VP, Strategy and Operations, EMEA

VP, Strategy and Operations, EMEA

Apply remote type Hybrid locations GBR – 27 Wrights Lane – London time type Full time posted on Posted 2 Days Ago job requisition id R-025059 VP, Strategy and Operations, EMEA

Job Description:

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:

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.

Job Title: VP, Strategy and Operations, EMEA

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.

The VP, Strategy and Operations role partners closely with the President, Warner Music EMEA, who sits within the newly formed WMG Executive Leadership Team (ELT), alongside regional leads for APAC, Latin America and the US Label Groups, global leads for our publishing business (Warner Chappell), WMX, ADA and other central teams (eg Technology, Finance, People, StratOps etc). The ELT works closely with WMG’s CEO and to develop, define and deliver the long-term vision and growth plan for Warner Music Group and this role is a key partner to enable this across EMEA.

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.

At times, you’ll drive efforts within the regional and matrixed teams to deep dive on key EMEA priorities, whether that’s transforming a territory’s culture and performance, inorganically growing our market share through M&A or something else.

In partnership with the President, Warner Music EMEA, territory and functional leadership, you will coordinate to drive the realisation of our employee and artist value propositions across EMEA markets. You’ll lead efforts to modernise our practices, with a heavy focus on creative and commercial functions, and you’ll use your sharp focus to deliver results from programmes and drive benefits that enhance our offering to artists, employees and shareholders.

Here you’ll get to:

1. Serve as a primary point of contact for internal stakeholders, and managing communications on behalf of the President, while coordinating and leading strategic initiatives across different departments or teams to ensure alignment with organizational goals.
2. Inform the long-term vision and growth plan for Warner Music EMEA territories in line with WMG strategic priorities.
3. Oversee special projects or initiatives, ensuring they are completed on time and within budget.
4. 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.
5. Oversee special projects, action plans or initiatives, owning the delivery of these, to drive efficiency, value and new opportunities across our creative and commercial teams.
6. Lead change initiatives by communicating the need for change, securing buy-in from stakeholders, and implementing strategies to minimize resistance and ensure successful adoption.
7. Identify areas for improvement in business processes, systems, and operations, and implement changes to enhance efficiency, effectiveness, and agility.
8. Build and maintain strong, supportive working relationships with local, regional and global leaders and teams to:

1. Identify and respond to critical business needs and support requirements for EMEA affiliates.
2. Ensure central strategies and initiatives cascade quickly and effectively.
3. Enable successful local initiatives to be upstreamed / globalized.
4. Provide support for regional and territory leaders.
5. Review and propose growth and optimisation opportunities, working with local, regional and global leaders on key M&A, strategic partnerships and productivity initiatives.
6. Build concise and impactful strategic presentations and other artefacts, to support business decision-making, change management and communication.
7. Establish effective ways of working through appropriate communication mechanisms and channels to disseminate timely and relevant information, building a regular cadence of connection amongst stakeholders and the central international leadership team.
8. 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.
9. Strengthen collective culture while supporting local social contexts, drawing on the WMG frameworks and with particular focus on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) and the Environmental, Social and Governance agenda (ESG).
10. Use data and insight to inform decision-making and prioritisation of focus areas that drive growth, efficiency and shareholder value.
11. Regularly measure progress of initiatives and evaluate return on investment to pivot and evolve strategies and activities to ensure the central international RM team deliver value to territories.
12. Review, design and execute improvements to our organisational structure, finding knowledge and skills gaps and helping to address them.

About you:

1. You possess a strong track record in leading a large, complex international organisation, ideally in a related industry, such as technology, digital, media, etc.
2. You may also have management consulting experience in your background.
3. You’re a strategic leader with an ability to inspire and influence others to adopt and drive forward the international business strategy.
4. You’re also comfortable rolling up your sleeves to lead operations and projects.
5. You have experience developing and integrating progressive, scaled business strategies.
6. You are successful at forging strong and long-lasting relationships inside and outside the company by acting with humility and empowering staff.
7. You are passionate about music.
8. You have a strong executive presence, initiative and self-management skills.
9. You are outcome focused and can identify opportunities for growth and productivity gains.
10. You have a disruptive and entrepreneurial mindset and embrace change.

About us:

As the home to Asylum, Atlantic, East West, Elektra, 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 catalogue 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.

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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.

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