Senior Organisation & Talent Solutions Advisor

Job ID 10112134 Location London, United Kingdom Business The Walt Disney Company (EMEA) Date posted Feb. 05, 2025

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Job Summary:

About the Role & Team

This is a 12 month FTC position and requires you to work from the Hammersmith office 4 days per week.

The EMEA Organisation & Talent Solutions (O&TS) team provide career enhancing opportunities for all EMEA markets, ensuring employees are supported to perform at their best. They deliver solutions across Talent & Performance, Learning & Leadership Development, Organisational Development and Employee Experience, reaching ~4,500 employees across the region.

In addition to their COE responsibilities, they are also strategic business partners to all EMEA markets, ensuring what is created is relevant and addresses local needs.

This Senior Advisor role will support the O&TS Manager across the Employee Experience team and the O&TS Senior Manager across O&TS effectiveness.

All OTS teams work closely with each other and other EMEA COEs, as well as regional partners, ensuring the right connections are being made with the employees front of mind.

What You Will Do

Connection-Led Programmes:

Set the EMEA direction for connection-led programmes which provide employees with the opportunity to facilitate meaningful relationships and build a network throughout the business, and lead on the activities below:
- Design longer term strategy for ongoing mentoring opportunities across the region
- Partnering with the Enterprise team to understand their offerings, and align where possible and relevant
- Planning and delivery of the EMEA Mentoring Marketplace and Peer Networking Programmes. Activity includes: working with external vendor MentorcliQ to build the programme on the MentorcliQ platform and continuously improve it, and building an engaging communications plan for various audiences to ensure employee awareness and engagement
- Creation of training resources and guidance for both formal and informal mentoring
- Gathering feedback and leading any required feedback initiatives (e.g. focus groups and surveys) to continuously improve offerings
- Lead and be the subject matter expert on mentoring aspects of DEI programmes (EmpowHER AND RISE) by providing advice on mentoring initiatives, setting up the programmes in MentorcliQ and managing matching
- Identifying future mentoring opportunities and connection programmes (e.g. creation of onboarding connection programme)

Internal Mobility Programmes:

Partnering with O&TS Manager to create, present and drive a proposal outlining internal mobility options for EMEA. Responsible for delivery of any agreed outputs, including but not limited to project management of any pilots/programmes identified, stakeholder management and employee communications
Consulting with EMEA Talent Acquisition, Global Mobility and Enterprise Internal Mobility teams to identify and agree career mobility opportunities for the region

O&TS Effectiveness

Lead on the O&TS Communication strategy for: targeted communications to employees (OpEx, Executives, Manager/People Manager) and HR/HRBPs
- Partnering with Internal Comms and being main point of contact on behalf of O&TS team and identifying collaboration opportunities for launches
- Creating team brand for consistency and optimal engagement. Activities include assessing collateral (digital and swag), template creation and engagement activations in partnership with O&TS team
Create the HR Business Partnering model from an O&TS perspective to ensure consistent and effective partnering across O&TS members and EMEA HRBPs
Identify and plan sessions to upskill the O&TS team, including managing the learning series, guest speakers and internal ‘team bootcamps’
- Partnering with the Senior Manager on team offsites
- Assessing technologies to support the roll out of O&TS effectiveness in partnership with Senior Advisor. Implement tools and technology such as Smartsheet to support the team.
As needed, support VP(s) HR in any FY25 executive engagement

Business Partnering:

Provide partnership to HRBPS across EMEA market(s) and UK lines of business on relevant OTS needs and solutions for their countries or business areas
Ad-hoc support on other EMEA O&TS projects and initiatives dependent on business requirements

Required Qualifications & Skills

Demonstrable experience of successfully consulting and partnering with a wide range of stakeholders across all levels, different areas of expertise and markets, to design and deliver impactful solutions
Excellent presentation skills, both verbally and written, with demonstrable experience in presenting and connecting complex messages in an engaging and digestible manner
Ability to analyse, interpret and translate complex data into accessible messages and presentations
Excellent project management experience and expectation management
Experience in developing junior team members, including shared resources with other team responsibilities
Ability to spot opportunities to collaborate and partner effectively across other teams
Resiliency and ability to thrive amidst ambiguity and adapt to changing circumstances and priorities
Strong problem-solving skills, attention to detail, including exceptional time management and prioritisation abilities
Ability to create strategies and approaches and associated delivery plans

The Perks

25 days annual leave
Private medical insurance & dental care
Free Park Entry: You will have the opportunity to enter any of our parks with your family and friends for free
Disney Discounts: you are entitled to discounts on designated Disney products, resort F&B and ticketing
Excellent parental and guardian leave
Employee Resource Groups – WOMEN @ Disney, Disney DIVERSITY, Disney PRIDE, ENABLED, and our Mental Health & Wellbeing Group, TRUST.

The Walt Disney Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We strive to be a diverse workforce that is representative of our audiences, and where all can thrive and belong. Disney is committed to forming a team that includes and respects a variety of voices, identities, backgrounds, experiences and perspectives.

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About The Walt Disney Company (EMEA):

Disney EMEA aims to drive growth, innovation and brand affinity across an extremely diverse collection of countries with a team of over 6,000 employees operating in 59 markets with offices in 29 countries.

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 The Walt Disney Company Limited, which is part of a business we call The Walt Disney Company (EMEA).

The Walt Disney Company Limited is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, colour, religion or belief, sex, nationality, ethnic or national origin, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, disability or pregnancy or maternity. Disney fosters a business culture where ideas and decisions from all people help us grow, innovate, create the best stories and be relevant in a rapidly changing world.

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