Manager, HR Business Partner

Disney’s Direct to Consumer team oversees the Streaming businesses within Disney Entertainment, helping to bring The Walt Disney Company’s best-in-class storytelling to fans and families everywhere. The DTC Human Resources team plays a critical role alongside the DTC team by engaging employees, inspiring change, and enabling the businesses to achieve results. How do we do this? By shaping the employee experience on all levels. By partnering with our clients to create and implement innovative business strategies. By being a true thought partner and proactively anticipating business cycles. By fostering leadership success and being experts in change management. By enabling wise decisions by using business data, metrics and external market insights.

As a forward-looking HR leader supporting our DTC organization, you will serve as a strategic business partner to senior leadership by developing and delivering integrated and inclusive HR Services Strategy Development, Organization Design, Talent Management, Organizational Effectiveness, Change & Transition Management, DE&I and Functional HR Integration.          

Responsibilities:

• Establish and maintain a deep understanding of the organization and DTC business, as well as emerging trends in talent management and organizational dynamics across the industry

• Build effective and productive working relationships with internal stakeholders and clients, at all levels of the organization

• Drive people engagement strategies that align with business priorities and foster an environment where all employees are respected and valued

• Coach business leaders and employees on HR policies and processes, including talent planning, learning and development, and performance management to promote engagement and a culture of continuous growth and development

• Translate near and long-term operating goals into HR strategies; initiate and implement the work with key stakeholders and functional partners to ensure appropriate solutions are delivered to address business strategies

• Work closely with functional partners with heavy intersection with Compensation, Talent Acquisition, Learning & Talent Solutions and Employee Relations for both day-to-day needs and long-term projects

• Assess talent capabilities and development needs based on business strategy in order to help close gaps between current and future skill sets

• Integrate diversity and inclusion strategies and priorities into business plans

• Build compelling presentations leveraging workforce analytics and insights to focus leaders on relevant business issues and assessing potential solutions  

• Be an effective bridge builder across all functions and levels within the organization

• Challenge the status quo; pursue different approaches to our work by demonstrating flexibility, nimbleness, transparency, agility and global thinking

Work Experience and Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience in human resources, organization development, or related talent planning field 

• You position yourself as credible. You garner respect, act with integrity, and keep commitments.

• You are proactive. You have a point of view, challenge assumptions, and take initiative.

• You are a trusted thought-partner. You build relationships and delivers results.

• You are a proven self-starter. You see the big picture but handle the details with ease.

• You can manage multiple client groups and prioritize complex projects in a fast-paced and high volume, matrixed environment

• You are an effective consultant. You build awareness on key organizational issues, as well as consensus for relevant solutions. You guide stakeholders to drive org improvement and change.

• You maintain a broad view of the business and deliver solutions that balance individual client and overall DTC needs. 

• You manage and thrive within ambiguity. 

Education:

• BA/BS degree in Human Resources, Organizational Development, Business or equivalent experience 

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The hiring range for this position in California is $137,100 to $167,500 per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate’s geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to the full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.