Director, Planning, Disney Operations, EMEA
Postuler maintenant Postuler ultérieurement Job ID 10122749 Emplacement Londres, Royaume-Uni Entreprise Disney Entertainment Date de publication 30/05/2025Résumé du poste:
Job Title:
Director, Planning, Disney Operations (DO), EMEA
Overview
The Director will lead the planning function for EMEA-originated content across all Lines of Business (LOBs), overseeing and strategizing EMEA Forecast and Planning efforts, while focusing on continuous process improvement initiatives, and visibility for all key stakeholders and vendors.
Department/Group Overview
Disney Entertainment & ESPN Product and Technology (DEEPT) brings together the Company’s best-in-class product, technology, and commercialization teams together into one global organization. DEEPT is responsible for the P&L management and all distribution, network and engineering operations, sales, advertising, data, and certain key technology functions worldwide for the Company's content engines. DEEPT also manages operations of the Company's streaming services including Disney+, Hulu, ESPN+, Disney+, HotStar, and domestic broadcast and cable television networks.
DEEPT’s Distribution Operations (DO) team is responsible for the asset delivery to all Disney’s direct-to-consumer (DTC), Linear and third-party endpoints. This includes mastering services, localization operations, versioning, servicing, packaging and fulfillment. Delivery endpoints include Disney+, Hulu, Hotstar, Linear channels, VOD, Syndication, physical BluRay/DVD, and across hundreds of third-party endpoints depending on content sales deals. With the exponential increase in DTC content volumes across our regions, this organization plays the critical role of scaling distribution operations, vendor, and process strategies globally to meet the demand.
Job Summary:
This role spans the entire EMEA Content Operations workflow – from Vendor strategy and cost management; through to planning, demand and capacity management; and finally operational improvement and quality management. The role holder will identify opportunities for improvement across the chain and establish methods and processes for managing timely, efficient and cost-effective delivery of materials from Production through the Content Pipeline to meet distribution needs. The Director will partner with operations teams within EMEA and Globally, as well as business partners to provide critical information to business leaders to drive decisions related to content planning, localization, and distribution.
This role will focus on driving towards the following key outcomes:
Reliable and accurate volume forecasts for EMEA production and distribution, including Original Productions and Acquisitions supporting Direct to Consumer (Disney+/Star), Media Networks, Theatrical and Content Sales
Development of a planning and forecasting process and toolset, including aggregation of information for global demand plan, vendor capacity and system based forecast reporting
Cost management through steering the vendor sourcing strategy and identification of cost optimization opportunities
Identify efficiency through:
Timely, accurate, complete and easily accessible information
Systems evaluation -development/consolidation/retirement/integration
Performance metrics and process improvement
Leveraging strategic vendors
Managing costs – rushes – penalties – over/under commitments – lateness – defects
In addition to planning and cost management activities, this role will oversee the Quality Management team, responsible for tracking key quality metrics (Right First Time, On Time delivery), as well as identifying opportunities for operational efficiency.
As a leader of this group, you will be responsible for:
Managing and driving the EMEA Quality Management approach, expanding the set of metrics tracked, and ensuring clear action plan definitions and accountability of actions across both internal and external teams to drive quality to achieve our goals
Ensuring accurate tracking and reporting mechanisms are in place for all metrics, driving to maximize automation in reporting by collaborating with our Data Platforms teams
Developing performance dashboards that allow for faster identification of issues or trends that require management intervention for resolution
Required Experience/Skills/Training:
Experience in a planning/forecasting role, ideally within a motion picture, television or media production and distribution organization OR gained within a business consulting firm
Experience in contributing to the design and delivery of planning, forecasting and associated workflow orchestration tools
Experience managing systems, strategy, people and processes related to complex and wide-ranging planning activity
Knowledge of content production, post-production, physical, digital, broadcast distribution and localization is preferred but not essential
Ability to collaborate with, partner with, influence and persuade creative, marketing, distribution finance, legal and operational executives in the Production and distribution arena.
Comfortable in fast changing environment, with frequently changing demands, building and managing relationships with cross-functional stakeholders and circumstances.
Ability to balance technical and business issues.
Ability to communicate with both technical and business experts at all levels within the organisation.
Sur Disney Entertainment:
Chez Disney Corporate, vous verrez comment les secteurs d’activités qui animent les marques puissantes de la société se rassemblent pour former la société de divertissement la plus novatrice, développée et admirée au monde. En tant que membre d’une équipe d’entreprise, vous travaillerez avec les leaders de classe mondiale qui mettent au point les stratégies qui permettent à The Walt Disney Company de rester à la pointe du divertissement. Collaborez avec d’autres penseurs novateurs pour permettre aux meilleurs conteurs de créer des souvenirs pour des millions de familles du monde entier.
Sur The Walt Disney Company:
The Walt Disney Company, ainsi que ses filiales et sociétés affiliées, forme l’une des principales entreprises internationales diversifiées de divertissement familial et de médias. Elle comprend trois secteurs d'activités essentiels : Disney Entertainment, ESPN et Disney Experiences. Depuis ses modestes débuts en tant que studio de dessins animés dans les années 1920 jusqu’à son statut de référence actuel dans le secteur du divertissement, Disney poursuit fièrement sa tradition de création d’histoires et d’expériences exceptionnelles pour tous les membres de la famille. Les histoires, les personnages et les expériences de Disney touchent les consommateurs et les visiteurs du monde entier. À travers nos activités présentes dans plus de 40 pays, nos employés et cast members collaborent pour créer des expériences de divertissement appréciées à la fois au niveau universel et local.
Le poste est rattaché à The Walt Disney Company Limited , qui fait partie d’une entreprise que nous appelons Disney Entertainment.
The Walt Disney Company Limited est un employeur qui souscrit au principe d’égalité des chances à l’emploi. Les candidats seront pris en considération pour l’emploi sans tenir compte de l’âge, de la race, de la couleur de peau, de la religion ou des convictions, du sexe, de la nationalité, de l’origine ethnique ou nationale, de l’orientation sexuelle, du changement de sexe, du statut marital ou civil, du handicap, de la grossesse ou de la maternité. Disney favorise une culture commerciale où les idées et décisions de tous et toutes nous aident à grandir, innover, créer les meilleures histoires et être pertinents dans un monde en évolution rapide.