparency with supplier. He/she performs work and supports the Senior Manager / Director with the clear objective of setting up transparent costing with vendor & support in costing SMV negotiations & validation process. What Youll Do

• Simplifying the whole costing process & establishing transparent costing with suppliers.
• Improve the cost through key levers product strategy, man machine ratio, factory efficiency, labor cost and material optimization with the aim to deliver product value to the consumer.
• Establish and continuously update SMV based library tools that enable transparent, fact-based costing with suppliers.
• Should able to establish SMV validation process to make sure SMV used in Production are in aligned with SMV used at costing stage.
• Work with suppliers to to bring them on SMV based costing journey aswell work with them in validating & aligning on the Cut to Pack SMV.
• Establish an appropriate governance for cost validation through standardization, benchmarking.
• Supporting in creating factory level/country level cost competitive matrix.
• Explore & develop new training tools and training materials for both Gap internal staffs & external vendors/factories.
• Continuously work with Vendors & ME team on improving cost through SMV reduction.
• Supports and tracks key factory productivity metrics by working with Manufacturing Excellence team.
• Explore & develop training materials for both Gap internal staffs & external vendors/factories.

• Strong knowledge of apparel manufacturing.
• Should have strong understanding of Apparel constructions & he should be strong in SMV & must have a PMTS knowledge preferably certified in GSD.
• Strong knowledge of product cost drivers (i.e. Macro factors which drives the cost).
• Ability to create reports, provide analysis and recommendations to improve productivity & efficiency.
• Communication skills- both written and verbal -English.
• Strong negotiations & Driving results skill, risk management and trouble shooting skills; works proactively.
• Ability to influence all levels internal & external supplier management.
• Planning, scheduling, and reporting strengths.
• University graduate or degree in Industrial. Engineering or Textile or Garment (Industry related) or equivalent work experience.
• 8-10 years business experience with 3 years in management role in managing end to end costing.
• Staff management and supervising experience across broad geographical area.