Sr. Sourcing Specialist, Scripted Production
Candidate-se agora mesmo! Candidatar-se depois Job ID 10130468 Local Burbank, Califórnia, Estados Unidos Empresa The Walt Disney Studios Data da publicação 18/09/2025Descrição do cargo:
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
- 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.
Sobre The Walt Disney Studios:
Há mais de 95 anos, The Walt Disney Studios tem sido a base na qual a The Walt Disney Company se desenvolveu. Hoje, ele leva filmes, séries, música e espetáculos ao vivo de qualidade a consumidores de todo o mundo. The Walt Disney Studios engloba uma coleção de estúdios de cinema respeitados, incluindo Disney, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Pixar Animation Studios, Marvel Studios, Lucasfilm, 20th Century Studios e Searchlight Pictures. É também a casa da Disney Theatrical Productions, produtora de apresentações de nível internacional.
Sobre The Walt Disney Company:
A The Walt Disney Company, juntamente com suas subsidiárias e afiliadas, é uma líder diversificada em entretenimento familiar e mídia internacional que inclui três segmentos principais de negócios: Disney Entertainment, ESPN e Disney Experiences. Desde seus primeiros passos como um estúdio de desenho animado na década de 1920 até se tornar o atual nome de destaque na indústria do entretenimento, a Disney orgulhosamente dá continuidade a seu legado de criação de histórias e experiências de padrão internacional para toda a família. As histórias, personagens e experiências da Disney tocam consumidores e visitantes de todas as partes do mundo. Com operações em mais de 40 países, nossos funcionários e colaboradores trabalham juntos para criar experiências de entretenimento adoradas por todos.
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