Sr Analyst, Costing Excellence (11-month contract)
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About the Role
Managing Product costing while working closely with internal PD counterpart & with Merchandising teams of the Vendors. As part of product development team s/he will also be providing support in identifying opportunities of cost saving through product reengineering, cost standardization, building up costing library.What You'll Do
Downloads tech pack and BOM
Works with vendors for product costing at key costing milestone
Following up with vendor on system-updates
Ensure Systems are updated with costs and details
Continuously update standards and tools that enable transparent, fact-based costing with suppliers
Optimize the cost through standardization, benchmarking, product reengineering
Supporting in creating factory level/country level cost competitive matrix
Resolves issues within a timely manner while working to continuously improve and create internal and external processes and procedures
Who You Are
Merchandise Sourcing Knowledge – Experience in product costing with offshore production exposure; in largesized buying office or trading company
Product Knowledge – Should know yield management and about product construction & its an added advantage if knows SMV based costing
Drive Results – Very strong negotiations skills & ability to analyze situations and proactively suggest solutions to meet deliverables
Learning Agility & Experimentation – demonstrates eagerness to learn and explore new ways of approaching goals
Effective Communicator & Team Player – proven capability to communicate effectively, verbal and written