Manager, Costing - RTW

Michael Kors

About The Position

As the Manager for RTW Costing, you will play a critical role in creating and managing reporting related to costing efforts and divisional margins. You will be responsible for ensuring accuracy in reporting and developing new tools to analyze various strategic initiatives across RTW divisions.

Requirements

A bachelor’s degree
5-7 years of Product Development/Costing experience
Strong acumen for managing large sets of numbers and data
High proficiency in Excel (pivot table, v-lookup, calculated fields)
Strong analytical and computation skills
Adaptability and flexibility- balanced and effective in good and challenging times
The ability to excel in high pressured environment with competing priorities
Strong work ethic and sense of ownership
A detailed oriented and organized mindset
Strong planning and time management skills

Responsibilities

Support on all tasks related to cost, margin and analysis
Top level reporting for upper management, including VPs and SVPs
Compiling and vetting cost breakdown data
Stay on top of milestones for all Apparel divisions and manage time & action accordingly
Communicate costing information to internal partners such as Design, Merchandising and Sales
Data entry and maintenance in various systems for costing and HTS (e.g. PLM and RLM)
Document cost trend and savings for the division
Ad hoc analysis regarding costs and margin
Partner with PD/Costing team to capture the most up-to-date information at each calendar milestone
Review, approve, and track invoicing for seasonal sample requests
Where possible, come up with process improvement and standardization opportunity