Senior Footwear Cost Engineer

ARC'TERYX • Portland, OR

2d • $82,000 - $113,000 • Onsite

About The Position

As our Senior Footwear Cost Engineer, you will ensure every product meets the high performance and quality standards that our athletes deserve, while ensuring we hit or exceed our margin targets. You will be an integral member of our product creation team, and will influence the creation and manufacturing of all new models by ensuring margin and FOB targets are set at the beginning of the product creation process, reviewing cost breakdown sheets at each critical date, and providing suggestions accordingly. You will collaborate with your Arc’teryx, Tier 1 and Tier 2 counterparts in Asia to optimize manufacturing costs, and work with our Sourcing and Materials team to ensure our sourcing strategy and financial targets are aligned. You will create “cheat sheets” and other “self-service” tools and ensure critical steps in our costing process are aligned with our corporate calendar. This role is based out of our Portland office. Candidates must be eligible to work in the US.

Requirements

• At least five years’ experience in cost engineering in the footwear industry, ideally with exposure to manufacturing environments in Asia
• Can independently provide suggestions and ideas for improving margins.
• Strong influencing skills, with the ability to drive alignment across diverse cross-functional stakeholders
• Sets a clear vision, aligns your team around common objectives, and foster commitment to these objectives
• Basic knowledge of footwear construction, foams and rubbers, manufacturing, and materials
• Excellent communication skills - interpersonal, written and verbal
• Proactive in identifying the root cause of issues and developing solutions
• Remains highly flexible and adaptable when faced with ambiguity
• Effectively balance autonomy and collaboration
• Seeks the best (sometimes not the easiest) solutions

Responsibilities

• Ensuring teams set model-level FOB targets at the beginning of the season
• Reviewing CBDs at each critical stage of the product creation process
• Providing suggestions on all models to improve margin
• Collaborating with the Materials Design and Development to ensure our upper materials strategy is aligned against costing targets.
• Collaborating with our Engineering teams in both Portland and Asia to ensure quoted labor and overhead costs for every process are in line with expectations
• Fostering deep, collaborative partnerships with Tier 1 and Tier 2 partners to ensure Arc’teryx's standards and processes are agreed upon and followed.
• Leveraging your functional expertise to educate, coach and mentor others
• Continuously learn and monitor processes in manufacturing to search for efficiency improvements opportunities
• Developing and/or identifying the costing tools and processes need to lead us into the digital future
• Coaching and mentoring our full product creation team
• Evolving our costing processes to ensure we are well positioned for our next phase of growth

Benefits

• Extended health, dental, and vision coverage, including mental health support, fertility benefits, and a 24/7 Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
• Immediately vested 401(k) retirement savings plan matching, eligibility for Arc'teryx Annual Incentive Plan and access to Employee Stock Purchase program (ESPP) where applicable.
• Paid time off and No Wasted Day program (dedicated paid days to get outside & explore).
• Parental leave for birthing and on-birthing parents, including an option to ease the transition back to work.
• Professional development opportunities, Arc'teryx Academies (outdoor skill-building events), Employee Belonging Councils, and access to employee discounts and Pro Deals (exclusive discounted pricing on gear).

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed