Category Manager – Toys (MENA)

Disneyland Hong Kong; Dubai; On-site; AED 350,000 - 500,000; Full time

Job summary

一家领先的国际娱乐公司位于阿联酋迪拜，正在招聘类别经理——玩具（MENA），负责通过市场趋势分析和战略关系推动硬件玩具类产品的成长。您将及其需要在复杂的市场环境中与多个利益相关者紧密合作，确保与产品、市场及财务团队的协作，发掘新的商业机会并确保利润达成。本职位为全职，并预计每周四天在公司现场工作。

Benefits

私人医疗保险和牙科护理

免费公园入园

迪士尼折扣

优厚的父母和监护人假期

Qualifications

• 具有消費品行業經驗。
• 有推動團隊表現的經驗。
• 熟悉使用數據分析來實現業務目標。

Responsibilities

• 与高级类别经理合作，塑造硬件玩具系列的未来。
• 利用市场趋势和消费者洞察制定有效策略。
• 领导与合作伙伴的合同谈判，确保与各关键决策者的信息沟通。

Skills

建立有效关系

财务意识

市场趋势分析

创造性策略制定

数字和社交营销能力

Education

相关领域学位或同等工作经验

Tools

MS Word

Excel

PowerPoint

Keynote

Job description

Category Manager – Toys (MENA)

申請 稍後繼續申請 Job ID 10134018 職位地點 迪拜, 阿拉伯联合酋长国 有意工作的公司Disney Experiences 張貼日期2025/10/28

工作概要:

About The Role & Team

Step into the world of Disney and take a leading role in shaping the future of iconic franchises such as Star Wars, Mickey & Friends, and Marvel within our Toys category. As our Category Manager for Toys in the MENA region, you’ll be at the forefront of driving both long-term vision and annual growth, steering commercial success across a dynamic portfolio of accounts. Your mission? To unlock new opportunities, forge powerful partnerships, and secure high-impact licensees that will elevate our brands and delight fans throughout the region.

Collaboration and relationship-building are central to this role, both within Disney and across the wider industry. You’ll actively cultivate and nurture strategic alliances with new and existing partners, leading joint business planning and regional contract negotiations to drive licensing sales growth across MENA. Channel your creativity and commercial acumen into innovative product development, leveraging your expertise in digital, social, and in-store marketing, consumer trends, and market insight to deliver standout strategies in a fast-paced environment.

If you’re ready to bring fresh ideas, agile thinking, and a passion for beloved heroes and legendary stories, this is your opportunity to make a lasting impact at Disney, where magic meets business.

This is a permanent position located at our office in Dubai, requiring four days of on-site attendance per week.

What You Will Do

• Partner with the Senior Category Manager and Category Director to help shape the future of Disney’s Hardlines Toys category and contribute to the department’s long-term vision by collaborating with diverse stakeholders at every stage, specifically focused on the MENA region.
• Utilise market trends, commercial expertise, and consumer insights to create and implement effective strategies across departments, concentrating on Hardlines Toys in the MENA market, while remaining agile to seize emerging opportunities and foster new partnerships.
• Take responsibility for the annual operating plan and quarterly forecasts for Hardlines Toys, clear objectives for valued licensees and collaborating with market leads, category specialists, franchise, marketing, product development, and finance teams to drive meaningful growth.
• Develop and nurture positive relationships partners, both established and new, leading engagement, strategic planning, and joint business initiatives to advance Disney’s Hardlines Toys portfolio in the region.
• Lead contract negotiations for designated Hardlines Toys accounts within MENA, ensuring all key decision-makers, from global to local teams, are well informed at every step.
• Work closely with creative teams and, where appropriate, the Global Interactive Experiences team to guide product development for Hardlines Toys relevant to the MENA region.
• Support marketing campaigns that enable partners and retailers in MENA to bring Disney magic to fans through memorable toys and collectibles.
• Champion the International Labour Standards (ILS) process, acting as the vital link between Hardlines Toys suppliers and Disney’s ILS team to uphold the company’s integrity and values within the MENA region.
• Generate innovative ideas by proposing new business solutions and leading research projects focused on uncovering scalable, high-impact opportunities in Hardlines Toys for the MENA market.
• Participate actively in market meetings, sharing expertise in the Hardlines Toys category, fostering collaboration, and ensuring Disney’s strategies are effective throughout the MENA region.
• Forge strong partnerships with Disney’s market teams in MENA, sharing critical updates, strategies, and franchise news, especially for Hardlines Toys, while staying attentive to local needs and celebrating market diversity. Use these connections to exchange best practices and drive collective success.
• Enhance partnerships with international Disney Consumer Products (DCP) teams by sharing knowledge and best practices to ensure Hardlines Toys licensing initiatives are best-in-class

Required Qualifications & Skills

• Degree level education in a related field or equivalent work experience
• Experience within consumer products business
• Proven experience of building effective relationships, leading and managing change and collaboration across departments to achieve financial targets and joint goals
• Proven experience of developing the performance of a team
• Financial acumen – an ability to translate numbers into a working plan
• Ability to analyse data, construct practical conclusions and implement recommendations to achieve business targets
• An ability to be agile to capitalise on the moment and identify new opportunities and target partners
• Resilient and nimble in an ever-changing landscape
• Computer literate including MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Keynote
• Written and spoken English for business use, essential; other European languages, beneficial
• A good eye for digital, social and brick and mortar marketing
• Excellent commercial and strategic approaches to problem solving and innovation
• Exceptional planning and organisation skills
• Strong influencing skills with the ability to achieve buy-in at all levels
• Forward thinking with the ability to take industry trends and translate them into something that drives growth for TWDC
• Cultural sensitivity and an understanding of local markets across MENA
• English speaking skills, essential
• Arabic language skills, preferable

The Perks

• Private medical insurance & dental care
• Free Park Entry: the opportunity to enter any of our parks with your family and friends for free
• Disney Discounts: entitled to discounts on designated Disney products, resort F&B and ticketing
• Excellent parental and guardian leave

The Walt Disney Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We strive to be a diverse workforce that is representative of our audiences, and where all can thrive and belong. Disney is committed to forming a team that includes and respects a variety of voices, identities, backgrounds, experiences and perspectives.

關於 Disney Experiences:

Disney Experiences 透過世界各地的主題公園、度假村、郵輪、獨特的度假體驗、產品等，將迪士尼故事和特許經營權的魔力帶入生活。迪士尼在旅遊業中大放異彩，在美國、歐洲和亞洲擁有六大度假勝地；一流的郵輪航線；廣受歡迎的度假擁有權計劃；以及屢獲殊榮的家庭探險導遊業務。此外，迪士尼的全球消費品業務還包括全球領先的授權業務、全球最大的兒童出版品牌、全球最大的跨平台遊戲授權商之一，以及遍佈全球和網絡的迪士尼商店。

關於 The Walt Disney Company:

Walt Disney Company 連同其子公司和聯營公司，是領先的多元化國際家庭娛樂和媒體企業，其業務主要涉及三個範疇：Disney Entertainment、ESPN 及 Disney Experiences。Disney 在 1920 年代的起步之初，只是一間卡通工作室，至今已成為娛樂界的翹楚，並昂然堅守傳承，繼續為家庭中每位成員創造世界一流的故事與體驗。Disney 的故事、人物與體驗傳遍世界每個角落，深入人心。我們在 40 多個國家/地區營運業務，僱員及演藝人員攜手協力，創造全球和當地人們都珍愛的娛樂體驗。

這個職位隸屬於 Disney Middle East FZ-LLC , 其所屬的業務部門是 Disney Experiences 。

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