Senior Sourcing Specialist, Marketing

1 Month ago • 3 Years + • Marketing • $103,400 PA - $126,200 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

The Senior Sourcing Specialist, Marketing at Disney collaborates with marketing professionals to enhance the value of marketing investments. This involves making strategic sourcing decisions for agencies, technologies, and service providers; running RFPs; negotiating deals; managing supplier relationships; and recommending best-in-class solutions. The role requires strong financial modeling, analytical, communication, and negotiation skills, along with the ability to lead cross-functional teams and work across different business segments. The specialist will also contribute to process improvements and facilitate collaboration across divisions to maximize opportunities. The position requires experience in strategic sourcing and complex financial modeling, along with proficiency in Microsoft Office and experience with SAP or similar ERP systems.
Must have:
  • 3+ years strategic sourcing experience
  • Complex financial modeling
  • Scorecard analytics for sourcing initiatives
  • Strong communication & negotiation skills
  • Lead cross-functional teams
  • Analyze complex situations & develop strategies
Good to have:
  • Experience in Creative, PR, Marcoms, Media
  • Marketing Sourcing background
  • Masters Degree/MBA

Job Details

Job Summary:

About the Role & Team

At Disney, we‘re storytellers, we make the impossible, possible. We do this through unmatched creativity and use of innovative technology to bring stories to life through our movies, licensed products, interactive games, theme parks and resorts, television networks & streaming services. Now is your chance to join our dedicated team that delivers unparalleled creative content to audiences around the world. Come join this dynamics team!

The Marketing Sourcing Team collaborates with Media & Marketing professionals across the Walt Disney Company, to enhance the value of our marketing investments, by creatively crafting deals that deliver value across the enterprise, and improving the way we do business with our partners. The Marketing Category includes, Advertising, Creative Services, Digital, Events, Social Media, CRM, Market Research, Marketing Technology, and other marketing services.

Our team curates programs and content to bring the Disney Marketing Community together to collaborate, network and share best practices, and we lead cross-enterprise initiatives that require us to coordinate across all divisions, orchestrating complex deals that account for the needs of our very different businesses. Every day is different, and there are countless opportunities to give value to the business, while growing your own skills & capabilities.

What You Will Do

In this role you will work with marketing partners to make thoughtful sourcing decisions in selecting agencies, technologies & other service providers, to increase the value of our marketing investments, and to mitigate risks through smart contract negotiations. This includes running RFP’s, negotiating enterprise & segment level deals, managing supplier relationships, recommending best-in-class suppliers & innovations, facilitating process improvements and bringing partners across the segments together for collaboration and maximizing opportunities. We serve as the connective tissue across the segments, creating broader opportunities than what is possible at the segment level.

Required Qualifications & Skills

  • 3+ Years of strategic sourcing and/or relevant work experience

  • Complex financial modeling experience

  • Completes scorecard analytics for sourcing initiatives

  • Builds strong working relationships across lines of business and leadership levels

  • Strategic thinker & creative problem solver

  • Strong communication skills

  • Advanced negotiation skills

  • Ability to lead cross-functional teams & coach/develop talent

  • Ability to persevere with ambiguity

  • Ability to analyze complex situations, and develop coherent insights and strategies to maximize value.

  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office

  • Experience with SAP or other ERP

  • Strong PC skills (Excel, Access, Power Point and Word)

  • Demonstrate exemplary integrity and ethics in all instances

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience working in Creative, PR, Marcoms, Media or other marketing fields.

  • Experience in negotiations of professional and/or technical services

  • Marketing background is a plus.

  • Marketing Sourcing background is a plus.

Education

  • Bachelors Degree in Business, Marketing, Supply Chain, Finance, or related field

Preferred Education:

  • Masters Degree/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.

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