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Purpose of RoleThe purpose of this role to both validate product specific costs and perform comparative cost analytics and benchmarking across the Under Armour supply base. Teammates in this role will use their industry knowledge and analytic skills to ensure Under Armour is paying a competitive price for its apparel and accessories products by reviewing cost breakdowns, BOMs and macro data. This role enables the broader costing organization to quickly prioritize actionable areas and achieve product margin targets.
Your Impact1/ Manage seasonal routine of Cost study to ensure costing consistency, cost improvement across cost components, across season, able to apply advanced knowledge of product costing to provide saving options to Sourcing Op. in Baltimore.
2/ Cost sheet submission tracking with vendor for on time cost sheet submission and Cost sheet management in the system for manual change status to ensure costing readiness for PO issuance and seasonal margin review.
3/ Support and manage target cost setting and cost exercise for resource, multi-country source for T1 suppliers to develop the cost control mechanism, follow up, data validation and manage the saving tracker to provide insight to manager.
4/ Maintenance of different reports, databases and analytics tools, to increase transparency in costing and to sustain the costing performance and support sourcing strategy.
5/ Act as gatekeeper to ensure that all costing frameworks, standard, process, policies and systems are understood and consistently applied in the region as global.
6/ Identify for continuous improvement for cost opportunities in any cost driver/ components, in particular related to SMV for cost optimization.
7/ Provide costing leadership with insights, observation on cost driver/ components trend and vendor competitiveness using systematic costing and benchmarking approach.
8/Support and execute for global costing strategy or any ad hoc request.
At Under Armour, we are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and teammates without regard to race, color, religion or belief, sex, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information (including characteristics and testing), military and veteran status, family or paternal status and any other characteristic protected by applicable law. Under Armour believes that diversity and inclusion among our teammates is critical to our success as a global company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. Accommodation is available for applicants with disabilities upon request.