What are the responsibilities and job description for the Associate Project Manager, Planning position at The Walt Disney Studios?
The APM will provide planning support for the Studio Operations Planning team. This role will contribute to managing, planning, and tracking studio content for release on Physical Home Entertainment. The ideal candidate is a proactive self-starter who is excited to engage with team members, partners, stakeholders, and who excels in an energetic, innovative, and inclusive environment.
Responsibilities
Responsibilities
- Create, monitor and maintain content plans including generating timelines, validating milestones, and assessing risks for the Physical media line of business
- Work with Product Management to plan content by disc image (video file, audio file, subtitles, bonus content, menus) for physical SKUs
- Feasibility analysis, plan creation and maintenance for Walt Disney Studios produced bonus content for in-home physical, digital transactional, Disney and Hulu
- Maintain clear communication between Studio Operations, Product Management, Distribution Operations, global licensees and vendors
- Oversee and partner with the authoring vendors to manage bit budgets to balance quality and cost controls
- Facilitate the collection and delivery of assets to vendors and licensees
- Partner with Publicity to plan, create the manufacturing and delivery of physical awards screeners
- Exception queue management for content titles that will be managed off-plan
- Manage weekly and ad-hoc reporting
- Additional project management support as needed
- 3 years of experience in project planning or title planning
- Proficient in using applications such as Microsoft Office, G-Suite applications, and Microsoft Project
- Excellent communication skills - able to establish working relationships with a variety of diverse people across many teams and disciplines; comfortable communicating at all levels
- Experience with conflict, risk management, and problem-solving
- Excellent organizational and time management skills
- Detail-oriented; above-average data management and written communication skills
- Highly adaptable to change; nimble in accommodating new plan requirements and processes
- Bachelor’s degree
- Experience in media-related businesses (theatrical, home entertainment, streaming, etc.).
- Knowledgeable about video, audio and subtitle formats
- Understanding of Production and Post-Production workflows
- Strong sense of curiosity in approaches to solving complex problems
- Familiarity with Tableau, Power BI, other data visualizers, and Salesforce applications
Salary : $90,300 - $116,800
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