Product Costing Manager

About the Role

The Product Costing Manager role will be based in our Ariat Headquarters in San Leandro California. This role reports to the Sr. Dir, Supply Chain Operations, and Global Sourcing. As a Product Costing Manager, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring accurate cost analysis for our products throughout their lifecycle, from initial development to final production. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including finance, procurement, and manufacturing, to optimize costs, support pricing strategies, and drive profitability.

You’ll Make a Difference By

• Engaging in the product development process
• Identifying the linkages between material costs/ consumptions and how that drives overall FOBs for various styles
• Creating a cost budget and a matrix to support product creation teams in setting up target prices
• Selecting appropriately priced materials/constructions to achieve margin targets
• Attending product design reviews, detail meetings, and documenting product opportunities for cost improvement
• Using notes to create training curriculum and train product creation teams on cost improvement opportunities.
• Leading efforts to improve cost transparency in the areas of labor, overhead, and profit (LOP)
• Liaising with sourcing offices to gather information on the cost drivers of LOP at each factory
• Defining approaches and processes for working with suppliers to properly allocate LOP to individual products to create improved cost transparency as an input to merchandising’s pricing models
• Providing product cost info and validating product standard cost
• Analyzing variance to support the finance standard cost reroll process
• Documenting margin management process and narratives
• Identifying improvement opportunities
• Driving solutions to automate process and data tools to enhance operations efficiency
• Supporting strategic margin improvement business initiatives that deliver better margins to Ariat profitability expectations.
• Other duties as assigned

About You

• Bachelor’s degree with a focus in Costing, Engineering, Business Management or related field
• Minimum 5 years of relevant experience including Engineering, Development, Industry
• Engineering, Manufacturing, and Product Costing are preferred. Related disciplines also
• acceptable
• High proficiency using MS Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Visio
• Knowledge of footwear construction, manufacturing, product costing, and global business management
• Work independently and collaborate proactively with cross-functional teams
• High level of integrity and teamwork, result-oriented
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Solving complex challenges and bringing new perspectives to existing processes and solutions
• Ability to travel 5-10% of the time

About Ariat

Ariat is an innovative, outdoor global brand with roots in equestrian performance. We develop high-quality footwear and apparel for people who ride, work, and play outdoors, and care about performance, quality, comfort, and style.

The salary range for this position is $95,000 - $105,000 per year.

The salary is determined by the education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities of the applicant, internal equity, and alignment with market data for geographic locations. Ariat in good faith believes that this posted compensation range is accurate for this role at this location at the time of this posting. This range may be modified in the future.

Ariat’s holistic benefits package for full-time team members includes (but is not limited to):

• Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance options
• Expanded wellness and mental health benefits
• Paid time off (PTO), paid holidays, and paid volunteer days
• 401(k) with company match
• Bonus incentive plans
• Team member discount on Ariat merchandise

Note: Availability of benefits may be subject to location & employment type and may have certain eligibility requirements. Ariat reserves the right to alter these benefits in whole or in part at any time without advance notice.

Please note that Ariat does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies. In the absence of a signed Agreement, Ariat will not consider or agree to payment of any referral compensation or recruiter/agency placement fee. In the event a recruiter or agency submits a resume or candidate without a previously signed Agreement, Ariat explicitly reserves the right to pursue and hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted directly to hiring managers, are deemed to be the property of Ariat.