Sourcing Manager

This is a Full Time Job

Sourcing Manager, Asia Pacific

Warner Media Global Sourcing's aim is to support our Stakeholders in achieving their cost, quality, profit and innovation goals by driving sourcing and supplier relationship management. You will play a leadership role in the development of the Regional Sourcing Strategy and be a trusted advisor to the business by delivering innovative and effective sourcing solutions.

What this means on a day to day basis is that you will be challenged with:
• Being the key sourcing lead to achieve the opening and ongoing running of the newly announced Harry Potter Studio Tour Tokyo
• Creating a cleansed consolidate Asia Pacific spend cube to allow the identification of local and regional projects
• Supporting the Global Category leads to execute strategies Regionally
• Partner with the local leadership to offer sourcing support to deliver against their business objectives

For this role we are looking for an individual who has:
• Japanese language skills at full professional fluency or above
• English language skills at professional working proficiency or above
• Business savvy with an inquisitive mind
• Extremely organized with ability to effectively manage multiple, time-sensitive projects and competing priorities across multiple time zones
• Proven leadership and people management skills with ability to foster teamwork and collaborative thinking
• Ability to perform responsibilities with minimal supervision, exercising discretion and independent/sound judgment, while excelling in a fast-paced, results-oriented environment
• Practices a high degree of professional integrity and ethical responsibility in all business activities
• An understanding of the Strategic Sourcing process including category and supplier management, developing complex requests for proposals and analysis of bid submissions
• Advanced analytical skills