Disney Parks and Resorts
Job Summary
About the Role & Team
Our team sources both goods and services and coordinates their delivery for the Disney Cruise Line (DCL) ships and private islands. The Sourcing Specialist is responsible for coordinating requirements from our DCL Hotel and/or our Marine Technical Operations (MTO) client and fulfilling those requirements from the market within the required timeline, using the most efficient means through effective quoting, bidding, contracting, and negotiation. This position works closely with stakeholder groups across the US, UK, and Asia teams as a strategic partner who listens to learn business needs; it provides expertise in planning and implementing sourcing initiatives within company compliance and guidelines, while meeting project timelines and deliverables to ensure business goals and objectives are met. The sourcing specialist drives strategic sourcing efforts across various spend categories within the technical supply chain, including but not limited to ship systems, safety, hotel, furnishings, navigation, environmental, repair & maintenance, delivering value, savings, efficiencies, and risk mitigation. The specialist works with marine and technical and/or hotel space partner departments to coordinate the most expedited and cost‑efficient shipping modes and ensures all shipping documentation aligns with trade and compliance guidelines. This position is responsible for ensuring integration of the sourcing policy across categories and managing strategic sourcing initiatives that include rigorous market analysis, supplier risk analysis, baseline spend analysis, RFP execution, contract confirmation, negotiations with suppliers, contract execution, and monitoring of source recommendations. We welcome your passion and skill to a growing, dynamic, global team and business.
This position is with Disney Worldwide Services, Inc., which is part of a business we call Walt Disney World Resort.
What You Will Do
Focus on client management, goods buying and procurement, category management, and technical solution finding in support of Disney Cruise Line New Build and Operations.
Accountable for business unit sourcing initiatives that consider supply chain processes and infrastructure improvements to drive reductions in total cost of ownership (TCO) without compromising policy, business strategy and performance.
Participate in cross‑functional teams responsible for developing and implementing strategic sourcing arrangements with key suppliers.
Source and negotiate supply relationships on behalf of our DCL's internal clients, negotiating cost, lead time, terms, scope of work, payment milestones, warranty, etc. for goods and services as applicable.
Provide quote management, project sourcing, and order execution for multiple Disney vessels or islands.
Coordinate and confirm requirements for goods or services with on‑board partners and/or shoreside management, supporting requirements for compliance with regulatory agencies (i.e., SOLAS, MARPOL, USCG, Lloyds Registry, etc.).
Leverage global supply base to ensure acquisition of requirements at the best landed cost.
Resolve issues such as extended or missed timelines, order errors, and returns timely with ownership in seeing through to completion.
Provide timely and professional communication to partners.
Identify supplier performance metrics, process improvement, and value opportunities.
Use strong analytical skills to solve complex problems utilizing a data‑driven approach.
Apply category management best practices, tools and techniques in the development and implementation of an integrated sourcing strategy and assess the overall opportunity of the spend categories for projects to engage stakeholders with critical business information.
Manage contracts and key supplier relationships. Will manage key supplier relationships for the assigned category, understanding global, regional, and local contracts and managing key contracts.
Execute on business efforts to protect the brand through best risk management practices and all efforts to achieve corporate citizenship goals in environmental responsibility and supplier diversity.
Required Qualifications & Skills
1‑3 years of dedicated time in supporting a strategic sourcing and/or procurement department for marine industry or heavy‑related project/construction management for a multifaceted industry such as park entertainment and/or real estate development.
Negotiation experience of pricing and commercial terms and conditions.
Experience in conforming contracts for simple to moderately complex technical and non‑technical engagements.
Understanding and execution of a formal RFP (Request for Proposal) process for services or goods.
Experienced in Microsoft Office Suite (esp. Exchange, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint).
Listens and asks questions to ensure understanding, learning mentality.
Team player with an optimistic attitude towards both people and the work.
Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to tailor messages appropriately to audience, peer, leader, stakeholder, vendor, executive leadership.
