Footwear Costing Specialist - Fixed term contract (6 months - Jan to Aug)
On
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Posted on Jul 18, 2025
At a Glance:
The world's fastest growing sports company is seeking a Footwear Costing Specialist to join our Costing team in Vietnam. Based in the Ho Chi Minh office, you will manage global footwear costing, including cost forecasting, pre-cost analysis, and seasonal price negotiations. As a result, you will identify cost-cutting opportunities, resolve issues during execution, and develop valuable costing SOPs.
Your Team:
We, the Costing team, collaborates closely and cross-functionally with teams from development, materials, finance, production, and supply chain, to identify opportunities in increasing company margins.
Your Mission:
- Ensure CBD from On’s manufacturing partners correct and in line with On’s standards
- Document and manage inputs to product costing, such as raw material prices, material waste impacts, tooling cost and amortization, construction/labor costs overhead matrix
- Partner with product management, material, and development teams through product development cycle and line reviews, to achieve margin goals
- Support Costing Manager to conduct seasonal price negotiations with suppliers for manufacturing, component, and process costs
- Collaborate with supply chain team on product volume forecasts, identify potential bottlenecks and actively search for volume discount opportunities
- Maintain accurate and complete costing data on PLM systems
Your Story:
- Bachelor's degree in business, economics, accounting, engineering
- 5+ years' experience in manufacturing, textile, footwear, or finance industry
- Good commercial sense, analysis skills, passion for numbers and engineering
- Proficiency in Excel. Experience with PLMs and digital costing tools is a plus
- Strong price negotiation skills and impeccable integrity
- Good interpersonal and communication skills in a fast-paced environment
- Fluent in English spoken and written; Chinese (Mandarin) is a plus