Global Merchandise Sourcing Manager (Singapore)

Disney Entertainment; Singapore; Sur place; SGD 130 000 - 190 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

The Walt Disney Company in Singapore is seeking a Manager, Global Merchandise Sourcing to lead apparel categories and drive strategic sourcing initiatives. The role partners with Design, Technical Design, Merchandising, and suppliers to ensure creative alignment and scalable production.

You will develop and execute short- and long-term sourcing strategies, manage factory relationships, negotiate costs, and drive on-time delivery while maintaining Disney quality standards.

Qualifications

• 8 to 10 years’ experience in Global Sourcing and/or Merchandising
• Strong knowledge of product-specific construction standards, materials, and manufacturing processes
• Experience in merchandise sourcing and production management

Responsabilités

• 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, objectives, and action plans to improve supply base and mitigate risk with measurable accountability.
• Travel internationally/domestically to build factory and supplier relationships, and continuously expand product knowledge/expertise.
• Assists in the leveraging opportunities, trains and executes sourcing strategies for global site-specific items.
• Drives 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 team on root cause/corrective action.
• Manages the development process, supporting on time delivery and driving profitability while maintaining design vision.
• Drives product development management, communicating key milestones and deadlines within the sample approval process.
• Drives proactive production tracking, communicating and troubleshooting exceptions and delays.
• Negotiates costing and proposes value engineering options to achieve profitability goals while ensuring product vision is achieved.
• Seeks new ideas, techniques, and materials to drive product innovation.
• Identifies opportunities to leverage cross-category tools, information, processes and resources to optimize category performance.
• Collaborates with factory and Product Design to bring new art techniques and applications and researching trends.
• Understands market behavior and suggests strategy options to mitigate risk, protect the Disney brand, and achieve competitive advantage.
• Develops and maintains a stable and socially compliant supply base that meets ILS MCS, regulatory standards, and other established supplier performance requirements.
• Proactively addresses issues with timely and high-caliber communication and actions.

Connaissances

Global sourcing

Merchandising

Costing

Negotiation

3D garment tools

Vendor management

Cross-functional collaboration

Data analysis

English and Mandarin

Formation

Bachelor's degree in Apparel/Textiles

Outils

CLO

Browzwear

Excel

PowerPoint

MicroCharts

Description du poste

The Walt Disney Company in Singapore is seeking a Manager, Global Merchandise Sourcing to lead apparel categories and drive strategic sourcing initiatives. The role partners with Design, Technical Design, Merchandising, and suppliers to ensure creative alignment and scalable production.

You will develop and execute short- and long-term sourcing strategies, manage factory relationships, negotiate costs, and drive on-time delivery while maintaining Disney quality standards.