Project Management Lead - Film Studio

Job description

Role Purpose Serve as the strategic coordination and project management focal point for the Film Studio asset, enabling the General Manager to maintain a single, decision-ready view of executive priorities, strategic initiatives, risks, milestones, and cross-functional actions. The role is responsible for establishing disciplined PMO routines, coordinating leadership requests, tracking implementation progress, and ensuring high-quality reporting and decision support across activation and steady-state operations. Key Responsibilities • Provide end-to-end oversight of strategic initiatives, executive priorities, and cross-functional projects across the Film Studio asset. • Manage the General Manager’s strategic agenda, leadership priorities, action trackers, decision logs, and executive follow-ups. • Establish PMO governance routines, project reporting standards, milestone tracking, and escalation mechanisms. • Track project risks, dependencies, issues, decisions, and corrective actions across operational, commercial, financial, and corporate workstreams. • Act as the primary coordination interface between the General Manager, functional teams, shared service stakeholders, consultants, and external parties. • Coordinate strategic requests from senior leadership and external stakeholders, ensuring timely responses, ownership assignment, and progress visibility. • Prepare executive reports, dashboards, briefing notes, presentations, and decision-support materials for leadership review. • Support strategic planning, business transformation, activation readiness, and operating model implementation initiatives. • Review and challenge outputs from teams, consultants, and vendors to ensure they are structured, accurate, and decision-ready. • Facilitate cross-functional alignment meetings, governance forums, and performance review routines. • Monitor implementation progress against approved plans, budgets, timelines, and priority outcomes. • Identify bottlenecks, unresolved dependencies, and emerging risks requiring leadership intervention. • Maintain centralized records of key initiatives, actions, approvals, and management decisions. • Support preparation for board, committee, steering, and executive update meetings where required. • Drive continuous improvement in planning discipline, reporting quality, and cross-functional execution effectiveness. KPIs • Timeliness of executive reports and dashboards • Milestone achievement rate for strategic initiatives • Closure rate of leadership actions and decisions • Accuracy and completeness of risk, issue, and dependency tracking • Quality of decision-support materials • Stakeholder satisfaction with PMO coordination • Reduction in overdue actions and unresolved escalations.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Engineering, Economics, Project Management, or related field
• MBA, Master’s degree, PMP, PRINCE2, or equivalent project management certification preferred
• 7–10 years of experience in corporate strategy, PMO, project management, transformation, management consulting, or executive office roles
• Experience managing complex cross-functional programmes and senior stakeholder interactions
• Experience working with executive leadership, C-suite stakeholders, or senior government and corporate interfaces preferred
• Preferred Background
• Management consulting, corporate strategy, PMO, transformation office, entertainment, destination, real estate, or asset activation environments
• Experience supporting new asset activation, operating model implementation, or strategic programme delivery preferred
• Technical & Functional Expectations
• Strong PMO, project governance, and executive reporting capability
• Ability to synthesize complex information into clear leadership insights and recommendations
• Strong stakeholder management, structured problem solving, and presentation skills
• Ability to work with discretion, urgency, and high attention to detail in a senior leadership environment
• Key Competencies
• Strategic coordination
• Executive communication
• Risk and issue management
• Decision support

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