Senior Costing Marker Making Specialist

The Role: As the Senior Costing Marker Making Specialist, you will be the central point of contact for the Marketing and Merchandising teams for all initial fabric development and costing markers. This is an autonomous role where you will be fully responsible for the end-to-end marker process to generate accurate fabric yields for sales quotes. You will work independently from the main Production R&D and Marker Room.

Key Responsibilities

• Analyze fabric consumption requests shared by the Marketing team for new garment development.
• Find similar existing product blocks to create base costing patterns.
• Create new costing patterns from scratch when necessary using Gerber Accumark.
• Apply appropriate grading rules to new patterns.
• Independently create cost markers (mini markers) using Gerber Accumark to determine the most efficient fabric yield (YY) for development.
• Provide timely, accurate costing yields to Marketing to support pre-production costing exercises.

Qualifications and Experience:

• Minimum 5+ years of experience in apparel marker making and costing within a manufacturing environment.
• Expert-level proficiency in Gerber Accumark CAD software is mandatory (Pattern Design & Marker Making modules).
• Proven ability to work independently without day-to-day oversight.
• Strong understanding of pattern construction, grading, and fabric properties.
• Experience in development costing and analyzing pre-production yields.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Self-motivated and able to manage a high workload in a deadline-driven environment.