Sourcing Manager, Packaged Consumables

Consumables at Disney Experiences is an exciting portfolio that spans both a traditional confectionary business and emerging snacks portfolios. This includes candy, popcorn, sweet and savory snacks, new serving and packaging formats, seasonal items, and giftable products.

The Sourcing Manager partners closely with Merchandising, Product Design, Innovation, Product Integrity, and Supply Chain teams to translate category strategies into scalable sourcing, product development, and commercialization solutions. This leader identifies supplier capabilities, evaluates product feasibility, drives development activities, manages packaging requirements, negotiates commercial terms, and builds strategic supplier partnerships that support category growth.

The Sourcing Manager will build multi-year vendor roadmaps, strengthen strategic supplier relationships, manage products from concept through commercialization, and ensure Disney-branded products meet financial, quality, safety, regulatory and delivery expectations.

Success in this role requires balancing product development, supplier strategy, packaging, food safety, regulatory compliance, operational execution, and commercial objectives to bring innovative, high-quality products to market while supporting long-term category growth.

The ideal candidate brings industry and manufacturing knowledge, deep packaged-food sourcing expertise, strong supplier networks, product development and commercialization experience, and the ability to influence cross-functional partners while balancing creativity, operational execution, and business performance.

This position reports to the Senior Manager, Merchandise Sourcing and Product Development for Disney Parks-Specific categories.

• Partner with Merchandising, Product Design, Inventory Planning, and Innovation teams to support category growth strategies, new product opportunities, and evolving consumer preferences.
• Bring market intelligence, supplier insights, emerging capabilities, and industry trends to cross-functional partners to inform future category decisions.
• Bring relevant supplier capabilities, product ideas, and market insights to Merchandising, Product Design and Innovation partners.

• Build short-term and multi-year vendor roadmaps that define required capabilities, investments, capacity, product pipelines, performance expectations, and partnership growth opportunities.
• Develop strategic supplier relationships that support category expansion, innovation objectives, operational excellence, and long-term business needs.
• Influence supplier capability development and investment strategies to support future business needs.
• Identify, evaluate, select, and onboard new suppliers, manufacturers, co-manufacturers, and packaging partners to support new business opportunities.
• Negotiate cost, margin, lead times, minimum order requirements, packaging commitments, tooling investments, and other commercial terms while maintaining product quality and brand integrity.
• Drive supplier performance through scorecards, business reviews, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Evaluate ingredient, packaging, manufacturing, and logistics cost drivers to support profitability and value creation objectives.

• Manage products through the commercialization process from concept through launch, partnering with internal and external teams to ensure successful execution.
• Translate concepts into feasible specifications, ingredients, formulations, packaging solutions, costs, timelines, and production plans.
• Manage product development timelines, stage-gate milestones, and launch deliverables across multiple concurrent projects.
• Manage sampling, prototype development, testing, and approval processes through production readiness and launch.

• Partner with suppliers, packaging teams, Product Design, and innovation to develop packaging solutions that support product protection, guest experience, merchandising objectives, and operational requirements.
• Ensure packaging specifications, materials, and performance standards are aligned throughout development, commercialization, and production.
• Identify emerging packaging technologies and capabilities that can improve product performance and guest experience.

• Ensure supplier compliance with applicable Disney standards, food safety expectations, and regulatory…