Associate Sourcing Manager

WalWalt Disney

Hong Kong

5-8 Years

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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 continuall

y mitigate risk. THe Assitant Sourcing Manager will be reonsblefor supporting short and long-term sourcing trategies, diving factory relationships, initial cost negtiations, pouction fooll up, and is accountable for all strategic detils and decisions of all categories that are managed by their teams.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

. Proact

ivy drivemesurable efficiencies of team comunications, tasks, and overal worflow tosupport continuous impovement.

. Assists magement on the goowth of global and segment-wide rel

ationhips

to execute short and long-term sourcing strategies for managed catriries,prctively driveeset piorities, 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 < span>w

ith factory and Product Design to bring new art tecques andpplications and reseachg trends.

. Support mnagers to monitor the managed suppliers contuet

o meet ILS MCS, regulatory sandrds, and other established supplier performance ruirements.

CORE SKILLS:

. Strong knowledge of pod

uct-specific cntruction standadds, matrials, and manufacturing pocesss/techniues.

. Ottannnnegotiation sills.

. Demons

tted ability to bance conflicting prities between creative degn and cost of goods objectivesEnglish and Mdrin or Ctonese.

. Ottanding witten and verbal mmunictio

n skills.

. Strong analytical and trategy-fomulation skills.

. Ability to in< span>f

luence internl stake holders and driveefficiient decisin-myourself.

. Experienc

e in mrchandise soucinnd poduction management.

. Strong compu

ter skills. (i etc.)

. Ability to wo

rk on multiple pojects within seefied time fram.

. Demons

trated ability to worin a multi-cultural envionment.

. Undertanding of US an

d Globl teting, safety, and labeling requirents and impact to product design and manufacturing prcesses.

. Undes

tding of free-trade ageements, duties and resulting impact of sourcing Ability to identify quality and product safety risks during sample reviews and implementation of effective mitigation proposals.DESIR ED QULIFICATIONS:

. 5 - 8 years experience in Global Sourcing and/or Me

rchandising

. Bachelors Degree

. Product-secific technicc

c n>al deree and/or manufacturingexperience a plus

. Proficnni

n English (spoken and written)

. Ability to comicate in Manufacturing and trading experience preferred 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.

More Info

Job Type:

Permanent Job

Function:

Manufacturing

Employment Type:

Full time

About Company

WalWalt DisneyJob Source: jobs.disneycareers.com

About Disney Experiences: Disney Experiences brings the magic of Disney stories and franchises to life through theme parks, resorts, cruise ships, unique vacation experiences, products and more around the world. Disney shines in the travel industry with six resort destinations in the United States, Europe and Asia a top-rated cruise line a popular vacation ownership program and an award-winning guided family adventure business. Plus, Disney's global consumer products operations include the world's leading licensing business the world's largest children's publishing brands one of the world's largest licensors of games across all platforms and Disney store locations around the world and on the web. About The Walt Disney Company: The Walt Disney Company, together with its subsidiaries and affiliates, is a leading diversified international family entertainment and media enterprise that includes three core business segments: Disney Entertainment, ESPN, and Disney Experiences. From humble beginnings as a cartoon studio in the 1920s to its preeminent name in the entertainment industry today, Disney proudly continues its legacy of creating world-class stories and experiences for every member of the family. Disney's stories, characters and experiences reach consumers and guests from every corner of the globe. With operations in more than 40 countries, our employees and cast members work together to create entertainment experiences that are both universally and locally cherished. This position is with The Walt Disney Company (Hong Kong) Ltd., which is part of a business we call Disney Experiences.

Job ID: 147721563

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