Strategic Sourcing, Senior Manager

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Who We Are…

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Your New Role is ...

The Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) Senior Manager for Japan supports category strategy development and associated initiatives for the company. He/she is a generalist procurement professional. He/she proactively partners with business stakeholders to develop category strategies and lead sourcing projects, enable specification definition and demand management, as well as managing supplier performance and innovation activities. Japan spend is currently increasing spend due to the Studio Tour Tokyo opening in 2023. Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) Senior Manager Japan will report to the Head of International EMEA / Asia Pacific

Your Role Accountabilities….

Category Management

• Establishes strong relationships with key WBD stakeholders in all categories.
• Builds a strong understanding of strategic business direction, objectives, requirements and priorities across all categories

Supplier Selection / Management

• Conducts comprehensive supplier analysis (strategic direction, financial health/risk due diligence, market position, power within industry, capabilities & capacity, risk assessment)
• Develops and implements supplier relationship programs that cut across multiple WBD business divisions

Sourcing-driven Project Management

• Identifies and implements large scale, complex projects across divisions and territories. May involve outsourcing analysis and total cost of ownership considerations.
• Compiles and synthesizes both business requirements and external market conditions to develop optimal category strategy with full understanding of potential shortfalls and risk mitigation plans.

Financial, Cost, Spend Analysis. Cost Savings Reporting

• Breaks paradigms to look at financial/analytical problems in new ways.
• Develops detailed analyses of financial statements and industry cost drivers.

Negotiations, Contract Creation & Management

• Leads and develop negotiation strategies, contract analyses, sourcing communications and meetings.
• Possesses the experience and confidence to make well-judged decisions independently, which consider the short- and long-term impacts to the interests of the business.

Qualifications & Experience…

• Proven project management experience, excellent communication skills, ability to analyze and resolve complex issues, and a team building work style for a fast-paced environment.
• Experience in working with executives in formulating and executing on business strategy
• Experience in working in a large, global, decentralized and matrixed organization.

How We Get Things Done…

This last bit is probably the most important! Here at WBD, our guiding principles are the core values by which we operate and are central to how we get things done. You can find them at www.wbd.com/guiding-principles/ along with some insights from the team on what they mean and how they show up in their day to day. We hope they resonate with you and look forward to discussing them during your interview.

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