Product Cost Controller

The role

What you will own

• Break vendor quotes into fabric, trims, CMT, wastage, overhead, and supplier margin, and challenge components using evidence.
• Benchmark comparable costs across vendors and origins and maintain a living reference for the buying team.
• Support vendor negotiations with a prepared financial position, including a walk-away price.
• Apply category- and market-level target initial markup and verify achievement at commitment.
• Control landed cost, including product cost, inbound freight, duty, customs, and unit allocation.
• Report cost and markup at a fixed plan exchange rate; produce monthly plan-versus-actual cost bridges by driver and vendor.
• Maintain vendor scorecards for cost competitiveness, delivery, quality cost, claims, and terms; reconcile committed, invoiced, and stock costs.

What we are looking for

• 5+ years in product costing, sourcing finance, or commercial finance in apparel, footwear, or third-party-sourced consumer goods.
• Ability to build and challenge product costs from components, not only review supplier price lists.
• Working knowledge of landed cost, freight, duty, customs classification, and origin.
• Experience supporting vendor negotiations and holding a financial position with commercial teams.
• Strong style- and vendor-level modelling and data skills, including advanced Excel, Power BI, and PLM.
• Sourcing or buying office experience in Asia or Turkey is an advantage.
• Fluent English at C1 level; Russian or Spanish is an advantage.
• Willingness to relocate to Dubai and travel up to 50%.

First-year success measures

• Every material buy has a cost that the business can explain and defend before commitment.
• Initial markup within 1 percentage point of target by category; savings of around 2% of addressable product cost.
• More than 90% of buys by value reviewed before commitment; landed cost variance below 1%.
• Vendor scorecards cover the top 80% of spend.

What the company offers

• Competitive salary, annual performance bonus, relocation and visa support, private medical insurance, annual leave, and learning and development.
• International team and supplier exposure.