Senior Manager, Organizational Development

No two days are ever the same at The Walt Disney Company - particularly in Organizational Development! We’re thinkers, builders, and strategists. We tell meaningful stories that win hearts and minds. We are passionate about the work we do - and are always seeking to raise the bar on our own performance.

The Walt Disney Company (TWDC) seeks a Senior Manager, Organizational Development to join the Organizational Development Center of Excellence (OD COE) with a focus on Corporate and Enterprise clients. This team is a highly visible group within Enterprise HR that plays an integral part in supporting key business initiatives across Disney. The ideal candidate will be an advisor to HR and business leaders with a bias towards action and impact. The candidate must be comfortable being dropped into ambiguous situations and able to quickly support the team in driving change, transformation and business results. The role is based in Burbank, CA and reports to the Director, Organizational Development. This role will manage one or more OD professionals.

As a Senior Manager, Organizational Development, you will partner closely with other HR team members to consult with business leaders to identify, define, and deliver against multiple strategic projects that drive business performance across divisions, functions, and/or geographies. You will assist in the consultation, facilitation, and assessment of the business to improve ways of working. This autonomous role will also work across boundaries, functions, and geographies to enhance the effectiveness of the broader organization.

Key Responsibilities:

• Partner closely with business leaders, OD leaders and HR Business Partners to assess needs, develop recommendations, and manage projects to improve the performance of leaders, teams and organizations

• Support TWDC HR priorities and deliver OD expertise to a variety of projects, including strategy development, organization assessment, organization design, change and transition management, and culture transformation across a diverse set of clients

• Continually develop and apply broad organizational knowledge to address business and organizational challenges by recognizing patterns through an enterprise and systems thinking mindset

• Leverage project management and leadership skills to facilitate complex work and maintain stakeholder alignment; develop project schedules, plans and timelines

• Continually invest in self-development and the evolution of the OD discipline by remaining current with new developments, technologies, industry trends and innovations

• Build trust and collaborate with teams in a global and virtual environment; Partner effectively with HR Business Partners and OD leaders across the Company to transfer knowledge and skills

• Effectively prioritize time and ensure speed in delivering high-impact work

Role Expectations:

• 8 or more years of Organization Development, Change Management, Human Capital consulting or related experience, ideally with a global company

• Considered an advanced OD practitioner and can manage large scale projects across business units and support enterprise-wide projects across the company

Business Knowledge and Impact:

• Understands business context in homeroom segment and assesses situations quickly to design and implement the activities required to transform the business

• Provides OD support, guidance and recommendations to leaders and teams founded in collaborative problem solving and improve team performance.

• Drives shared responsibilities and sustainable partnerships with segment teams and HR partners

• Displays versatility to work across segments

Complexity, Autonomy and Influence:

• Manages projects independently while acquiring needed resources and developing capabilities in others to deliver project requirements

• Creates and implements plans to ensure successful change execution

• Influences stakeholder attitudes, decisions, and actions for mutual benefit

• Understands landscape and anticipates needs within homeroom segment

Consulting Capabilities:

• Brings objectivity (non-bias)

• Drives clarity, brings structure to ambiguity, and simplifies complexity

• Develops organizational alignments and cultural change activities

• Models OD competencies for direct reports and partners and ensures quality of their work

• Contracts on complications and issues while shaping resolutions, corrective actions, documents lessons learned, collects and disseminates relevant information

• Leverages data and insights from multiple sources to diagnose challenges and contributing factors, and to measure the effectiveness of client solutions

Domain Expertise:

• Demonstrates high expertise in strategy development, organization design and change management

• Engaged in building the OD practice

• Identifies new areas of capability improvement within the OD field, which enhance skills, technologies and processes

Enterprise Mindset:

• Produces Business Unit changes that also support TWDC goals and business strategies

• Understands the entire system and supports continuous improvement across TWDC

• Has in-depth knowledge of industry-wide business modeling techniques and applies appropriately

• Proactively and intentionally navigates TWDC, building relationships to connect dots and drive the work

• Enables continual improvements to change management methodology, tools and training necessary to enhance the maturity across TWDC

Required Education

• Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent experience in the field of Organization Development, Organizational Behaviors, Human Resources Management, or Business-related fields.

Preferred Education

• Master’s degree or equivalent experience in the field of Organizational Development, Organizational Behaviors, Human Resources Management, or Business-related fields.