
Project Manager, Principle
BENEFITS AND PERKS
Shanghai Disney Resort offers extensive benefits and perks to our cast members.

"Here, we create magic every day! Being able to work with the team on new projects and witnessing Guests jumping for joy and regaining their childlike innocence is what gets me the most!"
Laura, Integrated Facility Planning Manager, Facility and Operations Services
Job Summary:
Overview:
Lead large projects, complex attractions, or portfolios of smaller projects with accountability for scope, schedule, budget, integration, documentation, safety, & quality
Job Scope:
- Develop the project delivery strategy, ensure team understanding, and lead the team in delivering in accordance with the defined strategies; periodically reassess strategies for effectiveness and change course when needed
- Establish a project culture of proactive change and risk management in addition to leading the implementation, and ensuring the health of these programs
- Lead the project in advanced problem solving and reaching balanced, timely decisions with incomplete or unclear information in a manner that ensures team buy in
- Understand advanced project sequencing and integration relationships, provoke discussions that lead to identifying efficiency gains, and contribute to innovative solutions
- Effectively handle project contingency, authorize its use, and identify the opportunity to reduce cost throughout the project lifecycle to return funds to contingency
- Lead negotiations for contracts, project changes, and claims
- Deliver succinct, highly effective presentations and recommendations to executive management including team preparation
- Reconcile challenging agendas, influence outcomes, work towards results, and provide focus and structure to teams to optimize project performance
- Demonstrate good situational awareness and use basic emotional intelligence to positively influence outcomes
- Supervise the team, resolve staffing requirements, and conduct performance evaluations
- Conduct independent project health checks
- Leverage lessons learned and standard methodologies to increase project efficiency, reduce risk, and educate the team
Core Attributes:
- Possess an advanced understanding of project estimates, including the basis of estimate, assumptions, exclusions, and risks; help to identify estimate gaps; understand trade-offs in factors that impact the estimate and knock-on effects; align the team in understanding and delivering within the baseline parameters
- Possess an advanced understanding of project schedules from development through completion of the project. Align the team in understanding and delivering within the schedule baseline parameters. Must be a key driver in developing schedule risk mitigation strategies and understand the interdependencies of the schedule activities
- Create impactful teams through leadership style, team design and chemistry, continuous alignment, clear communication of goals and action plans, decisiveness, and feedback on performance
- Collaborate, build balanced cross-functional relationships, and provide leadership to internal and external organizations including project team, design studios, operations, municipalities, vendors, and contractors
- Act as an agent for change and continuous improvement; champion knowledge sharing to the team and WDI PM community including training and lessons learned
- Serve as a trainer and develop training material, including functional standards, guidelines, best practices, and templates
- Support recruiting and developing talent
Technical Skills:
4 year undergraduate degree, preferably in a technical field such as engineering, architecture, construction management, or 8 years equivalent work experience. Continuing education and studies at the post graduate level (i.e. MBA or Master’s degree in applicable field) desirable.
Specialized Skills:
- Ability to manage through conflict, and complexity and to problem-solve issues to resolution
- Highly adaptable; able to change direction frequently without losing effectiveness or demonstrating distress
- Strong decision-making and drive for results
- Critical and strategic thinking skills
- Executive partnering skills
- Situational awareness and a basic command of emotional intelligence
- Displays cultural sensitivity and maintains effectiveness globally
- High-stress tolerance and able to help diffuse team stress
- Highly effective delegator
- Talent recruiting and development skills
- Excellent communication skills individually and in large group settings
Experience:
- Minimum of 10 years of relevant experience
- Significant experience in all phases of project delivery from conceptual through close-out
- Minimum five years of direct supervisory experience
- Significant contract administration and claims management experience
- Themed entertainment experience preferred
About Shanghai Disney Resort:
Shanghai Disney Resort, the first Disney resort in Mainland China, is a place where friends and families can escape together to a whole new world of fantasy, imagination, creativity and adventure. The resort is home to the Shanghai Disneyland theme park; two themed hotels; Disneytown, a large shopping, dining and entertainment district; a Broadway-style theatre; Wishing Star Park and other outdoor recreation areas. Shanghai Disney Resort Cast Members provide world-class service to guests, and the resort brings classic Disney stories and characters to life with authentic cultural touches and themes tailored specifically for the people of China. Shanghai Disney Resort offers something for everyone – thrilling adventures, lush gardens where guests can relax together and enriching interactive experiences.
About The Walt Disney Company:
The Walt Disney Company, together with its subsidiaries and affiliates, is a leading diversified international family entertainment and media enterprise that includes three core business segments: Disney Entertainment, ESPN, and Disney Experiences. From humble beginnings as a cartoon studio in the 1920s to its preeminent name in the entertainment industry today, Disney proudly continues its legacy of creating world-class stories and experiences for every member of the family. Disney’s stories, characters and experiences reach consumers and guests from every corner of the globe. With operations in more than 40 countries, our employees and cast members work together to create entertainment experiences that are both universally and locally cherished.
This position is with Shanghai Intl TP&R Mgmt Company, Ltd., which is part of a business we call Shanghai Disney Resort.
Specific benefits vary between different roles and may be adjusted according to company policy. Shanghai Disney Resort does not charge a fee to submit job applications and has not authorized any individual or company to charge to do so. Please always check our official channels or platforms for the most relevant recruitment information.
It is the policy of the Company to provide equal opportunity for all employees and candidates for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, family status, sexual orientation, national origin, age, marital status, covered veteran status, intellectual or physical disability, pregnancy, nationality/ethnicity, migrant worker status, carrier of infectious diseases status or any other category of persons to the extent provided by law. The “Equal Employment Opportunity” in this policy extends, but is not limited, to recruitment and employment, promotion, demotion, transfer, layoff, termination, rate of pay, and other forms of compensation, education, and training.
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