Director, Global Compensation - New York, United States - Warner Music Group

Warner Music Group

Verified Company

New York, United States

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Mark Lane

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Description

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 know that each talent makes our collective bolder and brighter.

We are guided by four core principles that underpin everything we do across all our diverse businesses:

Music is Everything:
Music is our passion, and we can never get enough. Tastes, trends, and tech will change, but great artists and songwriters will always be our driving force.

Global Growth,

Local Expertise:
Music is a global language. Through communication and collaboration, our success can come from anywhere and translate everywhere.

Innovation and Insight: Pushing the boundaries requires the best information and the boldest imagination. We use both to create the future.

Empowered by People:
Like the artists we serve and the music they make, our differences make us stronger. This is a place where every talent can belong and build a career.

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.

A little bit about our team:

The Compensation and Benefits team delivers comprehensive support to the global WMG business, including driving the strategic planning, design, development, implementation and communication of competitive total rewards programs including the annual incentive cycle and global compensation budget.

We build and maintain compensation structures to ensure our people are fairly and competitively paid.

Reporting to the VP Global Compensation, this role sits within the US Compensation and Benefits team in Human Resources.

Your role:

Here you'll get to:

Consult with VP Global Compensation on the development of compensation strategies, policies, and processes
Devise creative solutions and approaches to compensation that enable us to meet the demands of a competitive marketplace while ensuring fair pay
Bring an awareness of "skills of the future" and thoughtfully align our compensation programs with WMG's People Strategy, enabling continued evolution in key areas such as technology analytics and data visualization
Ensure that all our compensation programs support and enable our robust DEI strategy and objectives. Provide thought leadership in areas such as pay equity, ESG and transparency
Develop key crossfunctional partnerships across the organization, including working with global finance on headcount planning, budgeting and forecasting; and with legal to ensure compliance of our programs
Manage the annual bonus and merit process for all US labels, Global Businesses and Corporate. Provide guidance, support and direction to managers and other colleagues
Act as a strategic business advisor to senior business leaders and a partner to HR leaders, ensuring that our programs align with our business goals and support talent acquisition, retention, career development, mobility and our diversity initiatives
Provide consultative thought leadership to the human resources community and business leaders on pay decisions, pay guidelines, policy and guideline interpretation and job evaluation including the design of creative solutions to specific compensationrelated challenges
Provide senior management comprehensive reporting of competitive pay position versus marketplace; advise managers of compensation trends and anecdotal market intelligence
Partner with HR and management in the development and evaluation of job descriptions. Assigning FLSA classification, salary grades and job levels on new roles
Manage and deepen partnerships with key vendors and external partners that will enrich our thinking and programs with industry insights and ensure that our programs remain competitive
Conduct adhoc analyses to evaluate and recommend pay adjustments to maintain internal equity and external competitiveness.

About you:

Minimum 710 years of Compensation experience
Experience designing and building compensation programs, pay models and benchmarking approaches
Experience developing and maintaining global job architecture pay structures
You are a handson leader who has previously managed a team of individual contributors
A highly metricsfocused orientation that can effectively communicate technically complex information
Advanced Excel/Google Sheets skills
Demonstrated success in a dynamic, fastpaced, frequently changing, and leanly staffed environment
Efficiently manage current programs, challenge the status quo, and champion new initiatives
A consummate team player who builds highly effective professional relationships and can effectively work with and communicate across multiples levels of the organization
Strong work ethic holds self and others accountable for achieving required outcomes
High energy, sense of urgency, resultsoriented with strong operations skill set
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