Senior Manager, People & Culture Workforce Intelligence
The Walt Disney Company
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Job summary
The Walt Disney Company in Burbank, CA is seeking a Senior Manager, Workforce Intelligence to build and lead an enterprise capability that shapes talent strategy and business decisions through external signals, internal data, and AI-enabled analytics.
You will partner with executive leaders to forecast workforce trends, define governance, and deliver self-service intelligence products that scale across the enterprise.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in HR, business, economics, data analytics, or organizational psychology.
- Experience translating workforce and market signals into actionable insights.
- Experience consulting senior leaders and influencing in a matrixed organization.
- Excellent storytelling and presentation skills.
- Experience building an enterprise capability with governance, priorities, and measures of success.
Responsibilities
- Lead Disney’s Workforce Intelligence strategy, roadmap, and operating model.
- Deliver foresight on labor markets, competitors, and talent trends to inform strategic workforce planning and recruiting.
- Synthesize external signals with internal data to provide evidence-based recommendations.
- Advise senior leaders on where Disney can win critical talent and how workforce strategies compare with market realities.
- Design and govern intelligence products, knowledge libraries, and self-service experiences.
- Drive AI-enabled intelligence innovation and scalable analytics workflows.
- Lead and develop a high-performing workforce intelligence team.
Skills
Education
Job description
The Senior Manager, Workforce Intelligence will build and lead Disney’s enterprise Workforce Intelligence capability. Reporting directly to the People Insights & Data Strategy VP leading Decision Intelligence, this leader will help Disney anticipate workforce challenges and opportunities before competitors do, enabling better talent, workforce, and business decisions. Inspired by the emerging discipline of Workforce Intelligence, the role will transform external workforce signals, relevant internal workforce insights, competitive talent intelligence, skills insights, and AI-enabled analytics into strategic recommendations that shape how Disney competes for talent and plans for the workforce of the future.
As a trusted advisor to executive and senior leaders, the Senior Manager will influence enterprise decisions through workforce foresight, market intelligence, data-driven recommendations, and scalable intelligence products that enable leaders to move faster and smarter.
- Define and lead Disney’s Workforce Intelligence strategy, roadmap, and operating model.
- Establish Workforce Intelligence as a critical enterprise capability that informs workforce, talent, and business decisions.
- Build team capabilities, methodologies, governance, and best practices that elevate workforce intelligence beyond traditional labor market reporting.
- Monitor and analyze labor markets, talent competitors, workforce trends, emerging skills, talent movement, and other external signals to identify strategic opportunities and risks.
- Partner with Decision Science teams to frame predictive models, workforce forecasts, scenario analyses, and prescriptive insights that support strategic workforce decisions.
- Synthesize external workforce intelligence with relevant internal workforce data, quantitative analysis, and business context to identify patterns, gaps, and opportunities and translate them into evidence-based recommendations that influence recruiting strategy, strategic workforce planning, location strategy, and future capability investments.
- Advise leaders on where Disney can realistically win critical talent, which organizations represent priority competitors or talent sources, and how workforce strategies compare with market realities.
- Deliver insights into how competitors are evolving their workforce strategies, organizational capabilities, critical skills, workforce investments, talent practices, and rewards and benefits programs.
- Define the business vision, priorities, and requirements for workforce intelligence products, self-service experiences, knowledge platforms, and intelligence delivery models, partnering with technical teams to bring solutions to life.
- Translate stakeholder needs into product uses cases and requirements, analytical methodologies, user experiences, and success measures.
- Collaborate with People Insights & Data Strategy, Workforce Transformation, data science, technology, and other cross-functional teams to build, implement, and scale designed solutions.
- Champion self-service workforce intelligence so recruiters, HR partners, workforce planners, and leaders can access trusted, actionable insights quickly and consistently.
- Develop and govern reusable knowledge libraries and intelligence products that expand enterprise access to external and internal workforce insights and reduce reliance on one-time research.
- Define the vision for AI-enabled and agentic workforce intelligence.
- Partner with analytics, technology, and data science teams to automate intelligence workflows and improve the speed, scale, and quality of workforce insights.
- Leverage emerging technologies to create sustainable and future-focused workforce intelligence capabilities.
- Serve as a trusted advisor to senior HR leaders, Talent Acquisition, Workforce Planning, and Organizational Development partners.
- Present complex workforce intelligence with clarity and conviction, translating data into compelling narratives and strategic recommendations.
- Influence data-driven decisions by providing an informed point of view, not simply reporting information.
- Lead and develop a team of workforce Intelligence strategists.
- Provide analytical stewardship for complex work, including constructively challenging methodologies, assumptions, interpretations, and recommendations.
- Foster a culture of strategic thinking, analytical curiosity, innovation, business acumen, and executive influence.
- Build team capabilities in workforce foresight, competitive intelligence, labor market intelligence, data storytelling, and advisory consulting.
This leader will:
- Enable strategic workforce planning at Disney by anticipating workforce challenges and opportunities before competitors do.
- Elevate how Disney recruits, competes for talent, and plans for future workforce needs.
- Collaborate to design and deliver intelligence capabilities and products, not just reports.
- Influence enterprise decisions through evidence-based recommendations and workforce foresight.
- Establish Workforce Intelligence as a trusted, strategic capability across the enterprise.
- Strong analytical capability, with experience translating complex workforce and market signals into actionable insights and recommendations.
- Deep knowledge of labor markets, workforce trends, talent movement, emerging skills, and competitive workforce practices, with the ability to connect external signals to talent and workforce strategy.
- Demonstrated experience consulting and advising senior leaders, including collaborating, building consensus, and influencing without direct control in a highly matrixed organization.
- Exceptional storytelling and presentation-building skills, with the ability to translate complex analytical concepts into simple, actionable insights for non-technical audiences.
- Experience building and leading a new enterprise capability, including defining strategy, priorities, methodologies, operating models, governance, and measures of success.
- Experience translating business needs into products use cases and requirements, then collaborating with data science and technology partners to build the solution.
- Proven experience collaborating across multidisciplinary teams, including data science, technology, Workforce Planning, and organizational development teams.
- Excellent program management and organizational skills including experience leading cross-functional initiatives and managing multiple projects simultaneously.
- Strong attention to detail and commitment to effectively handling confidential information in all aspects of workforce analytics and HR partnership.
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in a relevant discipline such as HR, business, economics, data analytics, or organizational psychology or related field
- Experience designing self-service analytics, intelligence products, or knowledge platforms that expand access to insights at scale.·
- Experience with AI-enabled analytics, automation, agentic workflows, predictive analytics, or other emerging workforce intelligence technologies.
- Experience applying external workforce intelligence to Strategic Workforce Planning, recruiting strategy, location strategy, skills and capability planning, or rewards and benefits decisions.
- Experience operating within a large, complex, global organization with varied businesses, talent markets, and workforce needs.
- A minimum of 5-years’ of relevant experience, including a minimum of 2-years’ of management experience leading teams or leaders in workforce intelligence, workforce planning, people analytics, labor market intelligence, competitive intelligence, or a related discipline.
The hiring range for this position in Burbank, CA is $187,500 – $229,100 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.
This position is with Disney HR Strategies & Services, LLC, which is part of a business we call The Walt Disney Company (Corporate).
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Disney HR Strategies & Services, LLC is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. Disney champions a business environment where ideas and decisions from all people help us grow, innovate, create the best stories and be relevant in a constantly evolving world.
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Burbank,California
The Walt Disney Company (Corporate)
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