Senior Product Design and Development Manager
申請 稍後繼續申請 Job ID 10101223 職位地點 倫敦, 英国 有意工作的公司 Disney Experiences 張貼日期 2024/10/01工作概要:
About the Role & Team
Set and lead the product design direction for relevant areas of responsibility, ensuring output meets overarching product strategy and commercial goals.
This role will require you to be onsite 4 days a week.
What You Will Do
Lead, run, and develop team, ensuring consistent, appropriate direction and feedback is given to grow and develop each individual
Encouraging the team to be globally aware of current product trends that can be interpreted through a Disney lens
Work closely with the softlines, operations, creative, commercial, senior management and product creation teams regionally across all relevant categories and franchises to deliver commercial results and strategy
Focus on integration across EMEA, strategically aligning teams, policies, systems and processes as the highest priority, championing EMEA as a global centre of excellence, raising regional creativity by supporting and leading pitch creation, regional briefing, trend analysis, asset usage across franchise and innovation
Demonstrate and operate with an in-depth understanding of the EMEA markets’, understanding market segmentation, country specifics, and franchise diversity, elevating product accordingly and lead and encourage to deliver outstanding product ideation driving commercial strategy and business growth
Achieve the earned revenue targets and exceed targeted KPIs on quality and on time approvals
Coordinate comp shops, and lead internal trend and design workshops and franchise ideation sessions across category/franchise and market segmentation, providing creative and design support to the markets collaborating and exploring untapped categories
Service the global strategic brand pillars regionally to leverage and bring together diverse teams, knowledge, geographies and creative talent, identifying new product opportunities, which will inspire the business to produce first class conceptual designs and pitch to prospective/existing partners
Work with creative and operations on availability of style guides, to ensure licensees are provided appropriate creative assets for product creation, developing new assets as required via the creative teams and against the specific needs of the category
Coordinate, in tandem with operations, regional brand management approvals and build and maintain a process and framework for approval timelines
Be responsible for calenderisation, in line with the business brief and KPIs, with particular attention to design development timelines and deliverables with regional partners
Manage across accounts from concept through to final approved product and to assess pre and post quality delivery mitigating risk and ensuring product is fit for purpose, fit for partner and viable to go to market, giving feedback to team accordingly
Reporting and analysis of product approvals with full visibility of the critical path and calendars to management, providing requested information when required
We will be offering creative input and trend direction to inspire licensees/retailers and help drive quality product
Required Qualifications & Skills
Proven commercial design experience related to relevant category, essential, with demonstrable experience in briefing and managing external/internal designers and/or agencies
Excellent leadership skills with a strong ability to network successfully with multiple internal and external customers, driving the commercial strategy to achieve success
A strong sense for global home and stationery trend and can support a highly skilled team
Accountable for the achievement of the earned revenue for select account and driving initiatives to exceed targeted KPIs on quality and on time approvals
Experience within a similar role within a consumer products commercialisation environment, essential
An advanced knowledge of trends within the industry of relevant category and the broader world of design with working knowledge of common manufacturing techniques and their application in production
An ability to communicate design ideas using CAD drawing, computer techniques and/or third party design resources
Understanding of fabric, colour, and product design
Tried experience of crafting prototypes or models
The Perks
25 days annual leave
Private medical insurance & dental care
Free Park Entry: You will have the opportunity to enter any of our parks with your family and friends for free
Disney Discounts: you are entitled to discounts on designated Disney products, resort F&B and ticketing
Excellent parental and guardian leave
Employee Resource Groups – WOMEN @ Disney, Disney DIVERSITY, Disney PRIDE, ENABLED, and our Mental Health & Wellbeing Group, TRUST.
The Walt Disney Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We strive to be a diverse workforce that is representative of our audiences, and where all can thrive and belong. Disney is committed to forming a team that includes and respects a variety of voices, identities, backgrounds, experiences and perspectives.
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
關於 Disney Experiences:
Disney Experiences 透過世界各地的主題公園、度假村、郵輪、獨特的度假體驗、產品等,將迪士尼故事和特許經營權的魔力帶入生活。迪士尼在旅遊業中大放異彩,在美國、歐洲和亞洲擁有六大度假勝地;一流的郵輪航線;廣受歡迎的度假擁有權計劃;以及屢獲殊榮的家庭探險導遊業務。此外,迪士尼的全球消費品業務還包括全球領先的授權業務、全球最大的兒童出版品牌、全球最大的跨平台遊戲授權商之一,以及遍佈全球和網絡的迪士尼商店。
關於 The Walt Disney Company:
Walt Disney Company 連同其子公司和聯營公司,是領先的多元化國際家庭娛樂和媒體企業,其業務主要涉及三個範疇:Disney Entertainment、ESPN 及 Disney Experiences。Disney 在 1920 年代的起步之初,只是一間卡通工作室,至今已成為娛樂界的翹楚,並昂然堅守傳承,繼續為家庭中每位成員創造世界一流的故事與體驗。Disney 的故事、人物與體驗傳遍世界每個角落,深入人心。我們在 40 多個國家/地區營運業務,僱員及演藝人員攜手協力,創造全球和當地人們都珍愛的娛樂體驗。
這個職位隸屬於 The Walt Disney Company Limited, 其所屬的業務部門是 Disney Experiences。
The Walt Disney Company Limited 是提供平等機會的僱主。考慮是否聘用求職者時,將不論其年齡、種族、膚色、宗教或信仰、性別、國籍、族裔或民族血統、性取向、變性、婚姻或同性伴侶狀況、殘疾或懷孕或生育狀況。Disney 培養商業文化,所有人的想法和決策都有助我們發展、創新、創造最好的故事,並與瞬息萬變的世界息息相關。