Sr. Director, Costing

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Purpose of Role

The 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 Impact

1. 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.

Our Commitment to Equal Opportunity

At Under Armour, we are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and teammates without regard to race, color, religion or belief, sex, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information (including characteristics and testing), military and veteran status, family or paternal status and any other characteristic protected by applicable law. Under Armour seeks to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people representing a wide variety of backgrounds and perspectives. If a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please contact our Human Resources team via View email address on careers.underarmour.com.