Senior Sourcing Specialist
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Job Overview
At The Walt Disney Studios, you’ll help bring compelling stories to life through film, music, and live entertainment.
The Studio Sourcing & Strategy team is seeking a creative, passionate, and production-savvy individual to lead and contribute to sourcing initiatives that support Studio Production. This role helps ensure we are getting best-in-class quality, reliability, security, and value from our vendors and partners. This is an exciting opportunity to partner with the teams who produce motion pictures released under the Disney Live Action, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Pixar Animation Studios, Marvel Studios, Lucasfilm, 20th Century Studios, and Searchlight banners.
In this role, you will be expected to provide key insights on Studio Production vendors and categories, develop long-term vendor strategies, negotiate agreements, and drive synergies across common Studio vendors and workflows. In addition to Studio Production, you will also have the opportunity to support exciting initiatives across Studio Operations and Studio Marketing. This position reports to the Manager, Strategic Sourcing.
Responsibilities
- Support sourcing projects through the following:
- Vendor, category, and industry research
- Current and projected spend analysis
- Workflow and process analysis
- Bid and proposed term analysis
- Negotiation strategy and execution
- Contract development, negotiation, execution, and maintenance
- Project management of sourcing-related activities
- Develop and maintain relationships with stakeholders to facilitate on-going and potential initiatives
- Build and maintain relationships at vendor partners to ensure mutual understanding of strategies and organizational priorities; ensure value of agreements is realized by both parties
- Maintain a high-level of understanding of on-going trends across the marketplace to provide insights about vendor expectations and competition for vendor resources
- Support additional projects across Studio Sourcing, including Studio Operations and Studio Marketing
Qualifications
- 3 years of experience in entertainment production, strategic sourcing, and/or project management disciplines; entertainment industry experience preferred
- Proven experience in fact-based negotiations and contract analysis. Should be able to:
- Analyze deal terms and understand operational and financial implications of executing the terms of the arrangement
- Develop negotiation plan to achieve desired business outcome
- Work collaboratively with legal, finance, and business stakeholders throughout negotiation process
- Document final agreement with a package of a signed contract and communication plan to stakeholders
- Excellent project management skills, capable of leading and managing an array of initiatives from project initiation through completion
- Ability to work collaboratively and effectively with internal and external stakeholders, including subject matter experts and executives
- Self-motivated with strong prioritization and multitasking skills
- Experience in influencing without direct authority
- Highly professional and customer-service oriented
- Excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills
Required Education
- Bachelor's Degree
Preferred Education
- MBA
The hiring range for this position in California is $103,400.00 - $126,200.00 per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate’s geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to the full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.
Acerca de The Walt Disney Studios:
Durante más de 95 años, The Walt Disney Studios ha sido la base sobre la que se construyó The Walt Disney Company. En la actualidad ofrece películas, series, música y obras de teatro de calidad a consumidores de todo el mundo. The Walt Disney Studios engloba una colección de respetados estudios de cine, entre ellos, Disney, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Pixar Animation Studios, Marvel Studios, Lucasfilm, 20th Century Studios y Searchlight Pictures. También es el hogar de Disney Theatrical Productions, productora de espectáculos teatrales de primera clase.
Acerca de The Walt Disney Company:
The Walt Disney Company, junto con sus subsidiarias y afiliadas, es una empresa internacional diversificada líder en entretenimiento familiar y medios de comunicación que incluye tres segmentos comerciales principales: Disney Entertainment, ESPN y Disney Experiences. Desde sus humildes comienzos como estudio de dibujos animados en la década de 1920 hasta su reconocido nombre en la industria del entretenimiento en la actualidad, Disney continúa con orgullo su legado de crear historias y experiencias de clase mundial para toda la familia. Las historias, los personajes y las experiencias de Disney llegan a consumidores e invitados de todos los rincones del mundo. Con operaciones en más de 40 países, nuestros empleados y miembros del elenco trabajan juntos para crear experiencias de entretenimiento que sean apreciadas a nivel local y global.
Este puesto es en Walt Disney Pictures , que forma parte de una empresa comercial que denominamos The Walt Disney Studios.
Walt Disney Pictures es un empleador que ofrece igualdad de oportunidades. Los solicitantes recibirán consideración para el empleo independientemente de su raza, religión, color, sexo, orientación sexual, género, identidad de género, expresión de género, nacionalidad, ascendencia, edad, estado civil, condición de militar o veterano, afección médica, información genética o discapacidad, o cualquier otro fundamento prohibido por la ley federal, estatal o local. Disney defiende un entorno empresarial donde las ideas y decisiones de todas las personas nos ayudan a crecer, innovar, crear las mejores historias y ser relevantes en un mundo en constante evolución.