Founded in 1856 by Thomas Burberry, Burberry is a global luxury brand with a distinctly British attitude. We are a global business with an extensive network of both owned and franchised stores across EMEIA, Asia Pacific and Americas. We are digital pioneers, and innovative technology underpins every aspect of our business, from product design to distribution and marketing. We believe that modern luxury means being socially and environmentally responsible; this mindset is core to our business and key to our long-term success.

The purpose of the role is to provide and coordinate activities for a timely release of seasonal product costs, proactively supporting cross-functional information sharing to achieve target costs.

• Analyse and understand Cost Sheets Breakdown received from the Vendors and drive cost challenges where needed, including Raw Materials and hardware costs, and all cuttable materials consumption assessment.
• Use Cost Engineering best practices, processes and tools to optimize product cost.
• Understand, maintain and populate the cost engineering tools
• Be able to develop internal product cost estimate.
• Manage cost engineering objectives, contributing to and in line with the overall Supply Chain cost management strategy.
• Partner with Product Development, Raw Materials and Product Engineering teams to gather all cost information starting from the early development stages.
• Partner with Merchandising team in order to gather all information on Target costs,
• Follow the product cost variations during all development stages (from Prototype to Sampling).
• Monitor and give a critical feedback on cost performance in production.
• Coordinate activities to reduce/maintain carry forward cost at beginning of season.
• Verify the consistency between actions taken and costs developed.
• Identify and propose Cost Savings opportunities by analysing and understanding vendors cost sheet breakdown.
• To conduct reverse engineering to cost core program when costing challenges arise.

•    Degree level in Management Engineering or similar
•    Experience within a leather good or related industry is ideal
•    Knowledge of project management principles
•    Advanced use of Excel
•    Experience on Hard Accessories would be an advantage
 

Burberry is an Equal Opportunities Employer and as such, treats all applications equally and recruits purely on the basis of skills and experience.

Posting Notes: Italy || Not Applicable || Florence || Supply Chain || Supply Chain || n/a ||