Director, Transformation Program Management

Welcome to Warner Bros. Discovery… the stuff dreams are made of.

Who We Are…

When we say, “the stuff dreams are made of,” we’re not just referring to the world of wizards, dragons and superheroes, or even to the wonders of Planet Earth. Behind WBD’s vast portfolio of iconic content and beloved brands, are the storytellers bringing our characters to life, the creators bringing them to your living rooms and the dreamers creating what’s next…

From brilliant creatives, to technology trailblazers, across the globe, WBD offers career defining opportunities, thoughtfully curated benefits, and the tools to explore and grow into your best selves. Here you are supported, here you are celebrated, here you can thrive.

Your New Role…

This position will focus on the execution and management of key strategic and operational projects within WBD, as well as creating/monitoring the strategic pipeline of initiatives to support ongoing business transformation. This position is integral in defining an opportunity pipeline strategy as well as managing implementation dependencies across the organization. The position will demand very strong organizational and structuring skills, strong analytics, a high degree of collaboration/partnership with members of different groups both domestically and internationally, including senior business stakeholders, and corporate groups. The ability to independently shepherd complex interactions and situations is essential.

Your Role Accountabilities…

Provide strategic continuous improvement pipeline management leadership:

• Act as a thought partner for business unit teams; identify transformative opportunities, help to shape strategic plans, bring in cross-functional expertise where needed, and drive the initiative planning process
• Provide mentorship on business cases, identifying the business impact, probability of satisfying business needs, anticipated business benefits, and risks and consequences of failure
• Work closely with business leads on key projects and programs to optimize ROI on project investments by leading and facilitating courageous dialogue, challenging opinions, and influencing decision making at all levels of the organization

Provide project and change management leadership:

• Support Business and Corporate teams in the identification and structuring of issues/questions to be solved, and the subsequent structuring of a project and execution plan
• Develop strong cross-functional partnerships and relationships to support initiatives. Collaborate with partners to provide relevant and actionable project insights; track and ensure completion of project tasks
• Requires strong leadership skills to bring senior stakeholders together and develop a feasible, rigorous plan for execution along with negotiation across business units when goals do not align
• Conduct and facilitate project kick-offs, stand-up meetings, team meetings, brainstorming sessions, and manage risk and change

Qualifications & Experience…

• 8+ years project management or operational process leadership experience, media industry preferred
• Experience working with a virtual team
• Bachelor’s degree in Industrial/production Engineering, Business Administration, Operations Management or related field or equivalent experience.
• MBA and/or PMP Certification preferred
• Demonstrated ability to be a self-starter and be proactive/take initiative
• Strong group leadership skills.
• Analytical acumen and a high strategic solution orientation.
• Capability in influencing and guiding discussions as a key stakeholder and promoter of critical capability and process improvements.
• Skill in conducting effective questioning in order to break down complex issues
• Strong facilitation and negotiation skills
• Effective stakeholder management, builds commitment and trust, influences others positively.
• Strong ability to manage complex projects with multiple stakeholders and articulate the dependencies and interrelationships.
• Experience proactively driving enterprise/systemic change
• Demonstrates a result based and adaptive leadership style with strong impact and influencing skills.
• Strong change management experience and the ability to articulate solutions at varying degrees of granularity to different audiences.
• Strong written and oral communication skills to include the ability to articulate problems and solutions clearly, to conduct brainstorming sessions, etc.
• Comfort with basic accounting concepts; Experience managing a project’s financial business case preferred.
• Organizational, project, and priority management skills for planning, executing and following up on issues, projects and daily responsibilities in order to meet established deadlines.
• Demonstrated ability to organize information for presentation to senior leadership.

Hybrid Working - This role is advertised as a Hybrid work model, that combines remote and in-office work, following our current company policy and to be agreed with your Line Manager. Subject to any applicable laws, WBD / your Line Manager reserves the right to change this working agreement where this is essential to business needs and upon reasonable notice to you.

How We Get Things Done…

This last bit is probably the most important! Here at WBD, our guiding principles are the core values by which we operate and are central to how we get things done. You can find them at www.wbd.com/guiding-principles/ along with some insights from the team on what they mean and how they show up in their day to day. We hope they resonate with you and look forward to discussing them during your interview.

Championing Inclusion at WBD

Warner Bros. Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects the diversity of our society and the world around us. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, regardless of sex, gender identity, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy, parenthood, disability or any other category protected by law.If you’re a qualified candidate and you require adjustments or accommodations to search for a job opening or apply for a position, please contact us at [email protected].