Senior Analyst, Cost Intelligence

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

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.

Key Responsibilities

• 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 sourcing footprint.
• Translate movements in cost drivers into clear implications and trade-offs across margin, sourcing strategy, timing, supplier selection, and execution risk.
• Support earlier HTS classification identification during development to improve duty accuracy, reduce late-stage surprises, and enable proactive duty optimization.
• Develop and maintain duty savings and trade mitigation playbooks, including sourcing, classification, and structural options to manage tariff and duty exposure.
• Partner with Sourcing, Trade, and Finance teams to assess cost volatility holistically, ensuring decisions reflect the combined impact of multiple cost drivers.
• Monitor macroeconomic trends, trade policy shifts, and regulatory changes with potential cost impact, surfacing risks and options early.

Tooling Investment and Lifecycle Management

• Build tooling ROI analyses and investment cases to support sourcing and development decisions, balancing cost, quality, capacity, and timing considerations.
• Drive tooling capital efficiency through reuse, lifecycle optimization, and disciplined investment trade-offs.
• Manage tooling financials, including spend tracking, variance analysis, and amortization logic that reflects true cost to produce.
• Maintain tooling visibility and lifecycle tracking, identifying under-utilized or high-risk assets.
• Partner with Product Development to enable speed-to-market and flexibility through tooling strategy.

Costing Tools, Predictive Modeling, and Insight Enablement

• Design, evaluate new, and improve existing costing tools and analytical frameworks, including should-cost models and total landed cost views.
• Support standardization of cost build logic across categories and regions to improve consistency and comparability.
• Partner on AI-enabled forecasting, anomaly detection, and automation initiatives tied to cost intelligence.
• Enable adoption of tools and playbooks by translating analysis into practical, repeatable ways of working, with strong emphasis on clarity, usability, and visual communication.

Design to Sustainable Value

• Monitor sustainability-related cost drivers including carbon pricing and sustainable material premiums.
• Model margin impact and trade-offs of sustainable material substitution.
• Partner with Sustainability and Compliance teams to quantify cost to achieve emissions reductions targets.
• Partner across functions to support EPR data analysis.

Qualifications and Experience

Required

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Accounting, Supply Chain, Statistics, or a quantitative discipline.
• Five to seven years of experience in costing, financial analysis, commodity markets, procurement analytics, or related analytical roles supporting sourcing or supply chain decisions.
• Demonstrated ability to build and own advanced Excel-based financial models, including scenario analysis, sensitivity modeling, and margin impact assessments.
• Experience translating commodity, labor, trade, logistics, freight, duty, and currency movements into finished-goods cost and margin implications.
• Experience with tooling cost analysis, capital budgeting, or ROI evaluation, including understanding of amortization and lifecycle economics.
• Strong analytical capability with the ability to synthesize complex data into clear insights rather than static reports.
• Excellent data visualization and analytical storytelling skills, with the ability to translate complex analysis into intuitive, executive-ready narratives that drive understanding and action.
• Ability to communicate confidently with Finance, Sourcing, and Product Development partners, framing cost information as options, trade-offs, and decision inputs.
• Working knowledge of FX dynamics, trade exposure, and costing drivers sufficient to model sensitivity and support informed decision-making.

Preferred

• MBA, CFA, or similar advanced qualifications.
• Background in strategy consulting, investment banking, commodity trading, or procurement analytics.
• Experience with Power BI, Tableau, or similar data visualization tools.
• Familiarity with PLM platforms such as Centric or FlexPLM and ERP systems such as SAP or Oracle.
• Working knowledge of Python, SQL, or similar analytical tools.
• Professional certifications such as CFA, CPA, CPSM, or CFM.