Purpose of RoleThe
Senior Director, Costing is a key leader within Under Armour's Global Product Supply organization, responsible for driving end-to-end product costing excellence across
Apparel, Accessories, and Footwear. Based in Hong Kong, this role serves as the primary execution lead for costing strategy, governance, and capability building-ensuring cost accuracy, margin integrity, and speed to decision across global sourcing partners.
Reporting to the VP of Sourcing & Costing, the Senior Director translates strategic direction into scalable costing processes, AI-enabled tools, and disciplined operating rhythms. This leader partners closely with Product, Development, Finance, and Sourcing to protect gross margin, support pricing decisions, and enable fact-based trade-offs throughout the product lifecycle.
Your Impact1. Global Costing Strategy & Execution- Lead global costing execution for Apparel, Accessories, and Footwear, ensuring consistency, transparency, and accuracy across regions and suppliers.
- Translate enterprise and category strategies into executable costing frameworks, guardrails, and standards.
- Ensure costing rigor from early concept through commercialization, supporting critical margin and pricing decisions.
2. Cost Engineering & Margin Protection- Drive cost engineering initiatives in partnership with Sourcing, Development, and suppliers to improve cost competitiveness without compromising product integrity or quality.
- Lead should-cost modeling, labor and materials benchmarking, and cost breakdown analysis to identify improvement opportunities.
- Support margin recovery and inflation mitigation initiatives through disciplined cost governance and sourcing alignment.
3. AI-Enabled Costing & Digital Tools- Implement and scale AI-enabled costing models and digital tools to improve speed, accuracy, and scenario analysis.
- Partner with Technology and Data teams to improve costing data quality, workflows, and analytics dashboards.
- Reduce cycle time for cost decisions while increasing confidence and transparency for cross-functional partners.
- Utilize 3rd party and alternative data sets to maximize product cost transparency and cost competitiveness.
4. Supplier Economics & Commercial Stewardship- Work closely with regional sourcing leaders to understand supplier economics, capacity models, and cost drivers.
- Support strategic negotiations by providing fact-based costing insights and financial scenarios.
- Establish consistent approaches to cost updates, seasonal negotiations, and exception management across the supplier base.
5. Cross-Functional Partnership- Serve as the primary costing partner to Product, Development, Planning, and Finance teams.
- Provide Product and Development with seasonal pre-costing tools to support initial designs.
- Support pricing architecture, target margin setting, and commercialization readiness.
- Provide clear, concise cost insights to senior leadership to enable fast and informed decisions.
6. Operating Model, Governance & Ways of Working- Establish clear costing governance, decision rights, and escalation paths across regions and categories.
- Standardize processes, templates, and operating rhythms to reduce noise and increase accountability.
- Drive continuous improvement and best-practice sharing across global costing teams.
7. Team Leadership & Capability Building- Lead and develop a high-performing costing organization.
- Build core capabilities in cost engineering, analytics, AI fluency, and commercial acumen.
- Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous learning aligned to UA values.
Qualifications• Deep expertise in product costing, cost breakdowns, supplier economics, and total landed cost.
• Strong financial acumen with the ability to translate complexity into clear business insights.
• Experience implementing digital and AI-enabled tools within sourcing or costing environments.
• Strong cross-functional influence and communication skills.
• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, matrixed, global organization.
Education:- Bachelor's degree in Business, Supply Chain Management, Engineering, Finance, or related field.
Experience:- Minimum 10 years in sourcing, procurement, or supply chain management.
- At least 5 years in a leadership role.
- Experience in apparel, accessories, and footwear industry highly desirable.
Qualifications & Critical Skills:- Robust negotiation and international business experience.
- Industry expertise and risk management experience.
- Strategic thinking, communication, problem solving, team player, leadership, risk management, organizational matrix management, customer focus.
- Experience with AI-driven solutions and digital transformation in sourcing.
Additional Requirements:- Mastery-level knowledge of costing in apparel, accessories, and footwear.
- Extended work hours and frequent interaction with senior executives (VP, SVP, EVP, President, C-level).
Workplace Location- Location: This individual must reside within commuting distance from our Hongkong office.
Requisition ID: 166163
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