What are the responsibilities and job description for the Costuming Project Manager position at Walt Disney Imagineering?
Through innovative storytelling and collaboration, Disney Live Entertainment crafts, produces, and delivers remarkable and engaging entertainment experiences. From the intimate to the spectacular, our work can be seen at Disney theme parks, resort hotels, cruise ships, and other locations worldwide.
About Our Team
This diverse team represents a wide variety of fields and talents from technical directors, writers and lighting designers to choreographers, cosmetologists, and music producers. Together, we bring magical worlds to life through technical expertise, performance excellence, incomparable ingenuity, unparalleled spectacle… and a dash of pixie dust.
Your Role
The Project Manager is responsible for the end-to-end management of global Costuming initiatives. This includes managing projects with multi-year durations and budgets ranging from small to many millions.
Key Responsibilities
- Project Planning: Establishes project scopes, detailed business requirements, timelines, budgets, and cash flows.
- Liaison: Serves as the primary liaison between multiple teams, including Costuming (domestic and international sites), Finance, Strategic Sourcing, Legal, Technology & Digital, and external vendors.
- Methodology and Tools: Right-sizes project management methodology and tools to the individual needs of each project.
- Risk Management: Assesses project risks and formulates mitigation plans.
- Cross-Site Collaboration: Cultivates relationships with business partners in our theme parks and resorts worldwide to influence and drive projects and standard process sharing across sites.
- Reporting and Communication: Provides briefings and status reports to executives, leaders, and team members on a regular basis, identifying key milestones and critical path elements.
- Project Closure: Ensures accurate project closure, including retrospectives/lessons learned, documentation for all processes and systems, and final financial reporting.
Required Qualifications
- A minimum of 3 years of experience leading multi-year programs/projects with large budgets.
- Certification in one or more of the following areas: Project Management, Agile, Business Analysis, Six Sigma, ITIL, Supply Chain.
- Experience with multiple project management methodologies, including Waterfall, Agile, Scrum, Kanban, DMAIC, DFSS, etc.
- Experience collaborating and working through compromise that result in win/win agreements and outcomes.
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
- Ability to facilitate project meetings and large workshops to drive commitments and accountability.
- Proven ability to deliver projects timely and on-budget while communicating with executive leadership, sponsors, and clients.
- Ability to work in a business environment where cost-benefit and return-on-investment analysis are key decision factors.
- In-depth experience with project management tools such as Smartsheet, Jira, Confluence, Monday.com, MS Project, etc.
Preferred Qualifications
- Familiarity with Disney Theme Parks & Resorts, Disney Cruise Line, and Costuming operations.
- Knowledge of Costuming specific systems and technology, including RFID, GUS, SAP Inventory Management, and SAP Warehouse Management.
- Prior experience with SQL programming and business intelligence tools.
- Familiarity with supply chain principles and strategies.
- Experience leading supply chain, consulting, or business integration projects.
Education
- A high school degree or equivalent experience is required.
- An advanced degree or equivalent experience in Project Management, Business Management, Process Improvement, or related fields is preferred.
