Senior Manager, Global Merchandise Sourcing

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The Senior Manager, Global Merchandise Sourcing is responsible for leading a Sourcing within the Global Merchandise Sourcing organization. The Senior Manager, Global Merchandise Sourcing has responsibility for ensuring the development and execution of short-term (seasonal) and long-term sourcing strategies that support the creative direction while ensuring margin objectives and all other high-level business deliverables are met or exceeded. The Senior Manager is expected to support and drive team and suppliers to meet company’s goal.

Responsibilities:

• Develops, mentors and trains teams providing appropriate direction, resources and environment needed for success
  • Manages global initiatives, projects, processes & resources to produce desired outcomes (Ensures that appropriate processes are launched and utilized to deliver safe products and environments for both Cast & Guests)
  • Engages suppliers & colleagues across the organization to optimize performance, ensure Disney Quality Requirements and drive innovation beyond a specific "buy" or purchase order (drives continuous improvement internally and within supply base to elevate supplier performance with measurable results)
  • Educates & cultivates suppliers to ensure production & development of project meets desired timeline
• Oversees the development of short and long-term sourcing strategies for managed categories, setting priorities, objectives, and action plans to improve supply base and mitigate risk with measurable accountability
  • Travels domestically and internationally to evaluate the viability of worldwide market opportunities, build vendor relationships, and continuously expand product knowledge/expertise
  • Drives market exploration and diversification
  • Uses product knowledge to drive leveraging opportunities across the segment and/or other Disney lines of businesses
  • Assists in the monthly business review process; collecting, tracking, and measuring cost mitigation efforts by business site, Department, Product, etc.
  • Proposes and implements solutions to achieve sourcing strategies for global site-specific items
  • Manages best-in-class vendor base strategies to maximize profitability and minimize risk so that vendor base shows measurable progress in all managed categories (earns the trust & respect of suppliers through facilitating win-win situations)
  • Actively engaged and highly familiar with advanced features and functionality of existing sourcing technology (suggests new uses for existing technology, as well as new technologies altogether)
• Drives profitability over divisional categories ensuring the proactive monitoring of mix and cause of change drivers and aggressive value engineering and negotiation efforts
  • Uses product and market knowledge to oversee the achievement of product category margin goals
  • Identifies opportunities to leverage cross-category tools, information, processes and resources to optimize organizational performance and support
  • Mitigates cost increases with creative solutions based on supply chain leveraging, value engineering and market shifts
  • Seeks, develops and drives innovative negotiation strategies that lead to significant cost and/or efficiency savings
  • Applies appropriate analytics to achieve optimal total acquisition cost agreements
• Anticipates market behavior, develops, and drives associated supplier strategies to mitigate risk, protect the Disney brand and achieve competitive advantage.
  • Articulates and reports out on market trends, key economic indicators, and geopolitical risk, along with their associated impact on sourcing strategies. Develops and monitors priorities, objectives & action plans in response.
  • Uses, cost control, and quality assurance

Requirements:

• 10 – 12 years’ experience in Global Sourcing, Product Development, or equivalent
• Bachelor’s Degree
• Product-specific technical degree and/or manufacturing experience a plus
• Drive and assist to develop clear and consistent strategies to achieve the organizational vision
• Demonstrates great leadership skills, proactively recruits, retains, and develops a diverse range of talented people
• Translates strategy into specific priorities, objectives, and action plans; driving large scale initiatives that reshape global business processes
• Develops appropriate metrics and drives executive reporting to assess business performance
• Uses knowledge of the company's products and services to manage the needs of diverse stakeholders (Collaborating with both cross-functional teams and vendors)
• Establishes and nurtures critical internal and external partnerships and alliances
• Proactively seeks new opportunities, ideas, techniques, and materials to drive product innovation with both new and existing suppliers
• Leverages synergy opportunities across functions and business
• Examines issues from a broad perspective, considering impact beyond immediate scope (Makes sound business decisions that balance competing priorities)
• Manages projects, processes, and resources to produce desired outcomes
• Creates an environment that develops breakthrough ideas and innovative strategies through the thinking and measured risk taking
• Leads the change effort from inception to the attainment of desired results, constantly "Raising the Bar" (Coaches others through change)
• Encourages team builds for both global and segment-wide relationships
• Holds self and others accountable to high performance standards
• Understands the unique development opportunities and career goals of each member of the team and provides challenging work assignments, along with, timely and relevant coaching and feedback
• Addresses performance issues and takes appropriate action
• Recognizes and rewards the achievement of others
• Learns from personal and organizational experiences
• Acts with good business acumen

The Walt Disney Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We strive to be a diverse workforce that is representative of our audiences, and where all can thrive and belong. We are committed to building a team that includes and respects a variety of voices, identities, backgrounds, experiences and perspectives.