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Neighbouring Rights Operations Manager

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, sex or sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, religion or belief, disability, and any other protected 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: Neighbouring Rights Operations Manager

A little bit about our team:

Be at the forefront of ensuring that Warner Music Group (WMG) sets the standards for excellence in metadata in the music industry. The Rights Management team sits within Warner Recorded Music Global Operations (WRMGO) group. As a team we oversee all aspects of rights data ingestion, metadata quality, entry and dissemination at WMG. Oversee and be part of a team that not only analyses and coordinates data accuracy, giving guidance and setting standards, but also registers and ensures accurate availability of WMG’s Recorded Music rights worldwide.

Your role:

This role will involve managing and overseeing a centralised team who are working to ensure all our recording assets comply with various collection societies’ data standards, so WMG can maximise the revenue we receive from public performance. As we continue to integrate with the exciting new global neighbouring rights portal feed (RDx) you will also be integral in implementing, improving and defining new processes to facilitate and grow WMG’s centralised rights management requirements. This will involve optimising any development changes needed to consume and interact with the metadata received or sent out in the feed, working confidently with large volumes of data and rolling out new processes with local WMG affiliates as they transition to RDx. You will also be an integral part of a larger Product Data Standards team working to develop, document and communicate data standards to labels and affiliates worldwide.

Here you’ll get to:

• Manage, mentor and develop a centralised Rights Management team based in the UK, supporting global WMG metadata quality and facilitation of accurate registration of our recorded music at global neighbouring rights societies

• Review, improve and develop current processes around management of track analysis, communication flows and metadata compliance as we transition to more affiliates and societies onboarding to RDx

• Implement new processes to facilitate co-ordination of claims conflict management, gathering local WMG and local society requirements in an ever-changing environment

• Assist the business in clearly defining metadata requirements, processes and documentation to facilitate accurate registration. Work to implement and educate labels across WMG on all standards and processes, to maintain accuracy in collaboration with our Product Data Management and Revenue Optimization teams

• Identify improvements or suggestions of development around WMG’s DDEX registration feed into the RDx portal. Be involved in testing and analysing metadata as necessary, working with the development team to ensure the DDEX feed flows correctly and contains all information required

• Work with our tech departments as needed to advise and facilitate on any developments, enhancements or work flow tool requirements needed to improve our neighbouring rights space

• Liaise as required alongside other key senior Business Affairs and Rights Management stakeholders with external rights holders and societies who have either onboarded to RDx or are in the process of transitioning over. May involve co-ordination, preparation and performing data analysis reviews of large data sets and issues

• Assist the team with error messages and claims conflicts resulting from RDx or via WMG affiliate communications

• Manage review and merit process for the Rights Managements team, provide feedback to direct reports

About you:

• You are educated to a minimum A-level standard (with good academic grades)

• You are passionate about being highly organised, with an excellent consistent level of accuracy and attention to detail

• You excel in prioritising tasks effectively, and work well under pressure and to strict deadlines

• You take initiative and responsibility over own workload while working within the goals of the Rights Management team, and as part of a larger Product Data Management team

• You are proactive in seeking out new projects and looking for new ways to optimise our neighboring rights income and data accuracy

• You have experience of managing data and strong analytical skills

• You have demonstrated excellent communication skills, both written and verbal

• You are computer proficient in Google Suite applications and spreadsheet applications such as Microsoft Excel and Google Sheet

We’d love it if you also had:

• Working knowledge or metadata experience in the neighbouring rights industry and/or recording music industry

• You have demonstrated a track record of consistent and high-quality delivery in a music metadata management environment

• Ability to manage metadata related projects

• Project management experience

• Have experience in managing teams

About us:

As the home to Asylum, Atlantic, East West, Elektra, 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.

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, religion or belief, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or gender reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, disability, pregnancy, childbirth or any other characteristic protected by law.

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