The Walt Disney Company

VP, Transformation Management Office (TMO)

The Walt Disney Company$259K — $348K *
Business Services
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 7-10 years in transformation leadership roles, especially in large-scale environments
  • Experience in managing or creating a Transformation Management Office (TMO) or similar function
  • Strong background in driving cross-functional transformations involving people, processes, and technology
  • Proven capability in engaging senior executives across departments
  • Experience with agile methodologies and portfolio management techniques

Responsibilities

  • Design and operate the Transformation Management Office as a central hub for transformation efforts
  • Align cross-enterprise initiatives for prioritization and sequencing
  • Facilitate decision rights and escalate issues to maintain project momentum
  • Integrate agile transformation practices into traditional governance
  • Develop actionable work plans with ownership and milestones for strategic priorities
  • Identify early risks and push for mitigation strategies
  • Track and report on business impact, ROI, and benefits realization

Benefits

  • Health, dental, and vision insurance packages
  • Retirement savings plans with company matching
  • Generous paid time off and holiday policies
  • Professional development opportunities and tuition assistance programs
  • Flexible working arrangements with opportunities for remote work
Full Job Description
Job Posting Title:
VP, Transformation Management Office (TMO)

Req ID:


Job Description:

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.

Job Posting Segment:
Enterprise Talent Connection

Job Posting Primary Business:
Enterprise Talent Connection

Primary Job Posting Category:
Human Resources Project Management

Employment Type:
Full time

Primary City, State, Region, Postal Code:
Burbank, CA, USA

Alternate City, State, Region, Postal Code:

Date Posted:
2026-07-02

About The Walt Disney Company

The Walt Disney Company started as a cartoon studio and evolves into sports coverage and television shows. Using the company's portfolio of brands to differentiate our content, services, and consumer products, Walt Disney seeks to develop creative, innovative, and profitable entertainment experiences and related products.

The Walt Disney Company Careers

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Learn more about The Walt Disney Company
Size
190,000 employees
Market Cap
$155.1 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$4.9 billion
Founded
1923
5 Year Trend
+3.9%
Revenue
$60.7 billion
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