Senior Digital Licensing Manager

The Senior Digital Licensing Manager is responsible for licensing WCM rights to new and existing digital partners and working with other WCM teams to operationalize these license agreements. The role will report to and support EVP, Global Digital in securing the best possible commercial terms for WCM songwriters and maintaining WCM's relationship with its Digital partners. Here you'll get to:

• Negotiate licence agreements with new and existing digital services in developed and emerging markets.
• Secure approval of matching performing rights from societies.
• Work closely with WCM Finance to track revenue for digital accounts.
• Collaborate with WCM Finance and support deal modelling and analysis of the financial impact of licensing terms to ensure that WCM's deals will provide meaningful revenue to its songwriters.
• Act as point of contact for external and internal enquiries regarding digital issues.
• Partner with Director, Digital Rights Management, and Digital Analyst to track trends across licensed platforms.
• Assume responsibility for negotiating with a share of major DSPs and provide support in other major deal negotiations.
  
  Solid experience and understanding of music publishing and rights flow, particularly in the digital landscape.
• A minimum of 5 year's experience in the music industry
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets with experience in analysis and deal modelling.
• Effective and confident communication skills.
• Experience working across multiple time zones.
• Strong organisational skills.
We'd love it if you also had:
• Experience in commercial negotiation
• A degree in music business/management or other relevant/equivalent qualification
  
  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. Warner Chappell Music (WCM) is the music publishing division of Warner Music Group. We are interested in those who can join and contribute to our company's values: Curiosity, Collaboration, and Commitment. We value input, ideas, and feedback from everyone at every level and the voices and contributions of every team member at WCM matter. At WCM we put the songwriter first, offering high-touch service to move the cultural dial across the globe. We want team members who have a service-oriented mindset and care about the collective work. We are searching for those who are comfortable thinking globally while leveraging local expertise., Warner Chappell's Digital team is responsible for growing revenues through all forms of digital exploitation and finding new and innovative ways in which to grow our business in a way that underlines the value of our incredible catalogue of work. The team is responsible for identifying and negotiating with DSPs and drafting contracts, as well as working internally with our Operations and Finance teams to ensure that the repertoire in all territories is properly licensed, all reporting is delivered on time, and relevant payments have been received. In addition to this, the Digital team works across multiple territories, either directly or in a support role, advising our international affiliates., As the home to Asylum, Atlantic, East West, Elektra, FFRR, Fuelled 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. 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 the 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.