Senior Manager - Business Integration

Senior Manager, Business Integration

Disney Parks International

Summary

This role is instrumental to leading the strategic development, management and integration of business priorities for Disney Parks International (DPI), and its four theme parks in Paris, Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Tokyo. The incumbent will lead a team to drive a broad range of multi-disciplinary workstreams, requiring a robust understanding of multiple lines of businesses and strong business acumen.  

Responsibilities

• Drive impact and execute on strategic priorities for DPI spanning across commercial, operational, financial and creative development, in alignment with Disney Experiences’ and TWDC’s key organizational drivers.
• Responsible for development and execution of integrated franchise strategy for the international parks, working closely with internal and external stakeholders.
• Synthesize and prioritize key information for the President and MD of DPI, advising with concise and specific recommendations for key decision-making.
• Collaborate with site leaders and their leadership teams to identify and push forward strategic priorities for each site.
• Drive consistency and synergy across sites (“strategic consistent but tactically divergent”) and provide regular robust updates to senior leadership.
• Host and manage various DPI forums, including internal executive workshops and regular updates to senior leadership at Disney Experiences. 
• Lead and provide oversight in the development of compelling and persuasive presentation materials to senior leadership, including executive reports for segment and site-based senior executives/steering committees.
• Lead a team that acts as the key integration point between sites and other TWDC business units on company-wide initiatives to drive alignment and ensure the achievement of enterprise’s priorities.
• Lead a team that tracks, compiles, analyzes and extracts insights from key data needed from each region to inform business strategies, such as industry trends, competitive analysis, macro factors etc., while providing thought partnership to senior leadership team in navigating the landscape.
• Independently identify and pursue strategic value-added analysis around growth opportunities across DPI’s business and collaborate with leaders across the enterprise to drive innovation.
• Strategy execution and organizational transformation

Talent Attributes and Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in a fast-paced work environment.
• Outstanding analytical, communication, and presentation skills, both verbal and in written form: ability to take complex concepts and communicate them to a broad audience in a concise and persuasive manner; effectively influence senior leadership on key decisions and direction to achieve priorities.
• Strong strategic thinking and business/financial acumen to effectively scrutinize brand, financial, and operational implications; able to critically evaluate business models and product proposals against strategic priorities.
• Proactively engage and collaborate with internal partners. Build and maintain strong partnerships to identify business opportunities for the segment.
• Core Attributes:
  • Attention to detail, high sense of ownership, and skills to complete a wide range of high priority tasks.
  • Works effectively in a large collaborative, matrix organization; ability to integrate both vertically (within site) and horizontally (cross-site and enterprise), driving alignment across stakeholders with competing priorities.
  • Operate with utmost integrity. Credible, proactive, and trusted thought partner with a track record of building strong relationships and delivering results.
  • Strong organizational skills and demonstrated ability to manage multi-disciplinary projects and the day-to-day tasks of diverse teams.
  • Innovative problem solver with a passion for developing creative solutions to solve complex problems.
  • Quick learner who is highly independent, adaptive and agile: able to conduct deep dives on unique and complex topics and formulate strategic recommendations in a short period of time.
  • Ability to think pragmatically and ability to drive executions
  • Strong problem solving, analytical and numerical skills
  • Creative mindset with the ability to leverage on data to develop strategy/decisions
  • Champion of Change
  • Willingness to coach, mentor, and guide junior team members to continuously elevate the team’s capabilities and business acumen.
  • Possesses a global mindset and cultural sensitivity; (Preferred) experience working with international business units, stakeholders, and partners.
• Preferred Skills:
  • Fluency in one or more of the following languages: Mandarin, Japanese, French and Cantonese
  • Competency in quantitative analysis, with demonstrated ability to interpret, manipulate, and present quantitative data to inform strategic planning and decision making.