Specialist – Content Production

Specialist – Content Production

Requirements

• 2-4 years strategy, operations and sourcing experience in a sophisticated sourcing environment with demonstrated stakeholder and vendor management experience.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Business Management or a technical major is required.
• Professional accreditation in sourcing / procurement preferred.
• Proficiency in developing complex RFPs and conducting complex bid analysis.
• Application of Strategic Sourcing best practices.
• Advanced analytical and critical thinking skills.
• Cross-function & Cross-divisional collaboration & understanding is essential.
• Experience working across geographies.

Responsibilities

• Conducts analysis of market conditions to proactively manage changes in the marketplace & develop project plans to address such issues.
• Obtains relevant information for developing new commodity strategies, considering the entire supply chain, information and economic considerations.
• Identifies key internal customers and stakeholders, and interfaces with them to understand current and future business requirements.
• Compiles and synthesizes both business requirements and external market conditions to develop optimal commodity strategy with full understanding of potential shortfalls and risk mitigation plans.
• Develops initial hypothesis of key savings drivers for commodity across multiple levers – price, cost, demand and process.
• Develops and compiles required Request for Information (RFI), Request for Quotation (RFQ) or Request for Proposal (RFP) to facilitate development of sourcing strategy.
• Develops commodity strategy recommendations in a persuasive fashion and leads implementation of sourcing strategy (sole source or short-list negotiations, leverage added scope, competitive bidding, eSourcing tools, catalogs, reverse auctions, etc.).
• Partner with Supplier Diversity efforts to creatively include MWBE in supplier selection process and creatively grow existing MWBE spend.
• Contributes to environmentally friendly purchase efforts to support WBD Environmental Purchase Guidelines.
• Conducts comprehensive supplier analysis (strategic direction, financial health/risk due diligence, market position/power, capabilities & capacity, resiliency).
• Monitors supplier relationship programs that cut across multiple business divisions to ensure service levels are being met.
• Identifies key performance indicators (perfect order, growth drivers, production constraints, investment strategies) to drive business value for both parties and to seek out and find emerging business improvement opportunities.
• Conducts periodic supplier meeting to address performance.
• Identifies opportunities where project management expertise needs to be implemented and works to ensure that those involved in key projects are managing them optimally.
• Demonstrates consistent success in meeting or exceeding goals, timelines, and expectations for multiple projects that may be occurring simultaneously.
• Can apply various types of financial analyses to address Strategic Sourcing challenges.
• Conceives and develops complex analytical & pricing models to address Strategic Sourcing challenges, including spend baseline development, bid evaluation and savings calculations.
• Develops tracking mechanisms, monitors compliance and creates usage/leakage reports.
• Leverages Sourcing Tools & Process team and spend management tool during opportunity assessment to conduct market research and determine baseline spend and associated cost.
• Breaks paradigms to look at financial/analytical problems in new ways.
• Develops and conducts negotiations strategies to maximize value to WM across price, service and quality elements.
• 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 parties, WBD Legal, and management.
• Recognizes differences in requirements and strategies across business units and coaches others to use that understanding to optimize WBD protection/advantages.
• Develops and implements simplified processes which facilitate timely, effective contracts (makes it easy to do the right thing).
• Prepares written reports and presentations on contract administration activities for management within Procurement.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in the Media & Entertainment industry with exposure to film, television, and live production is strongly preferred, especially in production finance & accounting and/or physical production.
• Understanding and experience of the film and television budgeting processes and software are a plus.