Sr. Sourcing Specialist, Scripted Production

This is a Full Time Job


At Disney Entertainment, you'll help bring compelling stories to life through film, music, and live entertainment.

The Studio Sourcing team is seeking a creative, passionate, and production-savvy individual to lead and contribute to sourcing initiatives that support scripted production across our film and television studios. This role helps ensure we are getting best-in-class quality, reliability, security, and value from our suppliers. This role supports feature production teams at Disney Live Action, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Pixar Animation Studios, Marvel Studios, Lucasfilm, 20th Century Studios, and Searchlight and television production teams at 20th Century Studios Television, ABC Entertainment, ABC Signature, Disney Branded Television, and FX .

In this role, you will be expected to work with our production stakeholder teams to complete sourcing projects that realize cost and process efficiency. You will provide key insights on Production vendors and categories, analyze supplier spend across productions, conduct sourcing events (Request For Information, Request for Proposal, etc.), negotiate agreements, and provide related recommendations and advice to stakeholders.

This position reports to the Manager, Production Sourcing.

Responsibilities
• Support sourcing projects through the following:
• Vendor, category, and industry research
• Current and projected spend analysis
• Workflow and process analysis
• Bid and proposed term analysis
• Negotiation strategy and execution
• Contract development, negotiation, execution, and maintenance
• Project management of sourcing-related activities
• Develop and maintain relationships with stakeholders to facilitate on-going and potential initiatives
• Build and maintain relationships at suppliers to ensure mutual understanding of strategies and organizational priorities; ensure value of agreements is realized by both parties
• Maintain a high-level of understanding of on-going trends across the marketplace to provide insights about vendor expectations and competition for vendor resources

Basic Qualifications
• 3 years of experience in entertainment production, strategic sourcing, and/or project management disciplines; entertainment industry experience preferred
• Proven experience in fact-based negotiations and contract analysis.

Should be able to:
• Analyze deal terms and understand operational and financial implications of executing the terms of the arrangement
• Develop negotiation plan to achieve desired business outcome
• Work collaboratively with legal, finance, and business stakeholders throughout negotiation process
• Document final agreement with a package of a signed contract and communication plan to stakeholders
• Excellent project management skills, capable of leading and managing an array of initiatives from project initiation through completion
• Ability to work collaboratively and effectively with internal and external stakeholders, including subject matter experts and executives
• Self-motivated with strong prioritization and multitasking skills
• Experience in influencing without direct authority
• Highly professional and customer-service oriented
• Have excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills

Required Education
• Bachelor's Degree
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Preferred Education
• MBA

The hiring range for this position in Burbank, California is $103,400.00 - $126,200.00 per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate's geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to the full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.