VP OF Talent Management

The Vice President, Transformation Management Office (TMO) will lead enterprise-wide transformation across People & Culture’s most strategic initiatives. This role serves as the organization’s transformation “mission control,” ensuring complex, cross-functional work is aligned, sequenced, and executed to deliver measurable business impact.
The VP, TMO will not directly own all initiatives, but will act as the enterprise orchestrator—connecting workstreams, surfacing dependencies, accelerating decisions, and removing barriers. This leader will shape transformation at scale by embedding agile, AI-enabled ways of working and clear mechanisms for intake, prioritization, governance, and escalation.
This is a highly visible leadership role partnering closely with senior executives across HR, Workforce Technology, Finance, and business teams. The successful candidate will operate strategically while driving disciplined execution, ensuring every transformation priority is explicitly connected to Disney’s broader business strategy.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES Enterprise Transformation Leadership Design, launch, and run the TMO as the enterprise hub for transformation work
Align and integrate initiatives across the enterprise to ensure clear prioritization and effective sequencing
Set the cadence, decision rights, escalation paths, and forums that keep work moving
Bring more agile, scalable transformation practices beyond traditional governance
Bring external market perspective on transformation, AI, and evolving operating models
Portfolio & Program Management Turn strategic priorities into clear workplans with owners, milestones, dependencies, decisions, and outcomes
Spot risks and duplication early, then push for practical mitigation
Build integrated roadmaps that show progress, risks tradeoffs, and where leadership action is needed
Facilitate executive tradeoff decisions across funding, scope, and resources
Governance & Executive Decision Support Design and lead governance forums with the right agenda, materials and decision context
Drive alignment on priorities, sequencing, tradeoffs, and required action
Keep discussions focused on choices, risks, value and accountability, not status updates
Organizational Adoption Evolve operating models, AI-enabled ways of working, and leadership behaviors
Build adoption through stakeholder engagement, communications planning, readiness checkpoints, feedback loops and change management strategies
Foster a culture of prioritization, accountability, and enterprise thinking
Value Realization & Execution Define value clearly, then track business impact, adoption, ROI, and benefits realization
Use progress reviews, course corrections, and decision checkpoints to maintain momentum
Put the tools, dashboards, and frameworks in place to track progress, adoption benefits, and risks
Stakeholder Partnership Partner with senior leaders across HR, Workforce Technology, Finance, Operations, and Corporate Functions
Act as a trusted advisor to transformation sponsors and executive stakeholders
Use structured stakeholder engagement, working sessions and executive pre-briefs to clarify ownership, resolve dependencies and build alignment before formal decision points.
Collaborate with external consulting partners, vendors, and implementation teams
Team Leadership Build a high-performing TMO team with strong talent, coaching, and clear growth paths
Create repeatable routines, templates, and standards that make the work easier to execute and scale
Partner with Internal Communications and People Analytics to reinforce adoption and impact
QUALIFICATIONS Required Experience Proven leadership of modern, large-scale, AI-powered enterprise transformations in complex, matrixed organizations
Experience building or leading a TMO, PMO, or similar transformation function
Track record driving cross-functional transformation across people, process, and technology
Experience partnering with senior executives and leading governance forums
Preferred Experience Agile portfolio management and OKR-based value realization frameworks
Future-of-work or workforce transformation experience
Management consulting background strongly preferred
Leadership Capabilities The successful candidate will demonstrate:
Exceptional executive presence and communication
Enterprise mindset and systems thinking
Ability to influence without direct authority
Strategic thinking paired with operational rigor
Comfort navigating ambiguity and complexity
Ability to drive difficult prioritization and tradeoff decisions
Resilience, adaptability, and change leadership
AI fluency
Data-driven decision-making
Bias for action, simplification, and measurable outcomes
Education Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience required; advanced degree in a related discipline preferred
The hiring range for this position in Burbank, CA is $259,600.00 - $348,100.00 per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate’s geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to the full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.

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