Lead - Footwear Costing

Laceless Design; Zürich; Vor Ort; CHF 90.000 - 120.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Laceless Design in Zurich is looking for a Lead Footwear Costing to execute the footwear costing strategy. The successful candidate will partner with various teams to integrate costing throughout the product creation process, ensuring data quality and sound decision-making.

This role requires a university degree in Business or a related field and a minimum of 5 years experience in footwear costing or related areas. Strong analytical skills and proficiency in Excel are essential for this role.

Qualifikationen

• 5+ years experience in footwear costing or product economics.
• Strong understanding of footwear manufacturing processes.
• Advanced analytical capability with proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint.

Aufgaben

• Execute and evolve footwear costing strategy in Zurich.
• Develop costing tools, ensuring data quality and version control.
• Deliver reliable product cost and margin reporting.

Kenntnisse

Footwear costing

Sourcing

Supply chain finance

Presentation skills

Data analysis

Ausbildung

University degree in Business, Economics, Finance, Engineering, or a related field

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

Jobbeschreibung

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.

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).