Specialist, Production Procurement

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Your New Role

The Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) Strategic Sourcing Specialist for Content Production Procurement supports category strategy development and associated initiatives for all Content Production subcategories for the company.  Content Production represents over $3B in third party spend across WBD’s 30+ brands and is a key contributor to business success and revenue growth.

This role is responsible for leading and supporting Production procurement projects and developing complex analysis within WBD Procurement and should have prior experience in procurement. Example procurement projects this role may support and lead are deal execution for production payroll services and production accounting solutions, development and expansion of the production deal directory, etc.

The role works with the Head of Production & Content Supply Chain Procurement, the lead of Production Procurement, and business stakeholders to implement sourcing strategies and manage supplier relationships.  He/she/they practices formalized sourcing best practices and abiding by standards and procedures. This position is charged with being resourceful, conducting marketplace and project specific information gathering and synthesis, monitoring supplier performance, and ensuring continuous improvement.

Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) Strategic Sourcing Specialist for Production Procurement will report to the Director, Production Procurement.

Your Role Accountabilities

Category Management

Conducts analysis of market conditions to proactively manage changes in the marketplace & develop project plans to address such issues. Obtains relevant information for developing new commodity strategies, considering the entire supply chain, information and economic considerations. Identifies key internal customers and stakeholders, and interfaces with them to understand current and future business requirements. Compiles and synthesizes both business requirements and external market conditions to develop optimal commodity strategy with full understanding of potential shortfalls and risk mitigation plans.  Develops initial hypothesis of key savings drivers for commodity across multiple levers – price, cost, demand and process. Develops and compiles required Request for Information (RFI), Request for Quotation (RFQ) or Request for Proposal (RFP) to facilitate development of sourcing strategy. Develops commodity strategy recommendations in a persuasive fashion and leads implementation of sourcing strategy (sole source or short-list negotiations, leverage added scope, competitive bidding, eSourcing tools, catalogs, reverse auctions, etc.).  Partner with Supplier Diversity efforts to creatively include MWBE in supplier selection process and creatively grow existing MWBE spend. Contributes to environmentally friendly purchase efforts to support WBD Environmental Purchase Guidelines.

Supplier Selection / Management

Conducts comprehensive supplier analysis (strategic direction, financial health/risk due diligence, market position/power, capabilities & capacity, resiliency). Monitors supplier relationship programs that cut across multiple business divisions to ensure service levels are being met. Identifies key performance indicators (perfect order, growth drivers, production constraints, investment strategies) to drive business value for both parties and to seek out and find emerging business improvement opportunities.   Conducts periodic supplier meeting to address performance. Leverages WBD’s Supplier Diversity Program and Sustainability partners to include diverse and environmentally friendly vendors in supplier selection processes.

Sourcing-driven Project Management

Identifies opportunities where project management expertise needs to be implemented and works to ens