Sr Vice President, Integrated Planning Position Available In Gwinnett, Georgia

Sr Vice President, Integrated Planning

Job Category:

Administration

Requisition Number:

VICEP005905

ing Details
ed: April 28, 2025
Full-Time
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Peachtree Corners, GA 30092, USA
Job Details
Description
Herschend is the world’s largest family-owned themed attractions company, with 12,000+ passionate hosts collectively entertaining 15 million families each year. The heart of Herschend’s success has long been the world-renowned hospitality that’s rooted in our DNA. We call it Heartspitality®. It’s a unique culture that blends our ethos of Leading with Love and our purpose of Bringing Families Closer Together by Creating Memories Worth Repeating® to create real impact and joy that spreads through our hosts to our guests and out into our communities. Herschend’s portfolio of more than two dozen beloved family entertainment brands across North America includes iconic award-winning destinations such as Dollywood® Parks & Resorts, Silver Dollar City® Company, Adventure Aquarium®, Callaway Resort & Gardens®, Kentucky Kingdom Theme & Water Park®, Newport Aquarium®, The Vancouver Aquarium® and Wild Adventures®. In addition to its premier themed attractions, Herschend is proud to steward the World-Famous Harlem Globetrotters® legacy and provide immersive content and experiences through our Herschend Entertainment Studios® and Pink Adventure Tours® brands. As an equal-opportunity employer, we strive to provide environments where every host, guest, and partner feel welcome, valued, and loved. We firmly believe that words and actions matter, which is why all individuals are to be treated equally and with respect. The Sr VP, Integrated Planning will oversee planning for strategic, cross-functional business initiatives across all parts of the company (including operations, commercial, marketing, technology, HR and finance, and other support-related functions). Overall responsibilities focus on ensuring consistent and integrated planning and that execution is in alignment with the company’s short- and long-term strategy.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

Coordinate key cross-functional projects across the organization. Lead analytical effort that provides support to strategic projects and operational leaders across the business, with a focus on guest operations, host experience, and revenue. Contribute to the company’s strategic direction and ongoing performance improvement work with the ELT. Facilitate annual planning processes, including the development and alignment of goals and agendas, essential information coordination, and functional alignment as needed. Lead communications to cascade priorities throughout the organization. Lead cross-functional strategy to maintain critical knowledge and strategic information sharing across the ELT through all available internal communication tools and resources. Prioritize, organize, and condense information disseminated to the ELT. Ensure members of the ELT are well versed in information that is critical to the success of the organization. Drive cross-functional decision-making processes. Lead business communications focused on sharing information on key business priorities, progress, issues/opportunities to key stakeholders include Herschend BOD, leadership forums (VPs, Directors), etc. Support the ELT in maximizing the leadership team’s effectiveness by ensuring they are effectively using people’s time and focused on priority topics supporting short- and long-term company strategies. Represents Herschend in cross-brand initiatives, as identified by Herschend leadership.

QUALIFICATIONS

Bachelor’s degree required. An advanced degree in business administration or a similar field strongly preferred. Requires 10-15 years of experience in a variety of roles with increasing responsibility. Breadth of experience ideally includes analytics, communications, marketing, and strategy development.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES

Demonstrated career progress of growing responsibilities, roles and impact. Excellent analytical, problem solving and strategy development skills. Excellent organization, operations, and management skills with impeccable reliability and strong time management and project management effectiveness. Excellent leadership skills and credibility with a strong track record of building, retaining, and developing high performing teams. Strong communication, relationship building and interpersonal skills, enabling effective relationships, collaborations, and interactions with senior executives, peers and teams across multiple functions/departments. High degree of self-motivation, tenacity and dedication, with aspirations and potential for senior general management positions. Strong curiosity and interest in learning the business and its performance drivers with the ability to quickly come up the learning curve. Strategic mindset, balancing short-term more tactical needs and opportunities with long-term, strategic challenges and imperatives. Ability to travel consistently to properties and industry events (up to 25%). Equal Opportunity Employer
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