Associate Sourcing Manager Job at Disney (Kwun Tong)

Job Description

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
Strong computer skills (i.e., Excel, PowerPoint, MicroCharts, etc.)
Ability to work on multiple projects within specified time frames
Demonstrated ability to work in a multi-cultural environment
Understanding of US and Global testing, safety, and labeling requirements and impact to product design and manufacturing processes
Understanding of free-trade agreements, duties and resulting impact of sourcing strategies
Ability to identify quality and product safety risks during sample reviews and implementation of effective mitigation proposal

Nice to have

5 – 8 years’ experience in Global Sourcing and/or Merchandising
Bachelor’s Degree
Product-specific technical degree and/or manufacturing experience a plus
Proficiency in English (spoken and written)
Ability to communicate in other languages would be a plus
Manufacturing and trading experience preferred
A good understanding of toy development process including 3D drawing, prototyping, tooling details, sample development (1st shot, EPs and FEP), toy manufacturing processes and quality standards would be an advantage

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