Design Your Future at PVH

POSITION SUMMARY:

* This position may be based in NYC, Amsterdam, or Hong Kong.

The key focus of this role is to develop and improve end-to end costing processes and tools with global stakeholders, mitigate risk and drive profitability. This role will drive and identify opportunities for cost optimization and support business teams in realizing benefits. This individual will bring both strategic and operational experience in costing and raw materials with the ability to work with global leadership and collaborate across multiple internal and external stakeholders.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES/ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Profitability: Develop and improve end-to-end costing process and tools for PVH in partnership with stakeholders (e.g. Tech). Identify and define initiatives for cost optimization and material management.
• Business Solutions Development: Drive business requirements and solution design for costing process, profitability reporting and raw material management. Steer and influence cross functional teams to define business case development and benefits realization.
• Analytics: Define and Align KPI’s with global business stakeholders to identify opportunities to improve profitability through cost drivers, open costing, raw materials quotations, global vendor allocation and landed costs optimization. Drive creation of global profitability dashboards with business stakeholders and secure implementation and training for these tools.
• Purchasing Guidance: Evolve and Own the internal tool for macro guidance on commodities, cost drivers, and recommendations on purchasing. Responsible for securing understanding of macro guidance tool in organization and guiding various functions in using macro guidance from goal setting to cost negotiations.
• Raw Material Strategy: Create raw material data foundation, system solution, and reporting. Drive L2 strategy creation and follow up in collaboration with Traceability, Corporate Responsibility, Supply & Raw Material teams.
• Supplier Tiering and Scorecarding Program: Initiate and drive L2 supplier tiering program creation across all brands & regions and define the right metrics to measure progress.
• Connectivity: Foster collaboration and information sharing with various functions from Supply, Finance, Global Merch, Tech, Data analytics to achieve costing and raw material management initiatives

INTERNAL & EXTERNAL CONTACTS

Internal & External Contacts: 

• Work across all brands, functions and regions
• Garment vendors and material suppliers and other external sources as relevant (e.g. macro cost data providers, tools / system vendors and manufacturing experts)
• Oversea traveling is required

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE

Education & Experience:

Experience

• At least 10 years of experience in relation to apparel, textile manufacturing, raw material, sourcing or retail industry with costing, consulting, or industrial engineering related area.
• Function knowledge on global manufacturing practices and costing preferred.
• Managing and implementing process or efficiency improvement projects and initiatives is preferred.
• Familiar with working with data and analytics.
• Prior working experience with global matrix organization is preferred. 

Education

• Bachelor’s degree (or higher) in Textile, Business Administration or Industrial Engineering.
• Graduate or professional qualifications in a related area of study are highly preferred.

Skills:

• Strategic mindset and results driven
• Experience with analytics, modeling and simulation
• Strong analytical, reasoning and problem-solving skills
• Ability to create and operationalize data-driven processes
• Being agile and able to adapt to changes
• Strong communication and influencing skills: diplomatic, open-minded, good-listener
• Good commercial and financial acumen
• Values of integrity and adherence of highest ethical standards non-negotiable

* This position may be based in NYC, Amsterdam, or Hong Kong.

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