Manager, Global Business Transformation

Job Description

Your New Role

The Manager position will be part of the Global Business Transformation team at Warner Bros. Discovery, and will primarily be focused on the management of complex projects that span across multiple functions and regions. Major components of this will include structuring, prioritization and execution of analysis to support business critical projects and decision-making across all divisions.

The position will demand very strong analytical skills, organizational and structuring abilities, client management and problem-solving skills, and a demonstrated track record of successful collaboration/partnership with cross-functional teams both in the US and internationally, including senior / executive business stakeholders and corporate groups.

The ability to independently build and maintain productive relationships with multiple senior global stakeholders is essential, as well as strong business presence and communication skills.

Your Role Accountabilities

Strategic Planning and Problem Structuring - Guide strategic thinking to identify, prioritize, design, structure and manage projects that support WBD strategic and operational priorities
• Maintain updated understanding of WBD strategy and interactions among stakeholders
• Support and lead in identification, definition, and structuring of operational implications from WBD strategic priorities
• Support the identification and structuring of issues/questions to be solved, and the structuring of related projects
• Support and lead the definition and socialization of analytical frameworks to support strategy execution
• Responsible for the appropriate pace/on time execution of projects
• Prepare and manage project plans and timelines
• Assemble representative project teams
• Conduct status meetings
• Escalate issues as required
• Maintain updated documentation of projects
• Define relevant financial and metric information and coordinate effort to ensure appropriate tracking

Client Management and Communication – Develop, manage, and cultivate relationships with key stakeholders to help support planning and execution of projects
• Facilitate flow of information between stakeholders (through both strong written and verbal communication)
• Act as catalyst for effective alignment between groups: help expose needs, interdependency, limitations, constraints, and mitigate potential silo approaches
• Document and present findings from analysis process
• Establish productive and collaborative relationships with peers and senior / executive stakeholders in wider WBD business

Analysis – Conduct analysis to identify solutions, present findings and help execute changes to business process that align to WBD strategic goals
• Perform detailed analysis tasks that include: process mapping/design, data gathering/validation, data modeling/analysis, and other relevant tasks related to major project milestones
• Help identify relevant links, interdependencies, and synergies within WBD business
• Translate links/interdependencies within WBD business into relevant solutions that support project definition or alignment of strategy within the wider WBD business
• Identify and prioritize main issues/analysis
• Support overall problem solving approach
• Define and/or leverage analytical frameworks for analysis
• Syndicate analysis and incorporate feedback

Qualifications & Experience
• 4-6+ Years of Experience with strong emphasis on experience in strategy/management consulting or another discipline which focuses on problem structuring
• Media & Entertainment experience is a plus
• Education: BA with MBA preferred
• Strong problem-solving skills.
• Strong facilitation and negotiation skills.
• Strong ability to manage multiple simultaneous projects and articulate the dependencies and interrelationships.
• Excellent organizational planning and process management / process reengineering skills
• Proven executive-level stakeholder engagement and communication skills, both written and oral
• Strong PowerPoint / Excel acumen and narrative creation
• Knowledge of WBD stakeholders and communication style a plus

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-gm22k2-216-73-216-118-42 in your application.