Senior Director Footwear Cost Engineering

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NIKE, Inc. does more than outfit the world’s best athletes. It is a place to explore potential, obliterate boundaries and push out the edges of what can be. The company looks for people who can grow, think, dream and create. Its culture thrives by embracing diversity and rewarding imagination. The brand seeks achievers, leaders and visionaries. At NIKE, Inc. it’s about each person bringing skills and passion to a challenging and constantly evolving game.

The first spark of a product idea sets the NIKE, Inc. Product team into motion. The team of developers, testers, engineers, designers and managers obsess over Nike’s iconic silhouettes and create groundbreaking new styles. They collaborate, ideate and refine products’ construction, fit and materials. They maintain a keen understanding of consumer and market trends. They skillfully operate at the intersection of buyer needs, technical feasibility and business objectives. And they work lockstep with Merchandising, Design, Manufacturing and others to produce the final result: products that reflect the soul of sport and inspire athletes to reach new levels of performance.

Footwear Cost Engineering is key to creating value for both NIKE and its Manufacturing partners through a driver-based costing platform that provides actionable and consistent transparency to the costs of developing and manufacturing of Nike Footwear across the source base. Footwear Cost Engineering is highly cross-functional considering and reflecting inputs across Footwear Development, Planning, Sourcing, Engineering, Finance as well as NIKE’s Manufacturing partners tactically executing the seasonal costing process and strategically evolving costing methodologies. The Footwear Cost Engineering function maintains strong and collaborative relationships with aforementioned stakeholders.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

As the Senior Director Cost Engineering & Standards, you will lead and inspire a large team of Footwear Cost Engineering Subject-Matter-Experts across Asia. You are responsible for the efficient and effective execution of the Footwear Costing process, the development of costing strategies and standards, the communication of Footwear Costing related insights and outcomes to NIKE internal stakeholders e.g. Product Creation, Engineering, Sourcing, Finance and NIKE’s Manufacturing partners. You are expected to cultivate trust based and collaborative partnerships with NIKE internal stakeholders and NIKE’s Manufacturing partners. As a motivational leader, your responsibilities also include recruiting, training and developing Subject-Matter-Experts. Given the unique cross-functional nature of the role, you are expected to contribute to strategy development and deployment across NIKE’s Footwear source base.

WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON

Your teams will work with Product Creation to inform and facilitate decisions throughout the product creation process delivering against product briefs and NIKE’s profitability expectations. Footwear Cost Engineering will work closely with Product Creation, Engineering, Planning, and Manufacturing Partners to actively manage cost drivers in the Bill of Labor and Bill of Materials. This includes detailed review/analysis of documentation and actual manufacturing processes for complete, accurate and optimized product costing. You will lead and influence strategic costing and optimization discussions with NIKE’s Manufacturing Partners throughout all phases of creation and production. You will clearly and concisely communicate costing strategies leveraging engineering and manufacturing knowledge for product or process improvements. Further, you will help drive the continuous improvement of NIKE’s strategic costing framework including oversight and resourcing for functional and program initiatives turning costing and manufacturing concepts into reality.

You will also liaise closely with key stakeholders across NIKE’s Finance organization translating financial planning guardrails into costing strategies and mechanisms. You are expected to have strong financial acumen and a strong working knowledge of NIKE’s financial planning processes and financial metrics which are impacted by Footwear Costing strategies and the execution of the Footwear Costing process. Effective and concise communication of costing strategies and costing metrics to key Finance stakeholders is key to being successful in the role. You are a key stakeholder in managing NIKE’s financial performance as well as the financial health of NIKE’s Manufacturing partners.

WHO YOU WILL WORK WITH

You will directly report to the VP of Global Supply Chain Finance and indirectly to the VP of Asia Footwear Manufacturing. You will be an integral member of the leadership teams of both functions.

WHAT YOU BRING
- Bachelor's degree with a focus in Finance, Engineering, Business Management, Operations or related field; MBA or any other advanced degree are