VP, Strategy and Operations, EMEA

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.

A little bit about our team: WMG has recently reorganised its Recorded Music structure, allowing us to work as one organisation to be more nimble, strategic and aligned to our business decisions. We’ve evolved our operating model to a flatter, regional structure that elevates our creative regional leadership, supported by global services, to deliver maximum impact for artists on the world stage.

Your role: As an outstanding leader in this key position, you will make Warner Music EMEA an engine of creative achievement, strategic transformation, operational excellence and strong financial performance. You will coordinate across matrixed functions and territories to ensure alignment with the EMEA wide agenda. You’ll ensure services are delivered based on territory maturity, capability and tiering, and provide strategic and operational support on the EMEA wide business plan and its execution.

Here you’ll get to:

• Serve as a primary point of contact for internal stakeholders, managing communications on behalf of the President, while coordinating and leading strategic initiatives across different departments or teams to ensure alignment with organizational goals.
• Inform the long-term vision and growth plan for Warner Music EMEA territories in line with WMG strategic priorities.
• Oversee special projects or initiatives, ensuring they are completed on time and within budget.
• Shape and build the Warner Music EMEA roadmap for successful execution, to include agreed milestones and targets for the division; monitor progress, create regular updates for senior leadership and enable decision-making through clear governance protocols.
• Lead change initiatives by communicating the need for change, securing buy-in from stakeholders, and implementing strategies to minimize resistance and ensure successful adoption.
• Identify areas for improvement in business processes, systems, and operations, and implement changes to enhance efficiency, effectiveness, and agility.
• Build and maintain strong, supportive working relationships with local, regional and global leaders and teams.
• Review and propose growth and optimisation opportunities, working with local, regional and global leaders on key M&A, strategic partnerships and productivity initiatives.
• Build concise and impactful strategic presentations and other artefacts, to support business decision-making, change management and communication.
• Support, sponsor and drive the continued roll out of technology and data tools, systems and platforms to underpin excellence and improve efficiency across international markets.

About you: You possess a strong track record in leading a large, complex international organisation, ideally in a related industry, such as technology, digital, media, etc. You’re a strategic leader with an ability to inspire and influence others to adopt and drive forward the international business strategy. You have experience developing and integrating progressive, scaled business strategies. You are successful at forging strong and long-lasting relationships inside and outside the company by acting with humility and empowering staff. You are passionate about music.

About us: As the home to several of the world’s premier recording labels, Warner Music Group champions emerging artists and global superstars alike. Together, we are Warner Music Group: Independent Minds. Major Sound.

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 any characteristic protected by law.