Strategic Director, Centralized Services & Facilities

Sonypictures; Culver City (CA); On-site; USD 159,000 - 199,000; Full time

Job summary

Sony Pictures Entertainment in Culver City, CA, seeks a Director of Strategy & Centralized Services to oversee the Studio Service Center, IWMS (Archibus), procure-to-pay, payroll processing, and analytics. You will partner with senior leadership to shape department strategy and drive data-driven improvements.

This role leads governance, policy development, and cross-functional programs (OKRs, Good to Great), and requires strong ops leadership, stakeholder management, and executive communications.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree preferred or equivalent experience in operations.
• Experience with IWMS platforms such as Archibus or similar.
• Strong leadership and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Experience in procurement-to-pay and financial administration.
• Experience developing OKR programs and dashboards.

Responsibilities

• Oversee SSC and Administrative teams with continuous improvement.
• Lead end-to-end procure-to-pay administration and process standardization.
• Govern budgeting, reporting, and analytics for the department.
• Develop and maintain policies, procedures, and controls.
• Partner with PX, Finance, Procurement and other functions to improve service delivery.
• Develop executive presentations and leadership communications.

Skills

Business operations

Administrative management

Cross-functional partnership

Executive communication

Project management

Stakeholder management

Data analysis

Process improvement

Leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration/Facilities Management/Operations Management

Equivalent professional experience

Tools

Archibus

IWMS

SAP

ServiceNow

Power BI

AI-enabled productivity tools

Job description

Sony Pictures Entertainment in Culver City, CA, seeks a Director of Strategy & Centralized Services to oversee the Studio Service Center, IWMS (Archibus), procure-to-pay, payroll processing, and analytics. You will partner with senior leadership to shape department strategy and drive data-driven improvements.

This role leads governance, policy development, and cross-functional programs (OKRs, Good to Great), and requires strong ops leadership, stakeholder management, and executive communications.