Senior Manager, Costing Business Analytics

Purpose: A key player in Product Development & Sourcing (PD&S) in driving PD&S’s vision to be the Most Agile, Most Competitive, Most Innovative & Most Sustainable PD&S in the industry. Lead the Costing Business Analytics function with a focus on developing and improving dashboards, reports and tools to provide strategic insights on cost drivers to leadership for decision making. Key Responsibilities: Enable PD&S management, BU Costing & Sourcing Operation teams to make informed decisions by providing structured costing analyses and deep dives. In charge of strengthening and achieving optimal product cost and maximize negotiating leverage for adidas products through Costing reporting and analytics. Collect, benchmark, and analyse regional costing data for the respective Liaison Offices (LOs) to drive cost competitiveness and policy improvement. Lead and manage the development and continuous improvement of product costing analytics to ensure Costing requirements and objectives are met to improve Global Costing performance. Identify opportunities and synergies to standardize cross-functional analytics and develop new capabilities; and customize where necessary. Implement and manage new Costing metrics and incorporate into Costing Key Performance Indicator (KPI) Dashboard, update new analytics to relevant counterparts where necessary. Ensure the reliability and accuracy of costing systems to enable operational efficiency, data reporting and analysis. Provide Sourcing Leadership with insights on ad-hoc analytics requests, costing driver developments, and supplier competitiveness using systematic analytics and benchmarking methods. Proactively upskill on industry and costing relevant knowledge, embrace information-sharing to leverage learnings. Provide ongoing coaching to direct reports to continually strengthen the organization. Ensure all sourcing operations and practices fully comply with adidas’ Responsible Sourcing & Purchasing Policy, adidas standards and legal requirements, while managing the relevant processes internally and externally. Role model leadership to foster a culture of Diversity Equity & Inclusion that strives for an inclusive workplace. Key Relationships: PD&S: Sourcing Operations, Costing, Materials, Allocation & Planning, Manufacturing Excellence Business Unit Costing Operations, Global Strategy & Programs, TECH Global Finance: Brand Finance and Sourcing Finance Knowledge Skills and Abilities : Strong knowledge of Sourcing industry, specializing in product costing, product development or production preferrable Strong business acumen with the ability to link costing analytics to business context and decisions Strong analytical skills, problem-solving, solution and customer-oriented Strong project and change management skills Strong presentation, negotiation, influencing, people and communication skills Ability to think critically and provide different perspectives Ability to work independently and drive results Fluent in English (written and spoken) Strong Microsoft office skills Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications: University degree Minimum 7+ years of experience in Multinational Company environment e.g. top tier consulting, project management, fashion, supply chain management background