Senior Lead - Footwear Costing — On Running
- Location
- Zürich
- Contract
- full-time
- Posted
- 219 days ago
Role overview
In short
The Senior Lead_Footwear Costing Strategy & Margin Governance is responsible for shaping the Brand’s footwear costing strategy and enterprise margin governance across the entire product creation lifecycle.
Acting as a strategic business partner to the creation leadership, the role drives cost transparency, margin optimization, and governance excellence by integrating product, innovation, sustainability, sourcing, and finance perspectives into executive decision-making.
- In short
- The Senior Lead_Footwear Costing Strategy & Margin Governance is responsible for shaping the Brand’s footwear costing strategy and enterprise margin governance across the entire product creation lifecycle.
Company and context
- best practices across the global footwear organization.
- Translate business strategy into actionable costing and profitability recommendations.
- Provide executive-level business cases and financial insights that support product
- investment, portfolio optimization, and long-term profitability.
- Own global costing methodologies, assumptions, tools, dashboards, and reporting
- standards.
- Drive digital transformation, automation, and continuous improvement of costing
- processes.
- Ensure data integrity, transparency, and a single source of truth for costing and
- margin reporting.
Additional details
- Reporting to the Head of Footwear Costing, the Senior Lead is responsible to establishes the creation Costing operating model, governance standards, and strategic direction for footwear costing while enabling profitable and sustainable growth through fact-based decision making.
- Lead end-to-end margin governance from target margin setting through target FOB, product creation cross functions
- Build scalable governance that supports long-term competitiveness and profitable
- Fluent in English (written and spoken).
- The Footwear Costing Team supports the Brand by delivering fact-based cost transparency, margin discipline, and decision-ready insights across the end-to-end footwear creation process.
Notes and original content
- Your mission
- Lead end-to-end margin governance from target margin setting through target FOB,
- product creation cross functions
- Your story
- Meet the team
- What we offer
Questions about this listing
What salary does On Running offer for this role?
On Running lists CHF 101'500 - 154'000 gross per year for this position in Zürich. This is the salary published in the original listing (or, when the employer omits a figure, a realistic estimate for the role and sector) — the calculator on this site converts it to your actual net take-home once cross-border tax and social contributions are applied.
Is this a full-time role, and what type of contract does On Running offer?
This listing is a full-time position. The contract type shown here comes directly from the employer's original posting; always confirm exact hours, notice period and probation length with On Running during the application process, since these details can vary by role even within the same contract category.
Do I need a cross-border work permit for a role in Zürich?
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