Senior Data Analyst in London

At Warner Music Group, we’re a global collective of music makers and music lovers, tech innovators and inspired entrepreneurs, game-changing creatives and passionate team members. Here, we turn dreams into stardom and audiences into fans. We are guided by three core values that underpin everything we do across all our diverse businesses:

• Curiosity: We do our best work when we’re immersing ourselves in culture and breaking through barriers. Curiosity is the driving force behind creativity and ingenuity. It fuels innovation, and innovation is the key to our future.
• Collaboration: Making music and bringing it to the world is all about the power of originality amplified by teamwork. A great idea, like a great song, travels globally. We ignite passions and build connections across our diverse community of artists, songwriters, partners, and fans.
• Commitment: We pursue excellence for our team and our talent. Everything in music starts with a leap into the unknown, and we’re committed to keeping the faith, acting with integrity, and delivering on our promises.

WMG is home to a wide range of artists, musicians, and songwriters that fuel our success. That is why we are committed to creating a work environment that actively values, appreciates, and respects everyone. We encourage applications from people with a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences.

Consider a career at WMG and get the best of both worlds – an innovative global music company that retains the creative spirit of a nimble independent.

A little bit about our team: The Data & Insight team work with the Frontline & Catalogue labels, Commercial & Finance teams on track & artist performance and strategy, partner & competitor performance analysis, market trends, risks & opportunities. Sometimes as part of a team, sometimes solo but always delivering timely, clear and actionable insight and recommendations.

Your role: Championing data-lead decision making, this position requires a blend of technical expertise, market knowledge, and the ability to translate complex data sets into clear, impactful narratives. You will be expected to explore and leverage AI/Generative AI tools to streamline workflow, enhance data visualization, and improve strategic storytelling.

Here you’ll get to:

• Day to Day: Anticipate stakeholder needs and provide data-driven solutions to support their strategic objectives. Visualize KPIs related to artist performance, track consumption, market share, and marketing / promotional effectiveness. Develop and deliver tailored presentations to senior management, adapting the complexity and detail to the audience, leveraging Generative AI tools where appropriate to refine narratives and enhance visual communication. Providing insights that inform long-term strategic planning / shape long-term artist development and marketing strategies.
• Dashboard Development & Maintenance: Use WMG internal systems such as Opus, Sodatone, Tableau & Snowflake to interpret sales, pre-order & streaming data. Interrogate external partner interfaces from Amazon, Apple, Spotify and YouTube, as well as external websites such as OCC, BPI, Midia & ChartMetric. Design, build, and maintain insightful and user-friendly dashboards that bring together these data sources to provide actionable insights. Ensure data accuracy and timely updates of all dashboards. Proactively find opportunities to improve existing dashboards and develop new analytical tools anticipating stakeholder needs; provide data-driven solutions to support strategic objectives, including the deployment of low-code/AI-assisted workflow automations.
• Market Analysis: Continuously monitor and analyse market trends, competitor performance and consumer behaviour. Identify shifts in consumption patterns, genre popularity, and emerging opportunities / risks. Provide regular reports and presentations on market dynamics.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Integrate data-driven insights on artist streaming & social performance, audience demographics, and potential reach into strategic recommendations.

About you:

• At least 5 years’ experience working in a record label, a platform or company affiliated to the music business.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Highly organized and detail-oriented with ability to manage multiple projects and prioritise effectively.
• Familiarity with foundational AI/Generative AI concepts (e.g., LLMs, prompt engineering), experience using these tools to optimize data preparation, summarization, and presentation and keen to expand in this area.
• Expert knowledge of Excel/Sheets, Powerpoint/Slides, SQL, Dashboarding platforms (Tableau/Looker) essential.

We’d love it if you also had:

• Proficiency in Python for data analysis and automation.

Application Note: We are looking for a forward thinking Analyst who actively embraces modern workflows. To help your application stand out, we encourage you to highlight specific examples of how you have used Generative AI (e.g., LLMs, prompt engineering) to optimize and streamline data preparation. Please include examples in your CV or cover letter.

As the home to 10K Projects, Asylum, Atlantic Music Group, East West, FFRR, Fueled by Ramen, Nonesuch, Parlophone, Rhino, Roadrunner, Sire, Warner Records, Warner Classics, and several other of the world’s premier recording labels, Warner Music Group champions emerging artists and global superstars alike. And our renowned publishing company, Warner Chappell Music, represents genre-spanning songwriters and producers through a catalog of more than one million copyrights worldwide. Warner Music Group is also home to ADA, which supports the independent community, as well as artist services division WMX. In addition, WMG counts film and television storytelling powerhouse Warner Music Entertainment among its many brands.

Together, we are Warner Music Group: Independent Minds. Major Sound.

This position requires a minimum of 4 days per week in the office. We value in-office collaboration, which is essential for talent development and strong working relationships.

WMG is committed to inclusion and diversity in all aspects of our business. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and will evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, religion or belief, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or gender reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, disability, pregnancy, childbirth or any other characteristic protected by law.