Costume Development Producer – Internal Assignment (IA)/Project Hire (PH)

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 Costume Development Producer is a leader responsible for a team of highly collaborative professionals that handle the development of ready-to-wear garments for our cast working in attractions, food and beverage and hotels. Successful candidates will lead the development lifecycle from fiscal feasibility through implementation.

This position reports to the Manager, Costume Design & Development

This is a temporary role with no guarantee of permanent placement.

What You Will Do

• Provide daily leadership, coaching, and mentoring to a team of direct & indirect reports, including ensuring the team receives accurate training and understands their role and how to perform it.

• Review and prepare workflow, resource needs, and action plans while ensuring efficiency, quality, and customer service standards are met

• Create financial estimates, spend plans, and regular ongoing financial report-outs for all active projects

• Ensure costume standards are being met for operational costumes including but not limited to area functionality, area staffing strategies and cost comparisons.

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

• Maintain a safe and healthy work environment by establishing, following, and implementing standards and procedures and aligning with Company guidelines

• Establish an open and encouraging working relationship with co-workers and support staff across the organization, and across partnering teams including but not limited to Art Directors, Inventory Planning and Buying teams.

• Proactively identify operational issues, recommend and implement strategies to resolve

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years experience in the garment industry with a focus on ready-to-wear/uniform/apparel product development

• 5+ years experience leading salaried and hourly non-union employees

• Experience delivering uniform/apparel development projects timely and on-budget while communicating with executive leadership, sponsors, and clients

• Problem-solving and conflict resolution experience

• Experience working in a fast-paced environment with competing tasks

• Experience providing customer service to internal and external customers, including meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction

• Experience delivering direct written and oral feedback

• Experience communicating (written & verbal) with all levels of partners with focus on Executive communication

• Experience collaborating and working through compromise that result in win/win agreements and outcomes

• Experience facilitating team meetings and large workshops to drive commitments and accountability

• Experience working in a business environment where cost benefit and return on investment analysis are key decision factors

• Ability to drive between work locations in a given day

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

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

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with product lifecycle management (PLM) applications

• Experience with project and/or product management

Education

• High School diploma or equivalent is required

• Advanced degree in Costuming, Fashion, Apparel, 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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