Country Director

Company Description

Founded in 2005, Believe is the worldwide leader in digital audio and video distribution for independent artists and labels. It is by combining technological and artistic skills in the service of digital distribution that the Group has based its expertise and has quickly positioned itself as a new player in the music industry landscape. 

With more than 1,500 people in 50 countries, the group distributes more than a third of the world's digital music in volume and has achieved an average annual growth of 30% over the last ten years. 

Believe's mission can be summed up as: "Best serve and develop all artists and labels with care, transparency, fairness, expertise and innovation, in all local markets around the world". 

Job Description

As a General Manager, your mission is to oversee local strategies set by the Regional Managing Director, liaising with company headquarters. You will be reporting to the Regional Managing Director (from now on MD) and responsible for the efficiency of the business in a constantly mutating environment.  

You will support the management of a team currently composed of people in the following functions: Digital Distribution, Artist Services Distribution, Marketing and Communications, people passionate with music in charge of delivering the best marketing services with passion, innovation, care, and transparency.  

Your duties will include but not limited to the following 

All your actions are guided by our vision of growth, respect, fairness, transparency and expertise.  

Develop the Believe Mexico activity in order to position Believe as a key leader in the Mexican music industry. 

• Develop senior leadership within the current organization and participate in its completion if necessary  

• Recommend the proper organization to best sign, sell and serve 

• Set and drive OKR management with business heads 

Build and execute the A&R and service strategy for artist and label services and distribution 

• Lead the development of Believe Mexico within Believe Group organization, from a business, service and financial standpoint 

• Build A&R strategy (music genre, type of deal, services, pricing, economics...) 

• Build P&L aligned with sales strategy and manage to budget 

• Further build the artist service brand and identity 

• Identify and develop more genres to be developed if any 

• Recommend to Believe’s central M&A team M&A opportunity to accelerate our growth 

Execute the “sell and serve” strategy for Artist development and our distribution strategy. As such, you will have primary responsibility the Mexican global P&L of the business. Believe executes on a centralized model adapted to local specificities. 

• Align execution with sales and marketing strategy with your local heads of business 

• Inspire Believe’s marketing teams on the development and execution of creative, innovative and impactful campaigns 

• Organize team work locally and with central to optimize the A&R strategy and our “sell and serve” efficiency 

• Organize internal, external communication & branding to support and develop business 

Create and deploy performance measurement for the business. 

• Set and drive objectives with the local teams and central functions  

• Develop, measure KPIs and report KPIs to drive the business forward 

• Build budget and forecast and achieve them 

Qualifications

• Honesty, humility, and ethics will be key to be part of the team 

• Your global vision gives you an ability to view problems from different standpoints  

• You can understand and manage both the Company economic targets and Customer Satisfaction  

• You have a minimum of 15 years of experience in relevant positions  

• With outstanding organisational and leadership abilities (not coercive) you have demonstrated competency in strategy implementation 

• Aptitude in decision-making and problem-solving, you are target-driven and have an achievement-oriented management style 

• You are an experienced professional in financial planning & strategy implementation with negotiation and conflict management skills 

• Your communication style is very simple, direct, schematic, and straightforward  

• English is mandatory to be successful in the job