Business Planning & Operations Manager, PlayStation
$106.4-159.6k
2 days a week in office
Gaming and digital entertainment provider
Open for applications
Gaming and digital entertainment provider
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$106.4-159.6k
2 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a gaming experience without barriers that fits the needs of players of all abilities.
Role
Who you are
- A minimum of 5 years of experience in project management, business planning, business operations or similar
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills required for a wide variety of audiences across the business and up to executive level
- Robust organizational and project management capabilities, including the ability to build, lead, and monitor timelines with inter-related dependencies
- Experience in establishing and developing programs involving multiple internal functions, preferably at global scale
- Ability to work through change with both business and employee needs in mind
- Proven track record offering appropriate business solutions using data-driven insights
- Strong collaborative working style to achieve results
- A long-term strategic planner able to identify and adjust short- and medium-term workflows at pace
- A passion for getting things done simply and quickly
- Demonstrable experience crafting healthy organizations and fostering positive team culture
- Interest in gaming, gamer culture, digital entertainment and consumer electronics is advantageous
- Proficiency in English crucial
- Experience of working in a global environment an advantage
What the job involves
- In this role, you will lead GPDR-wide planning and execution, ensuring seamless business rhythm, effective governance, and exceptional team engagement, all while creating a connected and future-ready organization
- Coordinate critical year-round projects in parallel with the GPDR governance calendar
- Lead GPDR annual meeting rhythm, ensuring effective preparation and execution, from timely material collation and submission to accurate notes and actions circulation
- Be responsible for the governance and execution of quarterly and annual GPDR commitments, including budget submissions, internal communications, and planning updates
- Maintain governance calendars to ensure GPDR delivers its key obligations on time, collaborating with contributors to maintain its accuracy and sharing regularly for wider visibility
- Implement projects, mapping out workback schedules to achieve delivery success
- Draft communications and presentation materials for Executive meetings, ensuring clear and appropriate narrative for the audience
- Handle meeting governance of GPDR Management Committee, SIE Global Management Committee, and Executive partner sessions
- Support GPDR Sync Weeks, quarterly leadership offsites, townhalls and social events, contributing to high quality materials creation
- Support integration of the GPDR annual objectives in day-to-day business, ensuring all verticals are engaged
- Administrate GPDR leadership and divisional meetings to note decisions, drive action items and cascade information to teams directly
- Monitor OPEX and headcount tracking, ensuring both fit within Corporate Planning guidelines
- Cultivate day-to-day relationships with cross-functional counterparts across Financial Planning & Operations, Commercial Finance, HR and others where appropriate
- Implement a consistent approach to new starter onboarding
- Run the GPDR Information Hub on SharePoint consistently reviewing and updating it to ensure its relevance and accuracy
- Involvement in high impact programs that affect large cohorts of internal colleagues, ensuring timelines delivered
- Working self-sufficiently sometimes within ambiguous circumstances and in fast turnaround times
- Producing high quality presentation materials with a clear and concise narrative, suitable for wide and senior audiences
- Proactively evangelizing the value and importance of the work of our team and division, ensuring appropriate consensus
- Running internal SharePoint sites for investment submissions and for employee information
- Implementing divisional and leadership meetings/events/socials, motivating engagement and attendance
- Leading meetings, driving the agenda to start and end promptly, and ensure objectives are achieved
- Drafting executive communications and reviewing with HR and senior leadership
Our take
Since the release of the PS1 in 1994, PlayStation has been a consistent leader in the video gaming market. Its consoles are iconic in the gaming community - Playstation has produced both the top-selling and fastest-selling console of all time - and the company is still pushing boundaries. Its current flagship - the PS5 - promises to revolutionize gaming, featuring new technology that will create improvements across the board.
As well as its consoles, PlayStation has also developed online services, connecting its users and giving them access to diversified media. A PlayStation can be used for a huge range of activities - from Netflix to guided workouts - which has led to the expansion of the company's audience over time and across generations.
PlayStation faces competition in its field from the likes of Microsoft, with its Xbox range, and PC gaming, which has been becoming more popular in recent years. Regardless, PlayStation shows no signs of slowing down. The upcoming implementation of in-game ads in free games looks to significantly increase revenue, and the wider PlayStation gaming experience also appears to be evolving from plans to launch live service games in upcoming years.
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
8% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Private medical insurance
- Private dental insurance
- Flexible working policy (remote working, flexible hours)
- Free fruit every day in our offices
- On-site free gym (London & Liverpool)
- On-site subsidised cafés
- On-site bar (Thursdays & Fridays, London & Liverpool)
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Eye care assistance
- x2 volunteering days each year
- Group pension plan
- Discretionary bonus scheme
- Season ticket loans
- Life assurance
- Income protection
- 25 days holiday, plus Bank Holidays
- Discretionary days off over Christmas and summer
- Free giveaways of select first party products and services
- Discounts on PlayStation products
- Discounts on Sony products
- Access to other corporate discounts
Company HQ
East San Mateo, San Mateo, CA
Articles
Leadership
Jim Ryan
(CEO, not founder)Ryan joined Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe (SIEE) in 1994. Taking over as SIEE president in 2011, he later moved on to head of global sales and marketing at SIE in April 2016. Ryan has served as deputy president of SIE since January 2018, before being appointed CEO in February 2019.
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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at PlayStation
- We're proud to celebrate diversity at PlayStation
- Our Employee Resource groups, including Women@PlayStation, REPRESENT@PlayStation, Wellbeing@PlayStation, and our award-winning LGBTQ+ group, Pride@PlayStation, actively promote inclusion in the workplace and beyond
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