Resource Management Analyst Senior

Resource Management Analyst Senior

About the Role & Team:

Walt Disney Imagineering is the master planning, creative development, engineering, production, project management, and research and development arm of Disney Parks, Experiences and Products business segment. Representing more than 150 disciplines, its accomplished corps of Imagineers are help create Disney resorts, theme parks and attractions, hotels, water parks, real estate developments, regional entertainment venues, cruise ships and new media technology projects worldwide which includes other Disney Intellectual Property such as Marvel, Pixar and Lucasfilm.

Innovation is at the center of everything we do at WDI, and nothing reflects that more than our work environment. We celebrate collaborative thinking and promote partnerships to foster a culture of diversity and creativity. Our vision is to expand the capabilities of Imagineering into new product categories and industry-leading innovations to establish the future of entertainment.

As a member of the Resource Management Office reporting to the Manager of Resource Management within the WDI Business Planning and Integration team, the Senior Analyst provides important workload forecasting and staffing information to make project decisions. This office partners across all WDI studios and geographies to ensure integrated resource plans and processes. This team applies technical skills, analytics, and relationship skills to forecast resources, summarize recommendations and develop scorecards.

We are looking for an intellectually curious, business-savvy, analytically minded individual with an awareness of workload and staffing planning methodologies and statistical modeling.  The Sr. Analyst will provide recommendations to all levels of leadership for each of the WDI studios and geographies to optimize hiring and labor staffing.  You will perform root cause analyses to identify causes of change, anomalies, and trends.  You will partner with worldwide teams across WDI, Finance, HR and other partners to thoroughly understand existing trends and collaborate on future project scenarios.  In addition, you will assist with process improvement to identify more refined ways to collect, store and visualize data in new and evolving systems. Ultimately, this role helps ensure we have the right Imagineer, at the right place, at the right time to create amazing products for our Guests.

 You will report to the Manager – Resource Management.

This is a Full-Time role. 

What You Will Do:

• Develop and maintain project staffing profiles that identify resource needs across all WDI studios for projects with the intent of developing and recommending future business direction

• Identify new technologies and techniques for analyzing each WDI Studio with multiple internal and external clients

• Help establish, refine and maintain new resource and project staff tracking database systems, including onboard partner users

• Create and evolve dashboards used in reporting and ad hoc analyses for easy synthesis of data to provide informed recommendations

• Perform root cause analysis of model outputs and project variances to identify causes of change

• Consult with each WDI Studio to understand fluctuations in their businesses to adapt the forecasting models

• Support the WDI Business Planning and Integration team in research questions and ad hoc projects

• Partner with Menu Planning to assess the impacts of changes and inform strategic slate planning

• Partner with the Business Transformation function to identify programs that promote WDI priorities (including talent development, DEI, global integration)

• Develop enhanced correlations and relationships between the analytics of a project and the ultimate solutions presented

• Establish relationships throughout the organization

• Assist in the creation of presentation material by combining logical aspects of the story with graphics, charts, and verbiage

Required Qualifications & Skills:

• Minimum 3 years' experience in business analytics or analytical-based strategy development

• Experience with advanced analytical methods, quantitative and qualitative analytics creating dashboards using relational databases, and other data visualization software

• Experience with Excel, understanding multiple functions such as Vlookups, Pivot Tables, Solver and VBA

• Understanding of the integration of multiple data sources into clear, relevant insights that build concrete solutions

• Prior experience using data to tell well-informed, strategic stories to all levels of leadership.

• Work with partners at different levels to coordinate team efforts and in a team environment

• Experience with the creative process especially in early project phases

• Experience solving complex problems with an eye towards creative innovation and process improvement

• Collaborate, influence, and develop/maintain relationships at all levels

• Maintain and assist users with new software applications

• Prioritize work and lead high-level output accomplishing tasks at a tactical level and working through conflicting/changing priorities

Preferred Qualifications & Skills:

• 5 or more years' experience

• Knowledge and practical application of code writing in SQL and VBA, Python, C#, R, or Dataiku, other statistical computing packages

• Familiarity with resource and staffing management software

• Familiarity with Snowflake, or other data storage systems

• Prior experience working within a Mac and PC software environment

Education

• Bachelor's Degree in a qualified field of study such as Mathematics, Industrial Engineering, Statistics, Economics, Finance, or relevant work experience

• Master of Business Administration

Additional Information

Benefits and Perks: Disney offers a rewards package to help you live your best life. This includes health and savings benefits, educational opportunities and special extras that only Disney can provide. Learn more about our benefits and perks at https://jobs.disneycareers.com/benefits.

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