Tapestry Director, Costing

About Tapestry

Tapestry, Inc. is a global house of contemporary luxury accessory and lifestyle brands, including Coach and Kate Spade New York. The organisation blends brand-led creativity with rigorous commercial discipline, operating across wholesale, retail and digital channels worldwide. As an employer, Tapestry emphasises inclusive culture, talent development and cross‑brand career mobility within a multinational fashion group.

Role & Responsibilities

• Lead and own the end‑to‑end product costing function across categories, ensuring accurate, auditable standard costs and landed costs for assortment planning, pricing and margin analysis.
• Develop and maintain robust cost models, BOMs and cost roll‑ups for new and in‑market products, incorporating raw materials, labour, freight, duties and overhead allocations.
• Provide regular gross margin and variance analysis, highlighting drivers and recommending commercial or sourcing actions to protect profitability.
• Partner closely with Merchandising, Sourcing, Product Development and Supply Chain to validate supplier quotations, costing assumptions and landed cost scenarios.
• Design, implement and continuously improve costing policies, controls and templates; ensure compliance with internal accounting and inventory valuation standards.
• Manage, mentor and develop a team of costing analysts; set objectives, monitor performance and build capability across the function.
• Own costing data governance and the integrity of costing systems and databases; lead ERP/system integrations and enhancements related to costing.
• Present financial insights and actionable recommendations to senior stakeholders, supporting product assortment decisions and pricing strategy.
• Drive process automation, KPI tracking and efficiency initiatives to reduce cycle time and increase accuracy of costing deliverables.

Qualifications

• Proven leadership in managing a product costing or cost accounting function within apparel, accessories or retail manufacturing.
• Expert technical knowledge of product costing methodologies, landed cost components and inventory valuation principles.
• Strong commercial acumen with experience translating cost analysis into merchandising, sourcing and pricing actions.
• Demonstrated ability to build and scale costing processes, policies and system controls in a multi‑brand, multinational environment.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills; able to influence senior commercial and supply‑chain partners.
• Proficiency with ERP costing modules and advanced spreadsheet modelling (pivot tables, complex formulas, VBA or equivalent).
• Fluency in English; Mandarin proficiency is advantageous for China‑based operations.

Skills

Experience

Approximately 10+ years of progressive experience in costing, cost accounting or FP&A, with at least 5 years managing a team or leading the costing function. Prior experience within apparel, accessories or retail manufacturing/sourcing environments and exposure to multinational supply chains is strongly preferred.

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Supply Chain or related discipline; professional accounting qualification (CPA, ACCA or equivalent) preferred.

Workplace

Culture

Tapestry cultivates an inclusive, creative and fast‑moving workplace where individual initiative is encouraged and cross‑brand collaboration is common. The organisation emphasises professional development, open feedback and a customer‑centric mindset, offering global career pathways across its fashion maisons.

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