Product Costing Analyst - Internship (7432)

About the Role

Ariat is looking for a Product Costing Analyst Intern who is interested in learning about business communication, footwear product knowledge, product costing, and gaining data analytical skills. This internship will be based at our Headquarters' office in San Leandro, CA.

You'll Make a Difference By

• Proactive margin improvement

• Mining data and run product cost margin report, be able to articulate business trend, cost drivers and variance, identify cost and margin improvement opportunities.

• Improved material selection

• Being able to search product cost info and run material price range for different product tiers and price levels. Understanding the relationship and balance between cost and price.

• Creating cost transparency

• Leading efforts to improve cost transparency in the areas of labor, overhead, and profit (LOP). Liaise with sourcing offices to gather information on the cost drivers of LOP at each factory. Define approach and processes for working with suppliers to properly allocate LOP to individual products to create improved cost transparency as an input to merchandising's pricing models.

• Product standard cost review

• Providing product cost info and validating product standard cost and analyze variance to support the finance standard cost reroll process.

• Data and Process Efficiency

• Documenting margin management process and narratives, identify improvement opportunities, and drive solutions to automate process and data tools to enhance operations efficiency.

About You

• Bachelor's degree with a focus in Costing, Engineering, Business Management, or related field

• High proficiency using MS Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Visio

• Knowledge of footwear construction, manufacturing, product costing, and global business management will be preferred

• Work independently and collaborate proactively with cross functional teams

• High level of integrity and teamwork, result-oriented

• Strong verbal and writing communication skills

• Solving complex challenges and bringing new perspectives to existing processes and solutions

About Ariat

Ariat is an innovative, outdoor global brand with roots in equestrian performance. We develop high-quality footwear and apparel for people who ride, work, and play outdoors, and care about performance, quality, comfort, and style.

The salary rate for this position is $20.00 per hour.

The salary is determined by the education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities of the applicant, internal equity, and alignment with market data for geographic locations. Ariat in good faith believes that this posted compensation range is accurate for this role at this location at the time of this posting. This range may be modified in the future.

Please note that Ariat does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies. In the absence of a signed Agreement, Ariat will not consider or agree to payment of any referral compensation or recruiter/agency placement fee. In the event a recruiter or agency submits a resume or candidate without a previously signed Agreement, Ariat explicitly reserves the right to pursue and hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted directly to hiring managers, are deemed to be the property of Ariat.