Manager, Management Planning & Operations

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Manager, Management Planning & Operations (Global Partner Development & Relations)
San Mateo, CA or London, UK (hybrid*)

The Global Business Strategy & Planning (GBSP) team sits within Sony Interactive Entertainment’s (SIE) Global Partner Development & Relations (GPDR) division and ensures GPDR creates and achieves its business goals that align with the wider SIE strategy and delivers its financial and people commitments.

The team has three key responsibilities: building GPDR strategy and business plans, analyzing business performance, and managing business operations.

Our mission is to cultivate a highly connected GPDR organization enabling future success through strategy, planning & governance leadership.

This Manager position implements GPDR-wide planning and delivery, ensuring annual business rhythm and governance is maintained, and team engagements are delivered superbly.

In this role you will:

• Coordinate critical year-round projects in parallel with the GPDR governance calendar
• Lead GPDR annual meeting rhythm, ensuring effective preparation and execution, from timely material collation and submission to accurate notes and actions circulation
• Be responsible for the governance and execution of quarterly and annual GPDR commitments, including budget submissions, internal communications, and planning updates

What you’ll do:

• Maintain governance calendars to ensure GPDR delivers its key obligations on time, collaborating with contributors to maintain its accuracy and sharing regularly for wider visibility
• Implement projects, mapping out workback schedules to achieve delivery success
• Draft communications and presentation materials for Executive meetings, ensuring clear and appropriate narrative for the audience
• Handle meeting governance of GPDR Management Committee, SIE Global Management Committee, and Executive partner sessions
• Support GPDR Sync Weeks, quarterly leadership offsites, townhalls and social events, contributing to high quality materials creation
• Support integration of the GPDR annual objectives in day-to-day business, ensuring all verticals are engaged
• Administrate GPDR leadership and divisional meetings to note decisions, drive action items and cascade information to teams directly
• Monitor OPEX and headcount tracking, ensuring both fit within Corporate Planning guidelines
• Cultivate day-to-day relationships with cross-functional counterparts across Financial Planning & Operations, Commercial Finance, HR and others where appropriate
• Implement a consistent approach to new starter onboarding
• Run the GPDR Information Hub on SharePoint consistently reviewing and updating it to ensure its relevance and accuracy

You’ll be comfortable with:

• Involvement in high impact programs that affect large cohorts of internal colleagues, ensuring timelines delivered
• Working self-sufficiently sometimes within ambiguous circumstances and in fast turnaround times
• Producing high quality presentation materials with a clear and concise narrative, suitable for wide and senior audiences
• Proactively evangelizing the value and importance of the work of our team and division, ensuring appropriate consensus
• Running internal SharePoint sites for investment submissions and for employee information
• Implementing divisional and leadership meetings/events/socials, motivating engagement and attendance
• Leading meetings, driving the agenda to start and end promptly, and ensure objectives are achieved
• Drafting executive communications and reviewing with HR and senior leadership

What we’re looking for:

• 5+ years of experience in project management, business planning, business operations or similar
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills required for a wide variety of audiences across the business and up to executive level
• Robust organizational and project management capabilities, including the ability to build, lead, and monitor timelines with inter-related dependencies
• Experience in establishing and developing programs involving multiple internal functions, preferably at global scale
• Ability to work through change with both business and employee needs in mind
• Proven track record offering appropriate business solutions using data-driven insights
• Strong collaborative working style to achieve results
• A long-term strategic planner able to identify and adjust short- and medium-term workflows at pace
• A passion for getting things done simply and quickly
• Demonstrable experience crafting healthy organizations and fostering positive team culture
• Interest in gaming, gamer culture, digital entertainment and consumer electronics is advantageous
• Proficiency in English crucial
• Experience of working in a global environment an advantage

*PlayStation offers a global hybrid office/remote working model — Flex Modes — which aims to combine the flexibility of remote working with the magic of in-person collaboration. The model is built upon the principle of working together in-person as work requires, with the freedom to work remotely otherwise.

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