Manager, Project Intake

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. 

WMG is home to a wide range of artists, musicians, and songwriters that fuel our success. That is why we are committed to creating a work environment that actively values, appreciates, and respects everyone. We encourage applications from people with a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences. 

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: Project Intake Manager

Reports To: SVP, Global Operations

Department: Finance 

Location:  Remote 

A little bit about our team:

Warner Music’s Global Business Services (GBS) is the home to the finance operations, legal and administrative functions that provide critical support and best-in-class services to our global Finance labels and affiliates. Each regional center embodies the collaborative and creative spirit that stems from the company’s deep history in nurturing entrepreneurial thinking and artist-focused innovation, enabling our employees to develop a wide range of skills through cross-function collaboration and development opportunities. 

Your role:

GBS Intake Manager is a key member of our Global Business Services team. Reporting to the VP of Operations, GBS, you will be responsible for leading the intake of new work into our global business services platform. The ideal candidate will have strong project management skills to handle complex projects from M&A integration to migration of work from local finance to the GBS team. The will be a critical liaison between our M&A deal team, business stakeholders, and the GBS delivery teams, ensuring clear communication, proper scope definition, and appropriate sizing of delivery teams tasked with migration or integration of new activities or business units.

Here you’ll get to:

• Work with M&A deal team and the broader finance organization on all integration and work migration to ensure clear prioritization, demand management, and effective hand-offs to delivery teams.

• Lead the migration and integration projects from initiation to handover to the GBS delivery teams.

• Establish project charters for each initiative, outlining scope, structure, key partners, GBS subject matter experts, and timelines. 

• Work closely with target companies or with internal colleagues along with GBS subject matter experts to fully understand the nature of the work to be migrated or integrated, clarify scope, and gather necessary documentation to plan the migration or integration.

• Assure that all processes to be migrated are documented, including updates to process taxonomy and procedures in conjunction with the training team or other project team members..

• Work with the appropriate GBS delivery teams or subject matter experts to ensure that new work is matched to the capacity and capabilities of the delivery team.

• Ensure compli