Senior Manager, Sourcing APAC

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Who We Are…

When we say, “the stuff dreams are made of,” we’re not just referring to the world of wizards, dragons and superheroes, or even to the wonders of Planet Earth. Behind WBD’s vast portfolio of iconic content and beloved brands, are the storytellers bringing our characters to life, the creators bringing them to your living rooms and the dreamers creating what’s next…

From brilliant creatives, to technology trailblazers, across the globe, WBD offers career defining opportunities, thoughtfully curated benefits, and the tools to explore and grow into your best selves. Here you are supported, here you are celebrated, here you can thrive.

The Job

The Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) Senior Manager for ANZ, INSEAK, Singapore supports category strategy development and associated initiatives for the company. He/she is a generalist procurement professional. He/she proactively partners with business stakeholders to develop category strategies and lead sourcing projects, enable specification definition and demand management, as well as managing supplier performance and innovation activities. Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) Senior Manager will report to the Head of International EMEA / Asia Pacific.

The Daily

Category Management

• Establishes strong relationships with key WBD stakeholders in all categories.

• Builds a strong understanding of strategic business direction, objectives, requirements and priorities across all categories.

• Effectively works with functional and business groups as a trusted advisor to identify sourcing opportunities, develop and implement sourcing strategies across WBD to deliver against business objectives.

• Supports the development of category strategy recommendations in a concise and persuasive fashion and leads implementation of the sourcing strategy (optimization, process enhancements, sole source or short-list negotiations, leverage added scope, competitive bidding, reverse auctions, etc.)

• Is resourceful in obtaining relevant information for developing new category strategies and supporting decisions within the category and/or sourcing engagements for the business unit.

Supplier Selection / Management

• Conducts comprehensive supplier analysis (strategic direction, financial health/risk due diligence, market position, power within industry, capabilities & capacity, risk assessment)

• Develops and implements supplier relationship programs that cut across multiple WBD business divisions.

Sourcing-driven Project Management

• Identifies and implements large scale, complex projects across divisions and territories. May involve outsourcing analysis and total cost of ownership considerations.

• Compiles and synthesizes both business requirements and external market conditions to develop optimal category strategy with full understanding of potential shortfalls and risk mitigation plans.

• Develops and assembles required Request for Information (RFI), Request for Quotation (RFQ) or Request for Proposal (RFP) to facilitate development of sourcing strategy.

• Leads the entire Request for Proposal (RFP) process which includes leading cross-functional teams in selecting partners to facilitate real estate related requirements.

• Demonstrates consistent success in meeting or exceeding goals, timelines, and expectations for multiple projects that may be occurring simultaneously.

Financial, Cost, Spend Analysis. Cost Savings Reporting

• Breaks paradigms to look at financial/analytical problems in new ways.

• Develops detailed analyses of financial statements and industry cost drivers.

• Conceives and develops complex analytical & pricing models, including analysis of financial statements and industry cost drivers. Can apply various types of financial analyses to address challenges.

• Analyzes market/category trends and historical spending patterns to identify opportunities for supplier consolidation and (re)negotiations.

Negotiations, Contract Creation & Management

• Leads and develop negotiation strategies, contract analyses, sourcing communications and meetings.

• Possesses the experience and confidence to make well-judged decisions independently, which consider the short- and long-term impacts to the interests of the business.

• Collaborates with stakeholders and legal counsel to lead global negotiations and contract coordination. Has the necessary business acumen to be thoroughly conversant in the intent and rationale behind contract provisions from a business as well as legal perspective, and acts as a liaison between the contracting entities, legal groups, and other parties as necessary.

The Essentials
Work Experience

• 8+ years strategy, operations and sourcing experience in a sophisticated sourcing environment with demonstrated people management experience.

• Solid experience and highly developed subject matter expertise in the Region

Education, Professional Training, Technical Training or Certification

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business Management or a technical major is required.

• Experience in the Media & Entertainment industry with exposure is required

• Professional accreditation in sourcing / procurement preferred

Knowledge/Skills

• Must have proven project management experience, excellent communication skills, ability to analyze and resolve complex issues, and a team building work style for a fast-paced environment.

• Experience in working with executives in formulating and executing on business strategy.

• Experience in working in a large, global, decentralized and matrixed organization.

• Curious, passionate, self-starter, strong customer service orientation with the highest integrity and work ethics.

• Strong supplier management/performance measurement monitoring experience.

• Must be knowledgeable of, and experienced in, application of Strategic Sourcing best practices.

• Ability to deliver professional and effective communications, verbally or in writing thorough presentations that are persuasive, and result in positive impact on the business.

• Advance analytical skills and demonstrated application of category-specific best practices.

• Able to conceive, comprehend, analyze, translate and apply complex business strategies/practices/requirements into RFXs & analytical/financial models.

• Strong project leader, emphasis on execution, multi-tasking & managing multiple priorities.

• Highly collaborative and agile team player.

• Able to gain trust, strong service orientation, impeccable customer focus with the ability to influence others.

• Self-motivated, works independently, minimal direction needed.

• Ability to manage multiple projects & tasks that may be occurring simultaneously with tight timelines.

How We Get Things Done…

This last bit is probably the most important! Here at WBD, our guiding principles are the core values by which we operate and are central to how we get things done. You can find them at   along with some insights from the team on what they mean and how they show up in their day to day. We hope they resonate with you and look forward to discussing them during your interview.

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