Description:
This position will focus on the execution and management of critical strategic and operational projects within WBD, as well as creating/monitoring the strategic pipeline of initiatives to support ongoing business transformation. This position is integral in defining an opportunity pipeline strategy asandanaging implementation dependencies across the organization. The position will demand very strong organizational and structuring skills, strong analytics, a high degree of collaboration/partnership with members of different groups both domestically and internationally, including senior business stakeholders and corporate groups. The ability to independently shepherd complex interactions and situations is essential.
Your Role Accountabilities
- Provide strategic continuous improvement pipeline management leadership
- Act as a thought partner for business unit teams; identify transformative opportunities, help to shape strategic plans, bring in cross-functional expertise where needed, and drive the initiative planning process
- Provide mentorship on business cases, identifying the business impact, probability of satisfying business needs, anticipated business benefits, and risks and consequences of failure
- Work closely with business leads on key projects and programs to optimize ROI on project investments by leading and facilitating courageous dialogue, challenging opinions, and influencing decision making at all levels of the organization
- Provide project and change management leadership
- Support Business and Corporate teams in the identification and structuring of issues/questions to be solved, and the subsequent structuring of a project and execution plan
- Develop strong cross-functional partnerships and relationships to support initiatives. Collaborate with partners to provide relevant and actionable project insights:; track and ensure completion of project tasks
- Requires strong leadership skills to bring senior stakeholders together and develop a feasible, rigorous plan for execution along with negotiation across business units when goals do not align
- Conduct and facilitate project kick-offs, stand-up meetings, team meetings, brainstorming sessions, and manage risk and change
Qualifications & Experience
- 8+ years of project management or operational process leadership experience, media industry preferred
- Bachelor’s degree in Industrial/production Engineering, Business Administration, Operations Management, or related field or equivalent experience.
- MBA and/or PMP Certification preferred
- Strong group leadership skills.
- Analytical acumen and a high strategic solution orientation.
- Capability in influencing and guiding discussions as a key stakeholder and promoter of critical capability and process improvements.
- Skill in conducting effective questioning to break down complex issues
- Strong facilitation and negotiation skills
- Effective stakeholder management builds commitment and trust, and influences others positively.
- Strong ability to manage complex projects with multiple stakeholders and articulate the dependencies and interrelationships.
- Experience proactively driving enterprise/systemic change
- Demonstrates a result-based and adaptive leadership style with strong impact and influence skills.
- Strong change management experience and the ability to articulate solutions at varying degrees of granularity to different audiences.
- Strong written and oral communication skills to include the ability to articulate problems and solutions clearly, to conduct brainstorming sessions, etc.
- Experience managing a project’s financial business case preferred.
- Organizational, project, and priority management skills for planning, executing and following up on issues, projects and daily responsibilities in order to meet established deadlines.
- Demonstrated ability to organize information for presentation to senior leadership.