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Business Planning & Operations Manager (Global Partner Development & Relations)

San Mateo, CA (hybrid) - will require coming into our offices 2 times per week

The Global Business Strategy & Planning (GBSP) team plays a pivotal role within Sony Interactive Entertainment's (SIE) Global Partner Development & Relations (GPDR) division, driving success by aligning GPDR's business goals with SIE’s broader strategic vision. Our mission goes beyond simply meeting targets — we shape the future by ensuring GPDR achieves its financial, strategic, and people commitments.

With a focus on three key areas — crafting GPDR's strategy and business plans, analyzing performance, and managing operations — the GBSP team is at the heart of the action, steering the organization toward sustained success. 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.

In this role you will:

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

What you’ll do:

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

You’ll be comfortable with:

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

What we’re looking for:

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

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At SIE, we consider several factors when setting each role’s base pay range, including the competitive benchmarking data for the market and geographic location.

Please note that the base pay range may vary in line with our hybrid working policy and individual base pay will be determined based on job-related factors which may include knowledge, skills, experience, and location.

In addition, this role is eligible for SIE’s top-tier benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, matching 401(k), paid time off, wellness program and coveted employee discounts for Sony products. This role also may be eligible for a bonus package. Click here to learn more.

The estimated base pay range for this role is listed below.

$106,400—$159,600 USD

Equal Opportunity Statement:

Sony is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All persons will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender (including gender identity, gender expression and gender reassignment), race (including colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin), religion or belief, marital or civil partnership status, disability, age, sexual orientation, pregnancy, maternity or parental status, trade union membership or membership in any other legally protected category.

We strive to create an inclusive environment, empower employees and embrace diversity. We encourage everyone to respond.

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