Zurich
Senior Lead - Footwear Costing
- 25 December 2025
- 100%
- Zurich
Job summary
Join our dynamic footwear team in Zurich, driving cost strategy. Enjoy a collaborative environment with growth opportunities!
Tasks
- Execute and evolve footwear costing strategies aligned with global direction.
- Integrate costing into all product creation milestones for efficiency.
- Develop tools and dashboards, ensuring data quality and accuracy.
Skills
- University degree in relevant field with 5+ years in footwear costing.
- Strong analytical skills with Excel and PowerPoint proficiency.
- Effective communicator, adaptable in fast-paced environments.
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About the job
In short
The Senior Lead_Footwear Costing Strategy & Margin Governance is responsible for shaping the Brand’s footwear costing strategy and enterprise margin governance across the entire product creation lifecycle.Acting as a strategic business partner to the creation leadership, the role drives cost transparency, margin optimization, and governance excellence by integrating product, innovation, sustainability, sourcing, and finance perspectives into executive decision-making.Reporting to the Head of Footwear Costing, the Senior Lead is responsible to establishes the creation Costing operating model, governance standards, and strategic direction for footwear costing while enabling profitable and sustainable growth through fact-based decision making.
Your Mission
- Shape and continuously evolve the Brand’s creation footwear costing strategy andoperating model.
- Lead end-to-end margin governance from target margin setting through target FOB,product creation cross functions
- Supporting Costing governance frameworks, costing standards, decision rights, andbest practices across the global footwear organization.
- Translate business strategy into actionable costing and profitability recommendations.
- Provide executive-level business cases and financial insights that support productinvestment, portfolio optimization, and long-term profitability.
- Own global costing methodologies, assumptions, tools, dashboards, and reportingstandards.
- Drive digital transformation, automation, and continuous improvement of costingprocesses.
- Ensure data integrity, transparency, and a single source of truth for costing andmargin reporting.
- Influence cross-functional leaders to align commercial ambition with financial performance.
- Coach and develop costing capability while strengthening financial literacy acrossProduct Creation.
- Deliver sustainable margin improvement while enabling innovation and sustainabilityambitions.
- Strengthen executive decision quality through robust financial analysis and scenariomodeling.
- Build scalable governance that supports long-term competitiveness and profitablegrowth
Your story
- University degree in Business, Economics, Finance, Engineering, or a related field, with a strong passion for value engineering.
- 8+ 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).
About the 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.
