Assistant Sourcing Manager, Global Merchandise Sourcing - Consumer Products
- Singapore
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Proactively drive measurable efficiencies of team communications, tasks, and overall workflow to support continuous improvement.
- Assist management on the growth of global and segment-wide relationships.
- Support manager to execute short and long-term sourcing strategies for managed categories, proactively drive the set priorities, objectives, and action plans to improve supply base and mitigate risk with measurable accountability.
- Assist manager in the leveraging opportunities and executes sourcing strategies for global site-specific items.
- Collaborate with Quality Assurance team to ensure products placed with managed suppliers are meeting Disney quality standards.
- Drive product development management, communicating key milestones and deadlines within the sample approval process.
- Drive 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.
- Collaborate with factory and Product Design to bring new art techniques and applications and researching trends.
- Support manager to monitor the managed suppliers continues to meet ILS MCS, regulatory standards, and other established supplier performance requirements.
- 5 years of experience in Global Sourcing and/or Merchandising
- Strong knowledge of product-specific construction standards, materials, and manufacturing processes/techniques.
- Outstanding negotiation skills.
- Demonstrated ability to balance conflicting priorities between creative design and cost of goods objectives.
- Proficiency in English
- Proficiency in Japanese, Mandarin or Cantonese is a bonus (spoken and written) - to communicate with suppliers in other markets
- Outstanding written and verbal communication skills.
- Strong analytical and strategy-formulation skills.
- Ability to influence internal stake holders and drive efficient decision-making.
- Experience in merchandise sourcing and production management.
- Strong computer skills. (i.e., Excel, PowerPoint, Micro Charts, etc.)
- Ability to work on multiple projects within specified time frames.
- Demonstrated ability to work in a multi-cultural environment.
- Understanding of US and Global testing, safety, and labeling requirements and impact to product design and manufacturing processes.
- Understanding of free-trade agreements, duties and resulting impact of sourcing strategies.
- Bachelor’s Degree
- Product-specific technical degree and/or manufacturing experience a plus