Show Manager Senior

2 Months ago • Upto 1 Years • Operations

Job Summary

Job Description

The Show Manager Senior at Walt Disney Imagineering is responsible for the tactical project management of show scopes for various projects. This role leads all subject areas within the show team, from initial concept to completion and beyond, collaborating with various WDI teams, Park Operations, and Contracts. Responsibilities include managing budgets, schedules, and creative intent, developing strategic plans for production, selecting vendors, managing contracts, supervising design and installation, and communicating with leadership and partners. The position requires leading multidisciplinary teams and managing complex scopes of work, with a preference for cruise line experience. The role involves direct and indirect leadership of support staff.
Must have:
  • Proven leadership experience in relevant fields
  • Experience managing complex work scopes
  • Strategic and tactical problem-solving skills
  • Ability to lead multidisciplinary teams
  • Experience with vendor management and contracts
Good to have:
  • Cruise line experience
Perks:
  • 25 days annual leave
  • Private medical insurance & dental care
  • Free Park Entry
  • Disney Discounts
  • Excellent parental and guardian leave
  • Employee Resource Groups

Job Details

Job Summary:

About the Role & Team

Walt Disney Imagineering (WDI) is the creative force that imagines, designs, and brings to life all Disney theme parks, resorts, attractions, and cruise ships worldwide. Working across a spectrum of disciplines that range from creative and conceptual to scientific and technical, Imagineers blend an innovative mixture of storytelling, art, science, and technology to create immersive experiences, memorable destinations, and innovative entertainment for families around the globe.

Nearly every project at Walt Disney Imagineering includes a first-of-its-kind. Innovation is in our DNA, and Imagineers constantly push the boundaries of technology and invent new goals as well as the solutions to achieve them. As Imagineers, one of our greatest rewards is knowing that the experiences and environments we create inspire others. The diversity of expertise at Imagineering makes us uniquely capable of influencing positive change in our communities and around the world. And knowing that we have helped make a difference is incredibly fulfilling and inspiring for all of us.

The Show Manager Senior is accountable and responsible for tactical project management of Show scopes for Walt Disney Imagineering Projects large and small!

The Show Manager leads all subject areas within the Show team on a project from blue sky through close out and beyond. Show Managers regularly partner with team members from all parts of WDI, Park Operations and Contracts to deliver a very complex and diverse scope of work on time and on budget with long term reliability. Show Managers are on the front line of a project to lead the Show team to ideate, design, engineer, produce, install, and deliver outstanding Shows and Attractions while ensuring project budgets and schedules are met!

You will functionally report to the WDI Executive of Show Management.

This is a Project Hire position for a 2 year fixed term period, and will be based 4 days a week in our Hammersmith, west London office with one from home. Travel will also be required - EMEA and US.

What You Will Do:

  • Lead work of Show design and production teams for all Show Disciplines involved in a designated project with Disney Cruise Line
  • Accountable for Show scope on a full project
  • Responsible for commercial management of a product line or multiple product lines/elements within a project
  • Build-out strategic plans for production of Show scope considering vendors, resource availability, budget, schedule, creative intent and agreed upon design criteria.
  • Drive results along with Show scope design team and their leadership identifying vital changes in resource needs throughout the project life cycle
  • Develop scope and bidding documents, evaluate and select vendors, and handle contract for outside vendors as the Responsible Individual (RI) and reports on progress, budget, and status to project team
  • Facilitates relationships with the Show team, all project partners, vendor leaders and subject area leads, (Primary focus on Show adjacent scope i.e., Operations, Facility teams etc.)
  • Supervise all phases of design, development/production and installation of Show scope identifying potential changes to creative intent, missed/deleted scope, or other changes to scope relative to detailed bid packages or other documentation, validate identified changes and associated values and process Change Order approvals
  • Communicates, both verbally in presentation and conversation, and written correspondence to WDI Leadership, project teams, vendors, consultants, and other partners
  • Direct and Indirect leadership of Project Coordinator(s), support staff and/or Intern(s)

Required Qualifications & Skills:

  • Proven relevant leadership experience – in film/theatre production, engineering, construction, project controls or other Disney/Themed Entertainment projects - ESSENTIAL
  • Experience managing workflow and delivery of complex scopes of work.
  • Must think strategically and tactically about complex issues and problem-solve to resolution
  • Experience and ability to work with and lead multidisciplinary Artistic and Technical subject matter authorities toward a goal of meeting Creative Intent
  • Previous Cruise line experience preferred.

The Perks  

  • 25 days annual leave 

  • Private medical insurance & dental care 

  • Free Park Entry: You will have the opportunity to enter any of our parks with your family and friends for free 

  • Disney Discounts: you are entitled to discounts on designated Disney products, resort F&B and ticketing 

  • Excellent parental and guardian leave 

  • Employee Resource Groups – WOMEN @ Disney, Disney DIVERSITY, Disney PRIDE, ENABLED, and our Mental Health & Wellbeing Group, TRUST. 

The Walt Disney Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We strive to be a diverse workforce that is representative of our audiences, and where all can thrive and belong. Disney is committed to forming a team that includes and respects a variety of voices, identities, backgrounds, experiences and perspectives.  

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation. 

 

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