Senior Manager, Global Merchandise Sourcing - Consumer Products (Softlines & Hardlines)
Job Summary:
This is an office-based role in our Singapore office.
Wherever you are in the amazing world of Disney, you are contributing to the stories of our iconic brands, recognised by audiences everywhere for entertainment, information and inspiration. Innovation, imagination and inclusion are at the core of Disney, defining the experience that we deliver as well as providing the foundation of our success. The scope of our business, combined with global growth and collaboration result in an inclusive employee experience characterized by continuous learning, development and achievement.
About Disney Consumer Products
Disney Consumer Products (DCP) is the division of Disney Experiences that brings beloved brands and franchises into the daily lives of families and fans through products - including toys, t-shirts, apps, books, and more - and experiences that can be found around the world. This includes on the Disney Store e-commerce platform, Disney Parks, local and international retailers, and Disney Store locations globally. The business is home to world-class teams of experts in product, licensing, and retail; artists and storytellers; and technologists who inspire imaginations around the world.
About Global Merchandise Sourcing
Global Merchandise Sourcing team handles all apparel development and production of Disney’s consumer products end to end. The team handles all styles from point of tech pack development, sample creation, costing, tech approvals and eventual bulk production and shipment of these products to the global Disney Parks and Disney Stores. We manage and collaborate with our vendor source base and collaborate with our Disney Design and Merchandising teams on day-to-day level.
About the Role
The Senior Manager, Global Merchandise Sourcing is responsible for leading Sourcing within the Global Merchandise Sourcing organization. The Senior Manager, Global Merchandise Sourcing has global 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.
This role would responsible for softlines and hardlines product categories which includes apparel, accessories, home, pin trading, and more.
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.
- 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 business.
- 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.
- Actively engaged and familiar with advanced features and functionality of existing sourcing technology.
- Drives profitability over divisional categories ensuring the monetary 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, and processes.
- 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 cost and/or efficiency savings.
- Applies appropriate analytics to achieve optimal total acquisition cost agreements.
- Anticipates market behavior, develops and manages supplier strategies to mitigate risk and achieve competitive advantage.
- Articulates and reports on market trends, key economic indicators, geopolitical risk and associated impact on sourcing strategies.
- Uses understanding of market to support the creation of the supplier bidding strategy.
- Develops and maintains a stable, socially compliant supply base.
- Uses tools to manage & mitigate risk and ensure continuity of supply, cost control, and quality assurance.
Requirements - Experience:
- 10 to 12 years’ experience in Global Sourcing, Product Development, Apparel Sourcing or equivalent.
- Knowledge in 3D digital apparel tools such as CLO3D, Browzwear, etc.
- Experiences with fabric sourcing, garment development, End-to-End apparel production process.
- Strong apparel understanding, construction, fit, and fabric knowledge.
- Understanding of textile performance and testing.
Requirements - Skills:
- Drive and develop clear strategy 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 reporting.
- Uses product/service knowledge to manage stakeholder needs.
- Established and nurtures critical partnerships.
- Proactively seeks new opportunities, ideas, techniques, and materials to drive innovation.
- Leverages synergy opportunities.
- Examines issues from a broad perspective.
- Manages projects, processes, and resources.
- Creates an environment that develops breakthrough ideas and thinking.
- Leads the change effort from inception to attainment.
- Encourages relationship building.
- Holds self and others to high standards.
- Understands and provides coaching and feedback.
- Addresses performance issues and takes appropriate action.
- Recognizes and rewards achievement.
- Learns from experiences.
- Acts with good acumen.
Educational Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree
- Product-specific technical degree and/or experience a plus.
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 all voices.