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Sr. Manager, Strategy & Innovation
Sony Pictures
Culver City, CA, United States
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Sr. Manager, Strategy & Innovation - Home Entertainment
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (SPHE) is a Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) company. Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) is a subsidiary of Sony Entertainment Inc., a subsidiary of Tokyo-based Sony Corporation. SPE’s global operations encompass motion picture production, acquisition and distribution; television production, acquisition and distribution; television networks; digital content creation and distribution; operation of studio facilities; and development of new entertainment products, services and technologies. For additional information, go to http://www.sonypictures.com
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment encompasses all of Sony Pictures' non-theatrical transactional distribution channels, including both physical (e.g., Wal-Mart, Redbox) and digital (e.g., iTunes, DirecTV). The Strategy & Innovation team supports the President and Head of the Consumer Strategy Group of SPHE to help drive the strategy of the division and implement innovation within the Home Entertainment sector.
The team’s core mission is to:
• Explore – To actively identify transformative opportunities, innovations, and insights in order to enable profit growth and distinguish SPHE as an industry leader
• Incubate –To embolden the organization to take risks on new initiatives by partnering with commercial teams or independently driving opportunities to its fullest potential
• Advance – To transform SPHE as the industry evolves, enabling it to achieve key strategic objectives and operational efficiencies by producing solutions based on thorough analyses and insights and partnering with the organization to drive action to deliver greater value to the studio
The team’s values include:
• Growth Minded – S&I will dedicate its team to guiding transformational change within SPHE through active learning, intellectual curiosity, an insights driven recommendations, and an action-oriented lens
• Fast, Fluid, Flexible – S&I will lead the way for SPHE in adopting a nimble, action-oriented approach, with a focus on making informed but quick decisions
• Community – S&I will leverage its position within the organization to foster results driven collaborations through its rigor, industry knowledge, trust, and business and consumer-centric lens
Illustrative Projects & Initiatives
The Strategy & Innovation group supports the President of SPHE and Head of CSG on the division’s strategic priorities; project work can include any of the following:
• Facilitate the incubation of the most promising opportunities by collaborating with and leading cross-functional teams (e.g., Sales, Marketing, Finance, etc.) or external parties (e.g. vendors and startups) to design, execute, and communicate tests, and determine approach to scale (if applicable)
• Support major commercial deals (e.g joint-ventures) or objectives (e.g. windowing studies) through modeling deal economics and conducting due-diligence research in order to develop strategic recommendations
• Identify, evaluate, and champion new opportunities to delight consumers or alleviate pain points by innovating the Home Entertainment product or experience by using new technologies, apps, or by enhancing the product
• Engage with retail customers (e.g. iTunes, Amazon, Walmart) to sell-in high potential consumer-based opportunities, as well as more generally deliver thought leadership on consumer value for the home entertainment category
• Engage with external partners (consultants, universities, research agencies) on a regular basis to secure fresh perspectives and insights on best practices to enhance and/or support the consumer strategy
• Perform competitive, market or strategic analyses around a specific problem (e.g. identify technology trends and potential opportunities for SPHE) and determine rollout strategy
• Create analytical documents addressing (1) current competitive markets; (2) potential new business development opportunities or partnerships; (3) licensing arrangements; (4) operational analyses; and (5) new business concepts/models
• In addition the Senior Manager of (Strategy & Innovation) will be responsible to:
• Oversee, create, and drive project frameworks and analyses to support recommendations
• Partner with divisional leads and steer cross-divisional efforts by gathering information, project managing and delegating roles effectively
• Supervise, guide, and develop managers, senior analysts, which includes maintaining managers / senior analysts’ formal development plans and reviews
Desired Skills and Experience
Desired Competencies & Skills include the following:
• Strong initiative and the ability to work well with others in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to partner and collaborate effectively with cross-divisional functions and external partners
• Superior strategic analysis competencies – performs sophisticated hypothesis-driven analysis with only broad oversight
• Ability to understand implications of analysis and probe deeper when confronted with inconsistent or interesting findings
• Ability to draw well-integrated conclusions and tell a cohesive story from insights and analyses
• Understanding of financial principles/techniques of financial analysis, including discounted cash flows and other valuation techniques
• Enthusiasm and passion for following trends in media and entertainment
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Ability to supervise and develop analysts
• Ability to lead teams and persuade and message priorities to teams
• 4 or more years of top-tier general management consulting, other relevant internal industry-consulting roles, and/or relevant internal innovation roles at large cap companies is preferred
• MBA or similar master’s degree required
*Sony Pictures Entertainment is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, or other protected characteristics.
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