Global Apparel Sourcing Manager — 3D & Digital Sampling

3024 The Walt Disney Company (Southeast Asia); Singapore; On-site; SGD 110,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

The Walt Disney Company is seeking a seasoned Manager, Global Merchandise Sourcing for APAC to lead apparel categories, drive strategic sourcing, and manage factory relationships. You will oversee cross-functional collaboration with Design, Merchandising, and Suppliers to ensure creative alignment and cost efficiency.

Role requires deep experience in apparel sourcing, production management, and 3D product creation tools; travel across regions is expected to expand supplier knowledge and market

Qualifications

• 8–10 years’ experience in Global Sourcing and/or Merchandising.
• Strong knowledge of product-specific construction standards, materials, and manufacturing processes/techniques.
• Experience in merchandise sourcing and production management.
• Experience with fabric sourcing and garment development.
• Exposure to 3D product creation tools preferred.
• Strong apparel construction, fit, and fabric knowledge.
• Understanding of textile performance and testing.
• Experience with 3D garment tools such as CLO, Browzwear.
• Solid costing, negotiation, and analytical skills.
• Demonstrated ability to balance conflicting priorities between creative design and cost of goods objectives.
• Proficient in English and Mandarin or native dialects to interact with stakeholders across Asia markets.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong analytical and strategy-formulation skills.
• Ability to influence internal stake holders and drive efficient decision-making.

Responsibilities

• Inspires and motivates peer and direct reports (as applicable).
• Proactively drives measurable efficiencies of team communications, tasks, and overall workflow to support continuous improvement.
• Facilitates short and long-term sourcing strategies for managed categories, setting priorities and action plans to mitigate risk with measurable accountability.
• Travel internationally/domestically to build factory and supplier relationships and expand product knowledge/expertise.
• Be the expert in all key sourcing regions.
• Assist in leveraging opportunities, trains and executes sourcing strategies for global site-specific items.
• Drive product to meet Disney quality standards and elevate supplier performance with measurable results.
• Partner with US-based Sourcing team to drive market exploration and diversification.
• Transform data into information and collaborate with Quality Assurance on root cause/corrective action.
• Manage the development process, supporting on-time delivery and driving profitability while maintaining design vision.
• Drive product development management, communicating milestones and deadlines within sample approval process.
• Drive proactive production tracking, communicating and troubleshooting exceptions and delays.
• Negotiate costing and propose value engineering options to achieve profitability goals while ensuring product vision is achieved.
• Seek new ideas and materials to drive product innovation.
• Identify opportunities to leverage cross-category tools and resources to optimize category performance.
• Collaborates with factory and Product Design to bring new art techniques and applications and researching trends.
• Understand market behavior and suggest strategy options to mitigate risk and protect the Disney brand.

Skills

Global Sourcing

Merchandising

Costing & Negotiation

Project Management

English & Mandarin

Vendor Relations

Supply Chain Strategy

Education

Bachelor’s degree (Apparel, Textiles, or related field)

Tools

CLO

Browzwear

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

The Walt Disney Company is seeking a seasoned Manager, Global Merchandise Sourcing for APAC to lead apparel categories, drive strategic sourcing, and manage factory relationships. You will oversee cross-functional collaboration with Design, Merchandising, and Suppliers to ensure creative alignment and cost efficiency.

Role requires deep experience in apparel sourcing, production management, and 3D product creation tools; travel across regions is expected to expand supplier knowledge and market