Director, International Sourcing

• Develops, mentors, and trains teams, providing appropriate direction, resources, and environment needed for success
• Manages global initiatives, projects, processes & resources to produce desired outcomes
• Engages suppliers & colleagues across the organization to optimize performance, ensure Disney Quality Requirements, and drive innovation within supply base
• Educates & cultivates suppliers to ensure production & development of project meets desired timeline
• Oversees the development of short and long-term sourcing strategies for managed division
• 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
• Fine tune measures to achieve cost mitigation goals
• Proposes and implements solutions to achieve sourcing strategies for global and local developed items
• Manages best-in-class vendor base strategies to maximize profitability and minimize risk
• Actively engaged and highly familiar with advanced features and functionality of existing sourcing technology
• Drives profitability over managed 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
• Mitigates cost increases with creative solutions based on supply chain leveraging, value engineering and market shifts
• Seeks, develops and drives innovative negotiation strategies
• Applies appropriate analytics to achieve optimal total acquisition cost agreements
• Anticipates market behavior, develops and drives associated overall 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
• Uses understanding of product knowledge/markets by product category to support the creation of the supplier bidding strategy
• 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
• Uses tools to manage & mitigate risk, uncertainty, and threats to ensure continuity of supply, cost control, and quality assurance

• 10 - 15 years experience in Global Sourcing, Product Development, or equivalent
• Bachelor’s Degree
• Product-specific technical degree and/or manufacturing experience a plus

Product-specific technical degree and/or manufacturing experience a plus