Full-Time
Sr Manager
Consumer Foresight
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The Walt Disney Company
10,001+ employees
Leading producers & providers of entertainment and information
Senior
Celebration, FL, USA
Category
Business Research
Strategy Development
Business & Strategy
Required Skills
Data Analysis
Requirements
- 10+ years related experience.
- Known for strong critical thinking and analytic skills, attention to detail, innate sense of curiosity, and passion for trends, futures and foresight.
- Passion for and focus on the consumer in the development process—willing to speak up to make sure consumer needs are central to decision-making.
- Extreme comfort with uncertainty and ambiguity; flexibility and agility to adapt to rapidly shifting timelines, priorities, and inputs.
- Solid understanding of external landscape, consumer values, and macrotrends (e.g., technological, economic, regulatory, social drivers).
- Proven ability in trend-sensing and application to yield concrete, measurable business outcomes.
- Able to recognize patterns across numerous data sources and communicate the “big picture” through highly synthesized and succinct storytelling for C-suite and other senior executives and key audiences.
- In-depth experience managing multi-phase projects and working with a wide variety of data and information sources, including qualitative research, survey data, demographic and consumer trends, industry reports, academic whitepapers, and online panels.
- Proven success integrating quantitative and qualitative findings into actionable, provocative, persuasive recommendations; Measurable success in selling in ideas to partners and leadership.
- Strong communication and presentation skills; experience with large, executive audiences.
- Able to partner effectively and be widely viewed as an outstanding collaborator.
- Experience leading a team to craft clear, compelling, visually appealing deliverables; Skilled at developing talent with a focus on the collective well-being and success of the team.
- Previous experience in highly consultative planning and/or strategy roles desirable.
- Bachelor’s degree in anthropology, sociology, psychology, business, economics, or related field.
Responsibilities
- Lead a team of foresight experts to identify and articulate disruptive trends (both macro-level and by line-of-business) and anticipate changes before they impact key business drivers.
- Leverage all consumer data and market knowledge to develop insights and strategies that optimize planning for the organization.
- Move beyond traditional foresight methods by applying a balance of proven qualitative and quantitative tools to create compelling frameworks for understanding the complete consumer landscape and mapping plausible future scenarios.
- Lead research efforts (both primary and secondary) related to future consumer experiences and portfolio expansion projects.
- Partner on ad-hoc analysis and ideation sessions (line-of-business, segment and enterprise-wide).
- Leverage collaboration and innovation across the enterprise to gain multiple, genuinely new perspectives on the organization’s most challenging problems and opportunities.
- Focus on projecting and planning for discontinuous and transformational change by analyzing rapid alterations in external environments.
- Represent the Consumer Foresight team as a leader with vision, sharing the perspective on the future consumer and key macrotrends across the organization.
- Manage multiple research vendor relationships including onboarding CIMA teams and legal documentation.
Company Stage
N/A
Total Funding
N/A
Headquarters
N/A
Founded
1923