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The Assistant Sourcing Manager is responsible for managing a merchandise category and supporting the Manager, Global Merchandise Sourcing across multiple categories. The Assistant Sourcing Manager has responsibility for anticipating potential production issues and developing breakthrough ideas and processes to continually mitigate risk. The Assistant Sourcing Manager will be responsible for supporting short and long-term sourcing strategies, driving factory relationships, initial cost negotiations, production follow up, and is accountable for all strategic details and decisions of all categories that are managed by their teams.
Job Responsibility:
Proactively drives measurable efficiencies of team communications, tasks, and overall workflow to support continuous improvement
Assists management on the growth of global and segment-wide relationships
Supports manager to execute short and long-term sourcing strategies for managed categories, proactively drive the set priorities, objectives, and action plans to improve supply base and mitigate risk with measurable accountability
Assists manager in the leveraging opportunities and executes sourcing strategies for global site-specific items
Collaborates with Quality Assurance team to ensure products placed with managed suppliers are meeting Disney quality standards
Drives product development management, communicating key milestones and deadlines within the sample approval process
Drives proactive production tracking, communicating and troubleshooting exceptions and delays
Negotiates costing and proposes value engineering options to achieve profitability goals while ensuring product vision is achieved
Collaborates with factory and Product Design to bring new art techniques and applications and researching trends
Support managers to monitor the managed suppliers continues to meet ILS MCS, regulatory standards, and other established supplier performance requirements
Requirements:
Strong knowledge of product-specific construction standards, materials, and manufacturing processes/techniques
Outstanding negotiation skills
Demonstrated ability to balance conflicting priorities between creative design and cost of goods objectives
Proficient in English and Mandarin or Cantonese
Outstanding written and verbal communication skills
Strong analytical and strategy-formulation skills
Ability to influence internal stake holders and drive efficient decision-making
Experience in merchandise sourcing and production management
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