Keeps commitments and understands how to prioritize work with urgency.
Interacts well with people who have different cultures, backgrounds and work styles (invites diverse points of view).
Discipline/Major: Bachelor's degree in supply chain, finance, marine/industrial engineering, naval architecture, construction management, or similar discipline is required; MBA preferred; CPSM or CPM preferred.
Operational familiarity with AMOS, Coupa, and SAP Sourcing and Procurement modules/systems.
Preferred Qualifications
Master's Degree
Certified Six Sigma Black Belt (CSSBB)
APICS Certified Supply Chain Professional (CSCP)
ISM Certified Professional in Supply Management (CPSM)
NCMA Certified Professional Contract Manager (CPCM)
About Walt Disney World Resort Since opening in 1971, Walt Disney World Resort has played an important role in many childhood and family memories. Today, hundreds of millions of guests from around the globe visit this magical place to enjoy a Disney vacation. Through a combination of creativity, innovation and technology, the resort immerses guests in classic Disney tales and new kinds of family entertainment. Drawing from a rich heritage of storytelling, Walt Disney World Resort cast members bring Disney magic to life through unmatched attention to detail and superior guest service.
About The Walt Disney Company The Walt Disney Company, together with its subsidiaries and affiliates, is a leading diversified international family entertainment and media enterprise that includes three core business segments: Disney Entertainment, ESPN, and Disney Experiences. From humble beginnings as a cartoon studio in the 1920s to its preeminent name in the entertainment industry today, Disney proudly continues its legacy of creating world‑class stories and experiences for every member of the family. Disney's stories, characters and experiences reach consumers and guests from every corner of the globe. With operations in more than 40 countries, our employees and cast members work together to create entertainment experiences that are both universally and locally cherished.
Equal Opportunity Statement Disney Worldwide Services, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, military or veteran status, medical condition, genetic information or disability, or any other basis prohibited by federal, state or local law. Disney champions a business environment where ideas and decisions from all people help us grow, innovate, create the best stories and be relevant in a constantly evolving world.
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Our team sources both goods and services and coordinates their delivery for the Disney Cruise Line (DCL) ships and private islands. The Sourcing Specialist is responsible for coordinating requirements from our DCL Hotel and/or our Marine Technical Operations (MTO) client and fulfilling those requirements from the market within the required timeline, using the most efficient means through effective quoting, bidding, contracting, and negotiation. This position works closely with stakeholder groups across the US, UK, and Asia teams as a strategic partner who listens to learn business needs; it provides expertise in planning and implementing sourcing initiatives within company compliance and guidelines, while meeting project timelines and deliverables to ensure business goals and objectives are met. The sourcing specialist drives strategic sourcing efforts across various spend categories within the technical supply chain, including but not limited to ship systems, safety, hotel, furnishings, navigation, environmental, repair & maintenance, delivering value, savings, efficiencies, and risk mitigation. The specialist works with marine and technical and/or hotel space partner departments to coordinate the most expedited and cost‑efficient shipping modes and ensures all shipping documentation aligns with trade and compliance guidelines. This position is responsible for ensuring integration of the sourcing policy across categories and managing strategic sourcing initiatives that include rigorous market analysis, supplier risk analysis, baseline spend analysis, RFP execution, contract confirmation, negotiations with suppliers, contract execution, and monitoring of source recommendations. We welcome your passion and skill to a growing, dynamic, global team and business.
This position is with Disney Worldwide Services, Inc., which is part of a business we call Walt Disney World Resort.
What You Will Do
Focus on client management, goods buying and procurement, category management, and technical solution finding in support of Disney Cruise Line New Build and Operations.
Accountable for business unit sourcing initiatives that consider supply chain processes and infrastructure improvements to drive reductions in total cost of ownership (TCO) without compromising policy, business strategy and performance.
Participate in cross‑functional teams responsible for developing and implementing strategic sourcing arrangements with key suppliers.
