Senior, Costing Analyst, Local Creation GC

This role sits within Nike's GC Local Creation organisation and reports to the Senior Manager, Costing & Sourcing, Local Creation GC. The Costing & Sourcing team enables consumer-right, locally relevant products by connecting product ambition with cost, margin, manufacturing feasibility, supplier capability, quality, and speed. The Senior Costing Analyst supports seasonal product creation by providing accurate cost analysis, identifying cost opportunities and risks, and helping cross-functional teams make informed product and commercial decisions.

• Support the Senior Manager, Costing & Sourcing in executing the GC Local Creation costing strategy, seasonal priorities, governance, tools, and performance metrics.
• Develop, review, and maintain accurate product cost estimates and cost sheets across key product creation and commercialisation milestones.
• Analyse material, component, construction, labour, overhead, productivity, duty, and manufacturing inputs to understand cost drivers and validate factory submissions.
• Partner with Product Line Management, Design, Product Development, Materials, Finance, Global Sourcing, and factory teams to set and manage target costs, and provide transparent cost scenarios and trade-off analysis that protect consumer value, product intent, quality, and margin.
• Track actual and projected costs against targets, explain variances, identify risks and opportunities, and support timely corrective actions.
• Identify value engineering and cost optimisation opportunities through material, construction, manufacturing, process, and supplier analysis.
• Prepare seasonal costing reports, dashboards, and insights for business reviews, highlighting cost performance, key drivers, exceptions, and actions required.
• Maintain costing data accuracy, documentation, and process discipline, ensuring information is consistent, traceable, and available at key decision points.
• Collaborate with factory partners to improve cost transparency, costing accuracy, response time, and adherence to agreed costing standards and timelines, and support the development of costing methodologies, benchmarks, templates, digital tools, and standard ways of working for GC Local Creation.
• Surface cost, capacity, supplier, compliance, and operational risks early, provide fact-based options and recommendations to the Senior Manager and cross-functional partners, and share costing knowledge with product creation partners to contribute to a culture of collaboration, accountability
• And continuous improvement.

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Engineering, Supply Chain, Product Development, Textile or Footwear Technology, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Typically 5+ years of relevant experience in product costing, cost engineering, manufacturing, product development, sourcing, finance, supply chain, or a related field within footwear, apparel, accessories, sporting goods, or consumer products.
• Strong understanding of product creation and commercialisation, including materials, construction, manufacturing processes, labour, overhead, productivity, duty, and other key cost drivers.
• Demonstrated ability to analyse cost sheets and large data sets, validate assumptions, identify variances, and translate findings into clear recommendations.
• Strong numerical, financial, and problem-solving skills, with high attention to detail and data accuracy.
• Ability to balance target cost, consumer value, design intent, quality, speed, margin, and manufacturing feasibility.
• Experience working with factories, vendors, product teams, and cross-functional stakeholders in a matrix organisation.
• Strong communication, collaboration, organisation, and project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and seasonal deadlines.
• Proficiency in Excel and data analysis tools.
• Professional working English is required.

• Experience with costing systems, product lifecycle management systems, or data visualisation tools is preferred.
• Mandarin capability for day-to-day collaboration with local partners is strongly preferred.

• Travel to supplier and partner locations may be required.