Sourcing Specialist London, England
Job description
As a key member of the Sourcing and Procurement Team, the Sourcing Specialist role will contribute to enable The Walt Disney Company in EMEA to strategically manage its third party spend, leveraging Sourcing and Category expertise, compliance with company standards, risk management, and captured P&L impact.
The Strategic Sourcing function provide commercial support and insights to the numerous stakeholders across the various Disney businesses.
This Sourcing Specialist role is part of the Marketing Category team, which focuses on the EMEA Region, and the UK spend.
“Value” or “Total Value Contribution” includes financial, risk management and the Company’s reputation preserving measures, such as compliance with Company standards and polices, compliance with Company’s code of conduct, IP protection, Personal Data protection, etc…
Responsibilities:
- Ensures highest professional an ethical standard, and positively impacts the Sourcing reputation. Is ambassador for the values, vision and mission of Strategic Sourcing.
- Is responsible to build and maintain the partnership with internal and external stakeholders for the assigned areas of spend.
- Is responsible for the application of the Sourcing Strategy and execution of the assigned projects for the category or territory.
- Ensure acting in full compliance with sourcing policies, company standards and best practices.
- Is responsible to contribute (under guidance) to build the AOP (Annual Operating Plan) for the territory / category. Providing spend analysis as instructed and collaborating on planning and validating the projects for the AOP.
- Supports the Buy Centre activity by providing information on request.
- Supports as instructed reviews of non-compliance spends and collaborates to drive compliance with corporate standards, establishing action plans with stakeholders aligning with Senior Sourcing Manager.
- Supports external market research and supplier pre-qualification activities as assigned.
- For the assigned projects, manages the collection of user requirements.
- Perform supplier selection activities for local projects in partnership with appropriate Business Unit and other procurement constituents.
- Prepare and execute clear, structured negotiations under guidance
- Provide weekly project updates to Sr Manager and update the systems and reports monthly.
- Provide rigorous cost and market analysis following the models established by Strategic Sourcing focusing on the total value of ownership, for approval
- Contribute to delivery of team’s cost savings targets
- Use market knowledge and data analysis to identify savings opportunities and contribute to a future pipeline of opportunities that meet targets
- Interact with and influence assigned stakeholders across the business
Skills and Experience:
- Procurement experience in a multinational environment, ideally in Media or FMCG industry.
- Proven expertise in indirect/ services procurement across Marketing Services
- Experience developing and implementing sourcing strategies and leading supplier negotiations
- Ability to identify/solicit key stakeholder needs and propose solutions to address their needs
- Ability to effectively communicate strategic value of sourcing to key stakeholders across multiple BUs
- Excellent facilitation and project management skills and the ability to manage a range of sometimes competing stakeholder interests and expectations
- Ability to analyze complex data, consolidate and use this to develop and present sourcing opportunities
- Ability to research and apply market knowledge to sourcing projects to create extra value for stakeholders
- Proactively looks for new opportunities
- Transfers ideas and successes across boundaries
- Challenges the status quo
- Strong knowledge of procurement practices, savings methodologies, spend data analyzes and sourcing/supply chain trends and dynamics
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Professional Suite and Coupa
Equal opportunity
The Walt Disney Company is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, colour, religion or belief, sex, nationality, ethnic or national origin, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, disability or pregnancy or maternity. Disney fosters a business culture where ideas and decisions from all people help us grow, innovate, create the best stories and be relevant in a rapidly changing world.