Source and negotiate supply relationships on behalf of our DCL's internal clients, negotiating cost, lead time, terms, scope of work, payment milestones, warranty, etc. for goods and services as applicable.
Provide quote management, project sourcing, and order execution for multiple Disney vessels or islands.
Coordinate and confirm requirements for goods or services with on‑board partners and/or shoreside management, supporting requirements for compliance with regulatory agencies (i.e., SOLAS, MARPOL, USCG, Lloyds Registry, etc.).
Leverage global supply base to ensure acquisition of requirements at the best landed cost.
Resolve issues such as extended or missed timelines, order errors, and returns timely with ownership in seeing through to completion.
Provide timely and professional communication to partners.
Identify supplier performance metrics, process improvement, and value opportunities.
Use strong analytical skills to solve complex problems utilizing a data‑driven approach.
Apply category management best practices, tools and techniques in the development and implementation of an integrated sourcing strategy and assess the overall opportunity of the spend categories for projects to engage stakeholders with critical business information.
Manage contracts and key supplier relationships. Will manage key supplier relationships for the assigned category, understanding global, regional, and local contracts and managing key contracts.
Execute on business efforts to protect the brand through best risk management practices and all efforts to achieve corporate citizenship goals in environmental responsibility and supplier diversity.
Required Qualifications & Skills
1‑3 years of dedicated time in supporting a strategic sourcing and/or procurement department for marine industry or heavy‑related project/construction management for a multifaceted industry such as park entertainment and/or real estate development.
Negotiation experience of pricing and commercial terms and conditions.
Experience in conforming contracts for simple to moderately complex technical and non‑technical engagements.
Understanding and execution of a formal RFP (Request for Proposal) process for services or goods.
Experienced in Microsoft Office Suite (esp. Exchange, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint).
Listens and asks questions to ensure understanding, learning mentality.
Team player with an optimistic attitude towards both people and the work.
Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to tailor messages appropriately to audience, peer, leader, stakeholder, vendor, executive leadership.
Keeps commitments and understands how to prioritize work with urgency.
Interacts well with people who have different cultures, backgrounds and work styles (invites diverse points of view).
Discipline/Major: Bachelor's degree in supply chain, finance, marine/industrial engineering, naval architecture, construction management, or similar discipline is required; MBA preferred; CPSM or CPM preferred.
Operational familiarity with AMOS, Coupa, and SAP Sourcing and Procurement modules/systems.
Preferred Qualifications
Master's Degree
Certified Six Sigma Black Belt (CSSBB)
APICS Certified Supply Chain Professional (CSCP)
ISM Certified Professional in Supply Management (CPSM)
NCMA Certified Professional Contract Manager (CPCM)
About Walt Disney World Resort Since opening in 1971, Walt Disney World Resort has played an important role in many childhood and family memories. Today, hundreds of millions of guests from around the globe visit this magical place to enjoy a Disney vacation. Through a combination of creativity, innovation and technology, the resort immerses guests in classic Disney tales and new kinds of family entertainment. Drawing from a rich heritage of storytelling, Walt Disney World Resort cast members bring Disney magic to life through unmatched attention to detail and superior guest service.
About The Walt Disney Company The Walt Disney Company, together with its subsidiaries and affiliates, is a leading diversified international family entertainment and media enterprise that includes three core business segments: Disney Entertainment, ESPN, and Disney Experiences. From humble beginnings as a cartoon studio in the 1920s to its preeminent name in the entertainment industry today, Disney proudly continues its legacy of creating world‑class stories and experiences for every member of the family. Disney's stories, characters and experiences reach consumers and guests from every corner of the globe. With operations in more than 40 countries, our employees and cast members work together to create entertainment experiences that are both universally and locally cherished.
Equal Opportunity Statement Disney Worldwide Services, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, military or veteran status, medical condition, genetic information or disability, or any other basis prohibited by federal, state or local law. Disney champions a business environment where ideas and decisions from all people help us grow, innovate, create the best stories and be relevant in a constantly evolving world.
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