Category Manager

At Disney, we are storytellers, innovators, and creators of experiences that reach audiences around the world. Across entertainment, sports, streaming, consumer products, theme parks, and emerging experiences, technology is central to how we bring stories to life and enable the next generation of business growth.

The Enterprise Sourcing team partners across The Walt Disney Company to develop and execute sourcing and category management strategies that deliver enterprise value, strengthen supplier partnerships, manage risk, and support long-term business and technology priorities.

As a Category Manager, Technology Sourcing, you will serve as a strategic individual contributor and subject matter expert responsible for leading complex sourcing initiatives and shaping category strategies across Disney’s global technology portfolio. This role partners with senior business, technology, finance, legal, security, and sourcing leaders to align supplier strategies with enterprise priorities, influence investment decisions, and deliver measurable commercial, operational, and innovation outcomes.

• Develop and execute enterprise technology category strategies that align supplier capabilities, market dynamics, stakeholder priorities, and Disney’s long-term business objectives.
• Serve as a trusted strategic advisor to senior business and technology leaders, translating complex requirements into sourcing strategies that enable value, innovation, speed, and risk mitigation.
• Lead high-value and complex sourcing initiatives across software, SaaS, cloud, infrastructure, telecommunications, digital platforms, and technology professional services.
• Own the end-to-end strategic sourcing process, including demand assessment, market intelligence, supplier strategy, RFx execution, commercial negotiation, contracting support, implementation planning, and supplier performance management.
• Build persuasive business cases and executive-level recommendations using spend analysis, cost modeling, benchmarking, market insights, and supplier performance data.
• Partner globally across segments and functions to consolidate demand, rationalize suppliers, leverage enterprise scale, and support technology standardization where appropriate.
• Lead negotiations for complex technology agreements, balancing commercial outcomes with operational, legal, security, privacy, compliance, and business risk considerations.
• Establish and manage strategic supplier relationships that drive accountability, continuous improvement, innovation, and measurable value throughout the supplier lifecycle.
• Collaborate with Legal, Finance, Security, Technology, Segment Sourcing, and business teams to ensure sourcing strategies and supplier engagements support Disney’s enterprise goals.
• Contribute category expertise, market perspective, and best practices to strengthen sourcing capability across the broader organization.

• Significant (10+ years) progressive experience in strategic sourcing, procurement, category management, or business consulting, with meaningful experience supporting technology categories in a complex enterprise environment.
• Demonstrated ability to develop and execute category strategies that influence business decisions, optimize spend, improve supplier value, and manage enterprise risk.
• Deep understanding of technology sourcing categories such as software, SaaS, cloud, infrastructure, telecommunications, digital platforms, hardware, and technology services.
• Proven success leading complex negotiations and structuring technology agreements that deliver strong commercial, operational, and risk outcomes.
• Executive-level communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills, including the ability to…