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Costing Manager

Top Management

Dependable Costing and Materials Manager bringing management experience and a willingness to take on added responsibility to meet tight deadlines. Enthusiastic team player with a strong work ethic and advanced complex problem solving skills. Superior negotiation skills as well as maintaining strong vendor and factory relationships.
Skills
•	Effective leader
•	Consistently meet goals
•	Budget development
•	Exceptional interpersonal communication
•	Organized
•	Product development
•	Quality control	•	Supply chain and resource management
•	Materials accountability
•	Procurement specialist
•	Materials lifecycle expertise
•	Superior negotiation skills
•	Process improvement


•	Created and Implements strategic costing based off of strategic factory sourcing for competitive costing quote to achieve target margins and financial goals.
•	Partnered with factories to increase efficiencies and reduce labor and overhead through manufacturing initiatives while communicating back to design and development teams for future knowledge and reduce re-work.
•	Joined the Product Creation Cross Functional Team to partner up with key groups on creating better transparency on developing and distribution of cost trackers, commodity trackers and costing/financial reporting.
•	Created charts and reports for metrics to be used to gain better visibility and greater transparency during key milestone meetings such as line reviews, QBR's and yearly reviews.
•	Created a fully functional Material Library for design and development teams from the ground up while working on a material and vendor consolidation with all of our factory partners.
•	Worked with design and development teams to

Consistently assess vendor base, researches and sets up new ones, travels to factories as needed.
    Manages product life cycle and communicates internally time and action plan based on development calendar and coordinates with cross functional teams to ensure tasks are performed on time and product delivery dates are met.
    Pro actively trouble shoots issues regarding, but not limited too, cost, feasibility, construction etc.
    Assist design team with creating tech pack and designs, owns tech pack updates after design handoff all the way until production is started.
    Builds, inputs, and maintains ROKA’s PLM system with current colors, bill of materials, costing, and other elements needed to successfully develop our apparel products.
    Manages hand off of the complete Tech Pack (incl. Sketch, Artwork(s), BOM, Patterns, etc.) and ensures it is understood by factories.
    Ensures timely development of prototypes and counter samples, strike-offs.
    Negotiates and tracks cost submit from factories at each stage of development and aims to achieve specific margin goals set by PLM, communicates regularly on progress.
    In conjunction with the Merch team, maintains product specifications for catalog, and on-line launches.
    Keeps Development Manager and PLM updated on the status throughout the development process.

Product Developer

•	Contributed and implemented a strategy for the future global growth of all categories.
•	Knowledgeable of industry trends, consumer profiles, retail markets, and the competitive landscape.
•	Possess a deep understanding of the product creation process (product development and costing), and a strong attention to detail with the ability to also maintain "big picture" focus 
•	Developed and implemented a new process to review product costing through various stages of the product lifecycle 
•	Established and enhanced an environment of better communication between departments to enhance the flow of information pertaining to a product category 
•	Constructed and maintained a global margin model for new products 
•	Negotiated with factories and vendors, advancing contract manufacturing relationships 
•	Establish and roll-out costing standards related to L&O, Loss, OS/MS pricing, and Thread/Cement/Packaging create (and enforce) costing standards 
•	Resolved costing issues and discrepancies b

Senior Finance Assoc./ Product Costing

•	Created an FOB estimate model for use by the product creation team 
•	Compared a financial analysis of similar footwear model by collection/season for all sample and production samples 
•	Prepared estimated mold costs for footwear models 
•	Resolved costing issues and discrepancies by partnering with Asian Costing team partners 
•	Monitored the timely delivery of accurate cost breakdowns at key milestones within the product development calendar Lead special costing projects as necessary for quick strike programs.


Costing Analyst/ Product Support II

•	Supported the development of customer driven assortment plans for assigned area Identified and shopped competition to make product recommendations 
•	Maintained knowledge base of industry and competitor market trends as it relates to their assigned business area
•	 Executed sales, margin and inventory plans for assigned product category 
•	Analyzed sales trend, key items, vendor profitability and aged inventory to make recommendations for driving improved performance
•	 Co-coordinated with Marketing team on trade show event planning and design.


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Rebecca Cleaton is a Costing Manager at Crocs, Inc in Marietta, GA. View their experience, skills and work history on Malakye — the professional network for…

Rebecca Cleaton — Costing Manager at Crocs, Inc

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North Carolina State University

Southern NH University

University of New Hampshire-Manchester