Show Manager Senior, Walt Disney Imagineering
Jetzt bewerben Später bewerben Job ID 10111590 Standort London, Vereinigtes Königreich Veröffentlichungsdatum 10/02/2025 Unternehmen Walt Disney ImagineeringJob-Zusammenfassung:
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.
Über Walt Disney Imagineering:
Gegründet 1952 als WED Enterprises, um den weltweit ersten Themenpark zu entwerfen und zu bauen – Disneyland – ist Walt Disney Imagineering (WDI) der Ort, an dem Phantasie und Kreativität mit modernster Technologie kombiniert werden, um unvergessliche Erfahrungen zu schaffen. WDI ist die kreative Kraft, die sich alle Disney-Themenparks, Resorts, Attraktionen und Kreuzfahrtschiffe weltweit ausdenkt, entwirft und baut. Die einzigartige Stärke von Imagineering liegt in seinem vielfältigen globalen Team von kreativen und technischen Fachleuten, die auf Disneys Tradition des Geschichtenerzählens aufbauen und neue Formen der Unterhaltung entwickeln. Die Imagineers, die diese einzigartige Mischung aus Kunst und Wissenschaft praktizieren, arbeiten in mehr als 100 Disziplinen, um eine Idee von der Konzeptphase des „blauen Himmels“ bis zum Eröffnungstag zu verwirklichen.
Über The Walt Disney Company:
Die Walt Disney Company ist zusammen mit ihren Tochtergesellschaften und verbundenen Unternehmen ein führendes, diversifiziertes internationales Familienunterhaltungs- und Medienunternehmen mit folgenden Geschäftsbereichen: Disney Entertainment, ESPN sowie Disney Experiences. Von seinen bescheidenen Anfängen als Zeichentrickfilmstudio in den 1920er Jahren bis zu seiner aktuellen Vorreiterrolle in der Unterhaltungsindustrie trägt Disney stolz sein Erbe weiter und bietet Geschichten und Erlebnisse von Weltklasse, die alle Familienmitglieder bezaubern. Disneys Geschichten, Figuren und Abenteuer erreichen Verbraucher und Gäste aus allen Teilen der Welt. Gemeinsam schaffen unsere Mitarbeiter und Darsteller aus Niederlassungen in über 40 Ländern der Welt Unterhaltungserlebnisse, die sowohl auf globaler Ebene als auch im heimischen Umfeld begeistern.
Diese Position ist bei Magical Cruise Co., Ltd, das Teil eines Geschäftssegments ist, das wir Walt Disney Imagineering nennen.
Magical Cruise Co., Ltd bietet als Arbeitgeber Chancengleichheit. Alter, ethnische Zugehörigkeit, Hautfarbe, Religion oder Weltanschauung, Geschlecht, Nationalität oder Herkunft aus einem bestimmten Land, sexuelle Orientierung, Geschlechtsangleichung, Familienstand, Behinderung, Schwangerschaft oder Mutterschaft von Bewerbern fließen nicht in die Entscheidung über die Vergabe einer Stelle mit ein. Disney fördert eine Unternehmenskultur, in der die Ideen und Entscheidungen aller Mitarbeiter uns helfen, zu wachsen, zu innovieren, die besten Geschichten zu schreiben und in einer sich schnell verändernden Welt wichtig zu sein.