Build and maintain rigorous, scenario‑based financial models translating commodity, labor, trade, logistics, tooling, and currency movements into margin and P&L implications across a range of potential outcomes.
Serve as Sourcing's primary analytical liaison to Finance for cost forecasting, budget assumptions, and margin guidance.
Establish and evolve margin target frameworks by category and channel, incorporating landed cost dynamics, pricing structures, and markdown considerations.
Develop ROI frameworks to evaluate sourcing decisions such as raw material substitution, near‑shoring, duty engineering, and supplier consolidation.
Support sourcing spend management by providing category‑level visibility, identifying concentration risks, and surfacing cost and value opportunities.
Own and continuously refine the total landed cost model as an integrated, decision‑relevant view of cost.
Partner closely with the Senior Manager, Cost & Value Optimization to manage the seasonal development costing timeline, including roll‑ups, validation, and consolidated reporting.
Cost Driver Intelligence and Modeling
Develop and maintain a cost driver framework linking commodities, labor rates, trade, logistics, freight, duties, and currency indicators to finished‑goods cost behavior.
Quantify commodity pass‑through dynamics across supplier tiers and assess supplier cost structures against objective market signals.
Maintain a living index library and analytical views that surface emerging cost pressure and volatility.
Translate cost driver movements into clear implications, risks, and trade‑offs for sourcing and leadership teams.
Translate complex analyses into clear visual narratives that surface trends, risks, and decision implications.
Costing Playbooks and Mitigation Strategies
Develop and maintain costing playbooks across key sourcing, market, trade, and geopolitical risk drivers.
Define and refresh forward‑looking scenarios to test cost exposure and resilience under varying conditions.
Conduct stress testing of mitigation strategies, evaluating effectiveness and associated trade‑offs.
Present cost risk scenarios and mitigation options in executive‑ready formats that articulate implications, choices, and recommended actions.
Build cross‑functional cost literacy by supporting training, onboarding, and shared understanding of cost drivers and trade‑offs.
Support seasonal and milestone‑based cost readouts, synthesizing complex inputs into clear narratives rather than raw cost detail.
Support rapid‑response cost reviews and war‑room discussions during periods of heightened volatility or disruption.
Cost Driver Monitoring, Trade‑Offs and Duty Optimization
Track and analyze the full set of cost drivers impacting finished‑goods economics, including currency, labor rates, commodities, freight, duties, and other external cost pressures across the global sourci
Additional Information
Job Posting Title:
Senior Analyst, Cost Intelligence
Req ID:
10151405
Job Description:
SENIOR COST INTELLIGENCE ANALYST - COST & VALUE OPTIMIZATION
Build and deliver cost intelligence that informs sourcing decisions, protects margin, and enables disciplined trade‑offs across Disney's global product portfolio.
Function
Supply Chain Intelligence - Cost & Value Optimization (CVO)
Reports to
Senior Manager, Cost & Value Optimization
Accelerating Growth Through Site‑ and Channel‑Specific Product
Disney Consumer Products is building an integrated supply chain intelligence capability to support faster, better, and more disciplined decision‑making across sourcing, product development, and supply chain execution. As product portfolios, supplier networks, and global trade dynamics grow more complex, the organization requires clear, credible cost intelligence that moves beyond static costing to inform real business choices.
The Senior Analyst, Cost Intelligence plays a critical role in this capability-providing the financial models, cost frameworks, and analytical insight that enable leaders to understand margin exposure, evaluate trade‑offs, and respond proactively to cost volatility across a diverse global portfolio.
Role Overview
The Senior Analyst, Cost Intelligence is a high‑impact individual contributor responsible for building and maintaining the cost models, scenario analyses, and decision frameworks that support sourcing and supply chain decisions. This role serves as the analytical backbone of the Cost & Value Optimization function, translating commodity movements, tooling investments, trade dynamics, and FX exposure into clear P&L implications and actionable insight.
This role operates with a high degree of accountability and judgment, particularly in high‑pressure or ambiguous situations where margin impact is material. Success requires strong analytical rigor, comfort with complexity, and the ability to communicate clearly with senior business partners in Finance, Sourcing, and Product Development.
Disney · Kissimmee, FL