Senior Costume Buyer

Senior Costume Buyer Through innovative storytelling and a culture of collaboration, Disney Live Entertainment creates, produces, and delivers remarkable and engaging entertainment experiences. From the intimate to the spectacular, our work can be seen at Disney theme parks, resort hotels, cruise ships, and other locations the world over. This diverse team representing a wide variety of disciplines and talents from technical directors, writers and lighting designers to choreographers, cosmetologists, and music producers brings magical worlds to life through technical expertise, performance excellence, incomparable ingenuity, unparalleled spectacle and a dash of pixie dust. Senior Costume Buyers source and procure raw materials, supplies, and finished goods that support the Cast in the Disney theme parks, resorts, and beyond. This individual would continually stay on top of apparel industry trends and is instrumental to the costume supply chain. This position reports to the Area Manager - Costume Buying. This is a Full-Time role. This role involves working closely with vendors to source, develop, and procure product that meets all organization requirements, and initiatives. It also includes monitoring warehouse inventory and completing withdrawal transactions as needed. Additionally, the role involves placing orders for fabrics, trims, notions, and garments in SAP and Coupa, and monitoring delivery dates for commodities/components being ordered. The role also requires developing and maintaining relationships with vendors, seeking and onboarding new vendors, partnering with Entertainment and Costuming Operations to maintain costume quality and design, and implementing The Walt Disney Company (TWDC) procurement policies and guidelines. The role also involves meeting customer service requirements for service, quality, and value at the lowest total cost, developing new vendor contracts to sustain inventory levels, maintaining files of signed vendor contracts, proposal requests, and bid exception forms, and communicating all production status as well as product updates to Team, Issue, and Line of Business. The role also involves mentoring and providing feedback to others to further develop the team, providing feedback, mentoring, and disciplining hourly union/nonunion employees, researching, analyzing, and onboarding international and domestic sources of supply, leading projects with multiple styles and vendors with a highly complex sourcing strategy, developing and leading sourcing initiatives, and developing bid strategies for large packages of products. Required qualifications and skills include 5+ years of experience in apparel or hardline purchasing and/or sourcing, knowledge in garment construction and terminology, skilled in international shipping processes, global sourcing, and compliance, prior experience in planning, problem-solving, conflict resolution, influencing, and negotiating, strong communication skills and ease in collaborating both in-person and virtually with all levels of leadership, including Executives, proven experience in managing a portfolio of orders, experience vetting, onboarding, and leading international sources of supply, skilled in performing complex cost analysis and comparisons on a range of commodities, experience leading workflow, project budgets, and continuous improvement processes, previous experience evaluating vendors to ensure compliance, experience gaining consensus from various levels of collaborators up to and including Executives, ability to work around all types of fabrics, fibers, and synthetic furs, willingness to travel both domestically and internationally up to 20% of the time, and ability to travel between work locations in each day. Preferred qualifications include previous experience in Textiles or the Apparel industry, skilled in SAP/Coupa purchasing module, Yunique PLM, and/or Access, knowledge using SharePoint and/or Smartsheet, and experience with garment specification or technical specification writing. Education includes a high school diploma or equivalent required, and an advanced degree in Merchandising, Costuming, Apparel, or related field preferred. Disney offers a rewards package to help you live your best life. This includes health and savings benefits, educational opportunities and special extras that only Disney can provide.

Created: 2026-03-07