Senior Lead - Footwear Costing

Description du poste

In short: This role executes the Brand’s footwear costing strategy in Zurich, ensuring consistent, fact-based cost and margin management across the product creation lifecycle. Acting as a strategic partner to cross-functional teams, the Lead – Footwear Costing translates global costing direction into robust processes, tools, and decision-ready insights that enable profitable growth. The role reports to the Head of Footwear Costing, who defines the global footwear costing strategy and operating model and provides executive-level strategic direction and governance for the global footwear costing function Your Mission: - Execute and continuously evolve the footwear costing strategy and operating model in Zurich, in line with the direction set by the Head of Footwear Costing. - Embed end-to-end costing into all key product creation milestones, from early concept through commercialization. - Own and develop costing tools, templates, dashboards, and core assumptions, ensuring data quality, version control, and a single source of truth. - Partner closely with Product Strategy, Design, Development, Materials, Sustainability, Sourcing, Finance, and Controlling to integrate costing early and effectively. - Deliver reliable product cost and margin reporting, ensuring timelines, quality, and decision gates are met. - Represent the costing function with clarity and credibility, strengthening cost literacy and decision quality across creation functional teams Attributes of a successful candidate: - Ownership: Takes accountability for cost and margin outcomes across the footwear creation process. - Fact-based & Structured: Brings rigor, transparency, and clarity to cost discussions and decision-making. - Collaborative: Builds strong partnerships across cross-functional teams which is the key for success. - Adaptable & Resilient: Thrives in dynamic environments with shifting priorities and complexity. Your Story: - University degree in Business, Economics, Finance, Engineering, or a related field, with a strong passion for value engineering. - 5+ years of experience in footwear costing, sourcing, supply chain finance, or product economics within a premium or performance footwear brand. - Strong understanding of footwear construction, manufacturing processes, and key cost drivers. - Proven experience owning or driving costing processes and tools in a cross-functional environment. - Advanced analytical capability with strong proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint, combined with sound commercial judgment and high integrity. - Adaptable, resilient, and effective communicator in fast-paced, cross-cultural environments. - Fluent in English (written and spoken). Your Team: The Footwear Costing Team supports the Brand by delivering fact-based cost transparency, margin discipline, and decision-ready insights across the end-to-end footwear creation process.