Director, Global Market Strategy

Job Description

Job Description:

A little bit about our team:

ADA Worldwide strives to provide independent artists and label partners with access to the resources, relationships and experience required to share their creative vision with a global audience.

As the independent distribution arm of Warner Music Group, the ADA International team works closely with artists and label partners from around the world to help realize our common goals for promoting music on a global basis while optimizing sales opportunities. The Global Strategy team sits at the center of ADA, collaborating with the US and international markets, label management & services, sales, operations, finance, business affairs/legal and the whole of Warner Music Group. We bring in new and exciting music to ADA from across the globe.

Your role:

This is a unique opportunity to learn the global music business and work across different countries, cultures and languages with exciting artists and label partners. This position will work hand in hand with ADA's Global Head of Artist, Label and Market Strategy to drive ADA's global business and vision forward. This role will have the ability to make a meaningful impact on ADA's business worldwide while also developing strong relationships with our partners around the world including across our 50+ WMG affiliates and licensees. ­­

Here you'll get to:
• Identify, plan and execute new strategic initiatives that help drive long-term local and global business growth.
• Identify and maximize growth opportunities by collaborating with markets to build brand expansion strategy and innovating new ways to grow overall company's business.
• Liaise with different business stakeholders to gather and provide feedback on strategic business objectives and accelerate decision-making processes.
• Maintain strong relationships with key individuals in affiliate markets, responsible for managing urgent issues and utilizing creative problem solving as needed.
• Accelerate company initiatives by developing, iterating and implementing processes.
• Work with analytics resources and global data insights teams to analyze market performance data and set pragmatic KPIs.
• Perform industry and competitive due diligence including market trends and competitive analysis.
• Build and communicate succinct presentations for senior management and other key business stakeholders.
• Recommend best practices for improving current processes to facilitate better decision making, team communication, and efficiency.

About you:
• Minimum 4 years of relevant experience within business development/strategy, finance, operations.
• You have an entrepreneurial spirit and are motivated by innovation and excellence.
• You have excellent communication skills and are highly organized with a strong ability for critical-thinking and multi-tasking.
• You have the ability to take ownership of projects and independently drive them forward from start to finish.
• You have strong data proficiency, with an ability translate insights into actionable recommendations.
• You have a high level of intellectual curiosity, especially around music, technology, and entertainment.
• You will be working across many different territories; it will be important for you to be flexible, dynamic and diplomatic so you can effectively adapt to business requirement.

We'd love it if you also had:
• College Degree.
• International business experience.
• Knowledge of more languages.

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Jobcode: Reference SBJ-d80549-18-188-252-23-42 in your application.