Sr. Director, Business Operations

Job Description

A little bit about our team:

Strategy & Operations at Warner Music Group is a cross-functional team working across the whole company – including Recorded Music and Music Publishing. The team is a partner to the senior leadership at WMG focusing on high-impact strategic projects, data analysis and execution.

The Business Operations team is responsible for leading cross functional initiatives in support of the WMG strategy which includes helping to develop and execute business plans, overseeing the implementation of new initiatives, tracking and coordinating the success of key strategic goals and initiatives and organizing process improvement efforts

Your role:

Reporting to the Head of Business Operations, this position brings key members together across different business teams to assess the situation, develop solutions and strategic roadmaps that accomplish business goals

Here you'll get to:
• Coordinate with Senior Executives to prioritize a list of initiatives
• Create and periodically send Executive reporting to ensure all stakeholders are updated on progress of critical items
• Initiate periodic problem resolution sessions with stakeholders and teams; ensure alignment with overall business and company strategy; report findings to the regional executive team(s)
• Prepare Business Case assessments that align to business priorities and develop best recommendations based on business need
• Lead the execution of maturity assessments against the process activities across multiple teams; highlight opportunities to optimize, improve or challenge the current process
• Identify opportunities to solve business problems with new and existing solutions; create ''to be process'' documentation/workflows in the end-to-end business lifecycle
• Coordinate with senior technology leaders to ensure all proposed business solutions align with technology strategy
• Coach junior project managers and/or business analysts
• Create best practices for process analysis and develop proposals to centralize the storage and maintenance of all process diagrams

About you:
• Minimum 8 years working experience as a Business Analyst
• Management Experience
• Able to work in a high pace and flexible environment
• Heavy experience communicating and coordinating with Executives
• Ability to create engaging presentations that properly capture the message
• Comfortable with raising issues or finding a better way to execute. Happy to challenge the status quo
• Consulting experience
• Data driven analytical skills, Business impact quantification and reporting skills

We'd love it if you also had:
• Music background

About us:

As the home to 10K Projects, 300 Elektra, Asylum, Atlantic, 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 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.

Salary Range
$115,000 -$125,000

Salary ranges are included for job postings where required by law. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as work experience and business needs. The pay range is subject to change at any time dependent on a variety of internal and external factors.

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Jobcode: Reference SBJ-gxm3m1-18-191-103-10-42 in your application.