Area Manager-Costume Production

Through innovative storytelling and collaboration, Disney Live Entertainment crafts, produces, and delivers remarkable and engaging entertainment experiences! From the intimate to the spectacular, our work can be seen at Disney theme parks, resort hotels, cruise ships, and other locations the world over. This diverse team – representing a wide variety of fields and talents from technical directors, writers and lighting designers to choreographers, cosmetologists, and music producers – brings magical worlds to life through technical expertise, performance excellence, incomparable ingenuity, unparalleled spectacle… and a dash of pixie dust!

The Area Manager is responsible for leading salaried, hourly union, and hourly non-union cast with specialized skills in technical design and pre-production of garment manufacturing. This role will be instrumental in providing guidance and feedback that promotes development and inclusion. The Area Manager-Costume Production focused on pre-production and will be responsible for garment estimation, resource planning and workflow for multiple teams to achieve on time and on budget product delivery.

This position report to the Manager-Costume Production & Sustainment

This is a full-time position.

What You Will Do

• Provide daily leadership, coaching, and mentoring to team of direct reports, including ensuring team receives accurate training, and they understand their role and how to perform it properly

• Lead Costume Teams that meet or exceed the expectations of Partners/Guests, ensuring a consistent product as well as a high level of customer service

• Monitor, analyze, and take action on costume inventory quantity, costume show quality, operating labor, and expenses affecting annual financial targets using programs that include but are not limited to SAP, Maximo, and YuniquePLM.

• Continually seek innovative ways of doing business

• Build and maintain strong working relationships with partners and support business requests in a fast paced environment

• Ensure division and segment strategies are being achieved

• Look for areas of opportunity to improve efficiency and strive for consistent processes within the Costuming organization

• Partner closely with other Area Managers to maintain hiring consistencies

• Oversee and establish process and Operating Guides

• Improve Guest service in this Cast-serving-Cast environment by communicating new and innovative ideas to help drive the Costuming organization to new heights.

• Participate in annual budget planning.

• Lead replenishment planning sessions or work in tandem with operational teams for annual costume production and replenishment planning

• Prepare cost estimate and the ability to fulfill project management function

• Partner with Operational Costuming areas for the procurement and disposition of Entertainment Costumes

• Understand fabrics, manufacturing, and cleaning processes as related to Entertainment Costumes

• Establish and maintain partnerships that support the implementation of new product

Required Qualifications & Skills

• 5+ years experience in a leadership role with direct and indirect reports

• 3+ years experience in Costuming, Theater, Garment Manufacturing, Fashion, or other related field

• Experience delivering feedback, mentoring, and providing re-direction to salaried and hourly cast

• Experience solving conflict and gaining consensus in a way that all partners feel heard and understood

• Experience with influencing and negotiating

• Experience communication (both written and verbal) with all levels of partners

• Experience building strong, mutually beneficial relationships with internal and external stakeholders

• Able to work around all types of fabrics, fibers, and synthetic furs

• Able to be flexible with work schedule, including extended hours, holidays, and weekends

• Able to travel domestically and/or internationally up to 10% of the time

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with electronic work order and planning software such as Maximo and Yunique PLM

• Experience working with a collective bargaining agreements and unionized Cast

• Experience in Textiles or the Apparel industry

• Knowledge of international shipping processes and global sourcing

• Experience with garment specification or technical specification writing

Education

• High School diploma or equivalent is required

• Advanced degree in Fashion, Apparel, Theatre, Merchandising, Costuming, or related fields is preferred

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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