Manager, Costing FTW
adidas · São Paulo, SP, BR
**Purpose:**A key player in Product Development \& Sourcing (PD\&S) in driving PD\&S’s vision to be the Most Agile, Most Competitive \& Most Innovative PD\&S in the industry. Champion data\-driven insights, continuous improvement, and collaborative problem\-solving to help achieve the company’s margin ambitions. **Key Responsibilities:** * Track, analyse, and interpret product and operational cost performance; develop strategic pricing approaches and identify opportunities to enhance profitability and business value. * Identify cost\-saving opportunities and margin leakage points, proactively recommending strategies that improve financial performance and drive sustainable growth. * Design, build, and maintain impactful trackers, dashboards, and reporting tools that provide visibility into margin performance, cost variances, and actionable business insights for leadership teams. * Ensure accurate, transparent, and timely cost analysis throughout the product development and commercialization process * Collaborate closely with Development, Materials, Product Creation, and Sourcing Operations teams to support achievement of target costs * Analyse margin performance across key costing milestones, identifying drivers of variance, emerging trends, risks, and opportunities for cost optimization. * Provide PD\&S Costing Leadership with meaningful insights on margin developments, cost drivers, supplier pricing trends, and competitive benchmarking to support strategic decision\-making. * Continuously strengthen expertise in costing, sourcing, market dynamics, and industry trends while fostering a culture of knowledge sharing and continuous learning. * Challenge existing costing standards, processes, and policies by identifying opportunities to simplify, streamline, and continuously improve ways of working. * Ensure all PD\&S operational practices comply with the company’s Responsible Sourcing \& Purchasing Policies, standards, and applicable legal requirements, while effectively managing related internal and external processes. * Role model leadership to foster a culture of Diversity Equity \& Inclusion that strives for an inclusive workplace. **Key Relationships:** * Product Development \& Sourcing: Sourcing Operations, Materials, Planning, Manufacturing Excellence * Cross\-functional teams: Brand Finance, Business units * External stakeholder: Tier 1 Costing **Knowledge Skills and Abilities**: * Strong understanding of the sourcing industry, with expertise in product costing, financial analysis, product development, manufacturing, or supply chain operations. * Highly analytical with strong problem\-solving capabilities and a solutions\-oriented, customer\-focused mindset. * Advanced ability to work with large and complex datasets, identify meaningful trends, and translate data into clear, actionable business recommendations. * Fluent in English (written and spoken), strong project management and change management capabilities, with the ability to navigate ambiguity and drive execution. * Strong presentation, stakeholder management, negotiation, influencing, and communication skills. * Strategic and critical thinker who can challenge the status quo, provide alternative perspectives, and influence decision\-making. * Self\-motivated, proactive, and able to work independently while driving measurable results in a fast\-paced environment. * Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office applications; experience with BI platforms, data visualization tools, and advanced analytics and AI solutions is an advantage. **Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:** * Bachelor’s degree in finance, Accounting, Economics, Data Analytics, Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, or a related field. * Minimum of 5\+ years of relevant experience within a multinational environment, such as top\-tier consulting, commercial finance, product costing, project management, fashion, sourcing, manufacturing, or supply chain management. * Proven experience influencing cross\-functional stakeholders, driving business performance through analytics, and leading initiatives that deliver commercial impact. * Experience working across global and regional teams, with the ability to build strong partnerships and align diverse stakeholders toward common objectives. AT ADIDAS WE HAVE A WINNING CULTURE. BUT TO WIN, PHYSICAL POWER IS NOT ENOUGH. JUST LIKE ATHLETES OUR EMPLOYEES NEED MENTAL STRENGTH IN THEIR GAME. WE FOSTER THE ATHLETE’S MINDSET THROUGH A SET OF BEHAVIORS THAT WE WANT TO ENABLE AND DEVELOP IN OUR PEOPLE AND THAT ARE AT THE CORE OF OUR UNIQUE COMPANY CULTURE: THIS IS HOW WE WIN WHILE PLAYING FAIR. * **COURAGE:** Speak up when you see an opportunity; step up when you see a need.. * **OWNERSHIP:** Pick up the ball. Be proactive, take responsibility and follow\-through. * **INNOVATION:** Elevate to win. Be curious, test and learn new and better ways of doing things. * **TEAMPLAY:** Win together. Work collaboratively and cult