Sr. Manager-Emerging Business Development

Senior Manager, Emerging Business Development

The Disney Signature Experiences Emerging Business Team champions new business development projects and growth initiatives diversifying the Disney Parks, Experiences, & Products portfolio and delivering incremental revenue and OI. The team has accountability for delivering the end-to-end consumer experience and defining the product standards that maximize long term value for our consumers, cast, and shareholders. Storyliving by Disney™ was launched in 2022 and Cotino™, the first Storyliving by Disney™ community, will be built in the heart of the Greater Palm Springs area. These master-planned communities are intended to inspire residents to gather, cultivate new friendships, pursue their interests, and write the next exciting chapter in their lives while enjoying the attention to detail, unique amenities and special touches that are Disney hallmarks.

The Senior Manager, Emerging Business Development will lead the end-to-end development of amenities and physical spaces from blue sky through delivery for Storyliving by Disney communities. This will be done collectively with key partners and collaborators ensuring we maximize consumer experience, create operational efficiencies, and integrate industry insights across all areas of development. This role will report to the Director, Business Development – Emerging Businesses.

Among your main responsibilities, you will:

• Define product standards delivering upon the Disney brand promise and overall pro forma commitments.
• Develop scope, sizing and operational parameter programs for community assets including amenities, facilities, parks, trails etc.
• Collaborate with Walt Disney Imagineering and design teams to ensure that architectural designs align with site vision, goals, budgets, and timelines.
• Partner with and represent key functional areas including Operations, Security, Technology, Food and Beverage and Recreation throughout the design and construction process to ensure facilities meet needed requirements, functionality, and adjacencies to deliver seamless experience for our guests.
• Lead and facilitate aspects of project phases from concept through design construction documentation, specification preparation and delivery.
• Review and approve amenity designs and shop drawings.
• Oversee development and implementation of Operator Furnished Item capital and expense budgets inclusive of labor, sourcing, procuring, warehousing and delivery.
• Cultivate close partnerships within Emerging Businesses and across the Disney ecosystem including Global Business Development, Walt Disney Imagineering, CIMA, Entertainment, Operating Participants, Technology, and Finance
• Anticipate business risks and opportunities, proactively creating business plans to shift and substantiate planned growth.
• Analyze industry trends, local regions and competing offerings spurring product innovation and differentiation.
• Balance a bias-for-action with thoughtful planning to ensure initiatives are commercially viable and drive the highest value.
• Lead and develop direct report(s).
• Champion a culture of excellence, collaboration, diversity, and innovation.

You have:

• Minimum of 10 years of experience and functional knowledge in development, operations, innovation, strategy, or design.
• Five+ years in a leadership role, with proven ability to lead direct reports and manage projects with cross-functional teams.
• Desire to work within a new, developing business. Ability to work independently and effectively, while staying positive in a dynamic and ever-changing environment that requires constant flexibility.
• Ability to challenge the status quo while still building strategic alliances/relationships.
• Creative, solutive thinking to drive the overall consumer and cast experience.
• Proficient in viewing the big picture while also being extremely detail oriented.
• Demonstrated strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Demonstrated business intuition working with P&L, annual operating plans, and interpreting & communicating data.
• Demonstrated effectiveness for strategic and critical thinking.
• Disciplined thought process that leads to innovation and thoughtful risk-taking
• Experience managing a large volume of complex work effectively and efficiently, prioritizing continually to ensure business results are achieved.

Our Benefits: 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. Learn more about our benefits and perks at https://jobs.disneycareers.com/benefits

The Walt Disney Company is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. Disney fosters a business culture where ideas and decisions from all people help us grow, innovate, create the best stories and be relevant in a rapidly changing world.

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