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Costing Engineer
Primary Responsibilities/Accountabilities
- Support seasonal style-level cost benchmarking and highlight key cost gaps for team review and follow-up.
- Assist in developing should-cost standards for key cost components using fact-based costing methodologies.
- Identify and track cost improvement opportunities through product engineering, process efficiency, and material utilization analysis.
- Prepare recurring cost analyses and reports to support cost governance and management review routines.
- Support macro cost trend tracking, forecasting inputs, and reconciliation against actual performance.
- Collaborate with internal stakeholders and suppliers to collect cost data, validate assumptions, and maintain costing tools and databases.
INTERNAL & EXTERNAL CONTACTS
Internal Contacts: TH Global Supply teams and relevant cross-functional business partners, as needed.
External Contacts: Tier 1 and Tier 2 suppliers and vendors.
Supervisory Responsibilities
- Indirect: Contributes to cross-functional projects and team initiatives, as assigned.
DECISION MAKING
- Makes routine analytical judgments within established costing frameworks and escalates exceptions or higher-impact decisions to the manager.
RESOURCEFULNESS/CREATIVITY
- Demonstrates curiosity and initiative in learning industry trends, manufacturing methods, and key cost drivers affecting product cost.
- Applies structured problem-solving to support practical, data-based costing solutions.
ENVIRONMENT
- Primarily based in the Vietnam office.
- Travel may be required based on business needs and project involvement.
CORE VALUE
- Embrace PVH's core values: Individuality, Partnership, Passion, Integrity, and Accountability.
Qualifications & Experience
Education & Experience:
- Bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering, Textile Engineering, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, or a related discipline.
- Typically, 2–4 years of relevant experience in apparel manufacturing, industrial engineering, product costing, or supply chain analytics.
- Hands-on experience with work measurement techniques in the apparel industry expected; GSD licensed practitioners will have a strong advantage.
- Exposure to Lean Manufacturing, process improvement, or continuous improvement tools is an advantage.
- Experience working in a multinational or matrix environment is preferred.
Skills
- Strong integrity and commitment to high ethical standards.
- Good communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional stakeholders.
- Strong analytical ability and attention to detail.
- Ability to manage multiple tasks and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
- Advanced Excel skills and comfort working with data analysis and reporting tools required. Familiarity with AI-enabled productivity and data analysis tools is an advantage.
- Effective interpersonal skills to work constructively with internal and external partners.
