Senior Manager, Sourcing
The Walt Disney Company
- Shanghai
- Permanent
- Full-time
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.ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
- Develops, mentors and trains teams providing appropriate direction, resources and environment needed for success.
o 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).
o 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.
o Drives market exploration and diversification.
o Uses product knowledge to drive leveraging opportunities across the segment and/or other Disney lines of businesses.
o Assists in the monthly business review process; collecting, tracking, and measuring cost mitigation efforts by business site, Department, Product, etc.
o Proposes and implements solutions to achieve sourcing strategies for global site-specific items
o 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).
o 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.
o Identifies opportunities to leverage cross-category tools, information, processes and resources to optimize organizational performance and support.
o Mitigates cost increases with creative solutions based on supply chain leveraging, value engineering and market shifts.
o Seeks, develops and drives innovative negotiation strategies that lead to significant cost and/or efficiency savings.
o 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.
o Uses understanding of product knowledge/markets by product category to support the creation of the supplier bidding strategy.
o Develops and/or maintains a stable, socially compliant supply base that is 100% compliant in meeting all ILS and regulatory standards and other established supplier performance requirements.
o Uses tools to manage & mitigate risk, uncertainty, and threats to ensure continuity of supply, cost control, and quality assurance.CORE SKILLS:
- 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.
- 10 – 12 years’ experience in Global Sourcing, Product Development, or equivalent.
- Bachelor’s Degree.
- Product-specific technical degree and/or manufacturing experience is a plus.