Purpose of Job
- This role serves as the strategic bridge between Finance and the Supply Chain (Procurement, Contracted Manufacturing, Logistics), driving holistic cost optimization and efficiency through TCO modelling, investment decision support and cost analytics, ensuring company sustainable profit growth and operation compliance.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities
- 1. Drive the TCO (total cost ownership) project rollout and streamline strategic cost management mechanism
- Guide TCO task owners to develop operational roadmap to ensure each milestone’s timely delivery
- Monitor and track the TCO project initiative execution and realization, regular share out the implementation status
- Integrate the cost management mechanism and analytical insights into the sectional review meeting
- 2. Develop and Refine Inflation, Cost Saving and Avoidance Guidance and Governance Process
- Set-up the inflation guidance mechanism
- Develop the cost saving and avoidance operational guidance for rollout
- Lead the cost saving target population, calibration and cascading
- Partnership to drive cost saving pipelines sufficiency and target realization
- 3. Partnership to develop the product “Should Cost” rollout plan and create the database as the guidance and benchmark for RFQ
- Develop the project guiding principle and executable rollout plan
- Align the price quotation breakdown granularity and scope
- Develop the reconciliation guidance to ensure the database reliability
- Validate and reset by volume by price tier
- 4. Lead for the business case financial evaluation and risk assessment
- Evaluate the supply community capital investment for capacity expansion and cost saving initiatives
- Evaluate and dynamic optimize the supply network which react to the product cost difference, tariff and landing cost evolution
- Evaluate the product design optimization, production schedule change, shipment route and frequency optimization proposal
- 5. Ensure Compliance and Control in place, and continue to drive process excellence
- Diagnosis and identify the control weakness and process deficiency and monitor the remediation execution
- Navigate the technology and tools to improve team’s synergy and productivity
Education/Knowledge/Experience
- Minimum request:
- Minimum 10 years of experience in full scope strategy costing analysis role covers in house plant, contract manufactory and logistics FP&A/BP role
- Solid project management experience
- Big 4 or MT combined with MNC background will be plus
- Good communication and business influence skill in both English & Chinese
- Competency:
- A self-starter, who independently looks for where they can add value in a dynamic environment
- Can do attitude with critical thinking and analytical focus, fully engaged from plan to execution in an agile way
- Ability to work autonomously as a key member across finance and cross functional teams
- Demonstrate the mature leadership skills for managing and influencing cross-functional team
- Relevant knowledge demand:
- Solid supply chain operation and finance knowledge
- Strong FP&A and BP skills to drive value-added analysis and influence decision making
- End to end successful costing related project implementation experience
- Familiar with the ERP system (SAP) and sound knowledge of MS Excel,Power BI
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e.l.f. Beauty, Inc. stands with every eye, lip, face and paw. Celebrating the beauty of every eye, lip and face is fundamental to our DNA. It’s in our name and inspires us as a company. We are committed to creating a culture internally – and in the world around us – where all individuals are encouraged to express their truest selves, are empowered to succeed and where we do the right thing for people, the planet and animals. Our deep commitment to inclusive, accessible, cruelty-free beauty has fueled the success of the e.l.f. Cosmetics brand online and at retail since 2004. With the 2020 acquisition of the pioneering clean-beauty brand W3LL People, and the new lifestyle beauty brand Keys Soulcare created with Alicia Keys, we continue to strategically expand our portfolio with brands that support our purpose and values. Our brands are widely available online, and at leading beauty, mass-market, and natural specialty retailers.







