Sr. Director People Team

Job Description

Senior Director, People - Latin America:

A little bit about our team:

The People team sits at the heart of Warner Music Group and is focused on attracting, retaining and developing exceptional people, enabling them to be the best they can be to drive Warner's continued success in the marketplace. The team designs, implements and facilitates People programs around Talent Acquisition, Talent Management, Learning & Development, Employee Engagement, Compensation and Benefits and People Experience and Solutions. Our team also partners with the business to support key organisational initiatives. We are passionate about what we do, always striving for better, willing to go the extra mile and happy to roll up our sleeves to support our colleagues.

Your role:

We are looking for a creative, culturally curious and commercially oriented leader to partner with our business and transform the employee experience across our Latin America business. You'll be a driver of change, growth-minded and relentless in your focus to deliver on our employee value proposition and to hire, develop and retain the very best talent. You'll exercise extraordinary stakeholder management skills, dual reporting through to our Latin America business leadership team and our global People team, and your cultural curiosity and influence will yield great ideas and pragmatic ways to deliver our people agenda.

Here you'll get to:
• ​​Partner with, inspire, mentor and lead local people team resources, providing impactful leadership and coaching that delivers a consistently high service
• Exercise a data-driven approach, using insight to identify trends and inform decisions
• Understand the business' models, goals, vision and culture and to contribute to their development and people and culture priorities
• Partner with global people team members to manage matrixed complexities relating to global teams with Latin America based resources, keeping stakeholders appraised and engaged
• Develop strategic workforce plans and propose models and approaches to support objectives and advance the business and its functions
• Collaborate with Global People team centers of excellence to successfully deliver programs, initiatives and cycles
• Coach senior leaders to drive change management, talent, DEI, mobility and communication strategies for their teams
• Own the delivery of the talent and organizational development agenda for WM Latin America
• Partner closely with the CFO to ensure people plans align with financial plans
• Navigate complex situations, environments and team dynamics
• Advise and influence on workforce planning, organisational design and development, talent management and talent retention including succession planning, career management, performance planning, coaching, recruiting and onboarding strategies
• Identify reward strategies that recognise high performance, innovation and creativity
• Facilitate individual, team and leadership interventions, enhancing local, peer-to-peer and networked team dynamics
• Negotiate Senior Executive level engagements/service agreement amendments and exit/restructuring arrangements
• Manage people operations locally spanning policy, compliance, Workday maintenance and reporting, onboarding and offboarding, talent acquisition, employee relations, payroll, benefits management etc
• Roll out all key people processes, including introducing appropriate policies and procedures and management of a full employee lifecycle from onboarding to offboarding across the region.
• Manage day-to-day People responsibilities such as data entry and management, relocation, terminations, immigration, employee benchmarking, employee relations, annual merit and bonus process, etc.

About you:
• You'll be a commercially astute People leader with a strong business partnering background
• You're resilient and able to take on complex situations with enthusiasm and a sense of calm
• You're an ambitious leader, change agent and internal business consultant
• You exhibit a high level of emotional intelligence and awareness
• Project management and delivery capabilities – you're highly organised.
• Insight driven HR gurus – you're highly analytical and can draw insight from data and promote technology enabled people solutions.
• Experience in driving cultural change and delivering DEI and ESG outcomes.
• You are culturally curious! An inquisitive networker with a pulse on people trends.
• You have a high tolerance of ambiguity and are flexible to business needs.
• You're an impactful storyteller who brings vision to life - communication is your thing.
• Critical thinking, problem-solving and cutting through complexity is simple to you.
• You deliver strategic and operational people outcomes successfully and with a smile.
• You have exceptional conflict management, negotiation and influencing skills.
• Your background has the full gamut of People skills: Employee Relations, Employment Law, Recruiting, Talent & Development, Org. Development, People Tech, DEI, Compensation and Benefits etc
• You thrive on delivering business goals and build relationships in person and virtually.
• Fully bilingual in English and Spanish. Portuguese would be of added value.

We'd love it if you also had:
• Experience working within the music, tech or media industry, although not essential
• Experience of cloud-based HR systems (Workday).

Links to relevant documents:

2024 Benefits At A Glance final.pdf

EVerify Participation Poster.pdf

Right To Work .pdf

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-g37npx-3-145-81-66-42 in your application.