Department: Sourcing
Reports to: Sourcing Manager
Location: Vietnam / Taiwan
Your Opportunity at ARC’TERYX:
As the Senior Costing Specialist - Footwear, you partner with a team of highly qualified sourcing, quality, development, production and raw materials professionals to achieve business objectives, collaborating across the Arc’teryx Headquarters and the Arc’teryx Hong Kong Sourcing Office.
You will be working with a well-developed base of highly professional long term vendor partners, always looking for creative solutions and processes to improve speed, optimize cost, support margin, and best utilize supply chain capabilities and efficiencies.
Meet Your Future Team:
Our Asia-based teams are cross functional groups whose focus is on optimizing responsiveness to market with quality product, while driving towards cash flow and inventory targets.
We are a small but highly versatile team of problem solvers and process makers, driving collaborative partnership between Arc’teryx Headquarters, our partners, and the Hong Kong Office team. We support the building and execution of a sustainable global sourcing strategy that enables us to deliver exceptional product at the right place, with the right quality and cost, and on-time.
If you were the Senior Costing Specialist for Arcteryx now, here are some of the core activities you would be doing:
- Product costing, analyzing quotes and negotiating to meet target costs while maintaining quality standards.
- Evaluating alternative materials, construction methods, and manufacturing processes to reduce costs.
- Conducting cost breakdowns (materials, labor, tooling, packaging, freight, tariffs, etc.).
- Ensuring seasonal CBDs are accurate and confirmed on a timely basis.
- Meeting key development stages’ CBD, Buy ready, monthly Buy FOB list and Tool Agreement deadlines
- Partnering with product development, design, sourcing, engineering teams and suppliers to identify costing savings and ensure cost-effective product creation.
- Working closely with sourcing and partners to identify cost drivers and implement efficiency improvements.
- Liaising with cross-functional teams to assess production feasibility and scalability.
- Reviewing and negotiating factory cost sheets to align with brand pricing strategies.
- Conducting supplier visits (domestic & oversea) to assess capabilities and validating cost structures.
- Monitoring global market trends (raw materials, labor rates, tariffs, trade regulations) affecting costs.
- Refining costing methodologies to improve accuracy and efficiency.
- Tracking cost variances and providing actionable insights to leadership.
- Maintaining a cost database for benchmarking and historical analysis.
- Ensuring costing aligns with sustainability, ethical sourcing, and compliance standards.
- Identifying risks (supply chain disruptions, material shortages, geopolitical factors) and proposing mitigation strategies.
Cost Analysis:
Cross-Functional Collaboration:
Partner Engagement:
Process Improvement & Reporting:
Compliance & Risk Management:
Here are some of things you could be working on in the future:
- Supporting the Sourcing Manager to drive partnership with our partners to deliver best-in-class performance
- Researching and assessing new partners to support the business and capacity growth and driving continuous improvement
- Working more in-depth with current and future vendor base to propose continuous improvements on partner level for efficiency and cost improvements.
- Building a talent pipeline to support long term workload increase and business growth.
Are you our next Senior Costing Specialist for the Arcteryx?
- You have a bachelor’s degree in Business, Supply Chain, Engineering, or related field
- You have 5+ years’ experience in footwear costing, manufacturing, or sourcing in a global company
- Experience in technical footwear or sportswear categories is ideal
- You have strong interpersonal skills and can work effectively with internal and external stakeholders of diverse cultural backgrounds
- You have expertise in negotiation, problem solving and multi-tasking.
- You have strong analytical skills with experience in cost modeling. Knowledge of manufacturing processes and supply chain operations
- You are assertive and have a high level of self-initiative,
- You are fluent in English and have strong verbal and written communication skills
- You are able to travel up to 1-2 weeks, per quarter, as required.
- You are proficient in MS Office (Word, Excel, Power Point) and Outlook, and knowledge of ERP & PLM systems is an advantage (e.g., SAP, Centric etc.)
- You have Crispin or similar CAD systems and pattern making knowledge is preferable
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What We Do
Arc’teryx is a global design company based in North Vancouver, B.C. that specializes in technical high-performance outerwear and equipment. We design and manufacture a wide range of mountain sports outdoor apparel and equipment for all conditions and experiences, including mountaineering, ice and rock climbing, skiing, snowboarding, and trail running. Our company is built on a passionate and relentless commitment to design, craftsmanship and performance. We have a unique construction process that enables us to create technical products that can be trusted to perform at the point of extreme need. We are uniquely positioned in our industry as we have our own factory located in New Westminster, BC, which enables us to build products with a meticulous focus on detail and performance. We leverage this manufacturing knowledge and share it with our global partner factories. In the Coast Mountain Range behind our headquarters and design centre in North Vancouver, we field test our products in real world conditions allowing us to create the best-fitting, longest-lasting, highest-performing technical products available. We distribute our outerwear and equipment through more than 3,000 retail locations worldwide, in over 40 countries globally, including 38 branded and outlet stores in Europe, North America and Asia. The company started with six employees in 1989 and now has more than 1000 employees in Canada.
