Vice President, Business Intelligence

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: 

• 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.

We remain committed to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. We know it fosters a culture where you can truly belong, contribute, and grow. We encourage applications from people of any age, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, religion, ethnicity, disability, veteran status, and any other characteristic or identity.

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, Business Intelligence

 

A little bit about our team:

The Warner Chappell Global Strategic Integration and Operations (SI&O) team is a small but mighty team focused on delivering and implementing business objectives. Working closely with our global leaders, we are responsible for driving and embedding our global business strategy. Data is a critical part of everything we do and this role will help unlock insights for leaders around the world.

Your role:

We are seeking an experienced and strategic Vice President of Business Intelligence (BI) to lead our Music Publishing BI team and drive data-driven decision-making across the company. As VP of Business Intelligence, you will oversee day-to-day management of the BI team, ensuring high-quality data reporting, and providing actionable insights for our leadership team through clear storytelling. This role is essential to fostering a culture of data literacy, optimizing data infrastructure, and developing tools to support self-serve analytics.

Here you’ll get to:

Team Leadership and Development

• Oversee the daily operations of the BI team, including resource management, prioritization of work and projects, and skill development.  

• Foster a collaborative environment that encourages knowledge sharing and continuous professional development.  

Cross-functional Coordination 

• Partner with cross-functional teams such as Corporate BI, Technology, Income Tracking, Administration, and other relevant departments to align on data initiatives and ensure seamless data integration.  

• Manage clear communication and transparency across all relevant groups to ensure alignment of expectations. 

Business Partnership and Reporting and Insights 

• Play a pivotal role in executing WCM's global business intelligence strategy, contributing innovative ideas and input to influence the company's direction, through clear data and storytelling.

• Deliver bespoke analysis, reports, dashboards and visualizations in line with the needs of each department, supporting needs at all levels of the organization. 

• Ensure quality assurance across all BI reports, dashboards, and data sources to maintain accuracy and reliability.  

• Ensure that data is presented in a clear and actionable manner.  

Strategic Monitoring and Metrics

• Oversee and monitor departmental OKRs for global leads and MDs, ensuring that goals are measurable and align with broader company objectives.  

• Regularly discuss progress with departmental leads, scope future analytical needs, and identify reporting gaps.  

Publishing Data Infrastructure and Analytical Tools

• Identify and resolve gaps in analytical and reporting capabilities, providing both interim and long-term solutions.  

• Lead, create, and review data queries and workflows to deliver that can be shared across the team and directly with departments.

• Lead the development of self-serve analytical tools that enable teams to access necessary data without delays, reducing bottlenecks and future-proofing business processes.  

Publishing Data Literacy and Continuous Improvement

• Contribute ideas for how to innovate, improve and create more efficient ways of delivering data analysis.

• Promote data literacy and an understanding of BI across the organization, empowering teams to leverage data in their decision-making processes.  

• Drive continuous improvement processes to enhance data cleansing and verification, ensuring all data used is reliable and accurate.

• Host regular sessions to debrief the business on dashboards now accessible to them. 

 

About you:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business/Finance, Data Science, Statistics, or a related field; graduate degree is a plus.

• A minimum of 10 years of experience in Business Intelligence, Data Analytics, or a related field, with at least 5 years in a leadership role.

• A previous understanding of music publishing data and complexities. 

• Proven experience in managing and scaling BI teams, with strong team development skills.

• Experience in SQL and Python.

• Extensive experience with BI and data visualization tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI, Alteryx).

• Strong understanding of data infrastructure, database management, and data modeling principles.

• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to convey complex data insights to non-technical stakeholders, especially to sr. executives. 

• Proven track record in cross-functional collaboration, particularly with technology and corporate strategy teams.

• Solid experience in a media, entertainment, or music-related industry is a plus.

We’d love it if you also had:

• Warner Chappell Music’s values center on Curiosity, Collaboration, and Commitment and alignment with these values is essential. 

• Analytical mindset with the ability to translate data into actionable insights.

• Strong project management skills, with experience managing multiple projects simultaneously.

• Ability to think strategically and proactively identify data-related opportunities for improvement.

• Commitment to continuous learning and staying updated with the latest BI technologies and industry trends.

• Motivated by problem solving and proactively finds and creates solutions.

About us:

At Warner Chappell Music (WCM), we shape the culture of songwriting and champion songs that resonate for generations by creating transformational opportunities for songwriters everywhere. Our people and culture are at the epicenter of our company, and we are looking for team members who share our service-oriented mindset and have a passion for looking after our songwriters.

As the global music publishing arm of Warner Music Group (WMG), we’re a collective band of music lovers, innovative connectors, and relentless supporters of our songwriters and catalog of iconic works. We lead with curiosity, collaborate across departments, borders, languages, and genres, and we’re committed to delivering on the promises we make to each other and to our songwriters.  

As the home to 10K Projects, Asylum, Atlantic Music Group, 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.

Together, we are Warner Music Group: Independent Minds. Major Sound.

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Don’t be discouraged if you don’t hear from us right away. We’re taking our time to review all resumes, and to find the best people for WMG.

 

Thanks for your interest in working for WMG.  We love it here, and think you will, too.

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Effective October 1st,  this position will require being in the office 4 days a week.  We believe that an in-office presence is critical for talent development, collaboration and building strong relationships.

Salary Range

$175,000-$200,000/year

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.

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, religious creed, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, marital status, medical condition as defined by state law (genetic characteristics or cancer), physical or mental disability, military service or veteran status, pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, genetic information or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local law.

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