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Senior Sourcing Specialist – Marketing
| Company | The Walt Disney Company |
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| Location | Burbank, CA, USA |
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| Salary | $103400 – $126200 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | |
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| Experience Level | Senior |
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Requirements
- 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
Responsibilities
- Work with marketing partners to make thoughtful sourcing decisions in selecting agencies, technologies & other service providers
- Increase the value of marketing investments and mitigate risks through smart contract negotiations
- Run RFP’s and negotiate enterprise & segment level deals
- Manage supplier relationships and recommend best-in-class suppliers & innovations
- Facilitate process improvements and bring partners across the segments together for collaboration
- Serve as the connective tissue across the segments, creating broader opportunities than what is possible at the segment level
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
