Manager, Data Insights

Manager Data Insights

Location: Toronto Ontario

At Warner Music Group were 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 were 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 were 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 for 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: Manager Data Insights

Reports To: General Manager

Department: Data/Insights

Location: Toronto Ontario. Canada

Your role:

The role will translate commercial business activity into actionable data insights support budget and forecast planning and drive alignment with key business OKRs through rigorous performance tracking and data analytics.

Here youll get to:

• Analyze streaming sales and audience engagement data across platforms (Spotify Apple Music YouTube TikTok etc.)
• Help manage and refine forecasting models to provide accurate timely performance tracking and revenue projections
• Provide actionable insights to support budget forecasting artist development release strategy and marketing campaigns
• Build dashboards and reports that visualize key metrics trends and performance benchmarks
• Identify emerging markets genres or consumption patterns to inform growth opportunities
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (e.g. Marketing A&R Digital Strategy) to support data-driven decision making
• Present findings to stakeholders in a clear compelling waytranslating data into strategic recommendations
• Collaborate cross-functionally to support key initiativessuch as product launches and pricing strategies through strategic planning and performance tracking.
• Help manage OKR reporting ensuring business stakeholders have visibility into progress against business goals.

About you:

• 35 years experience in data analytics preferably in music entertainment or digital media
• Strong prioritization and organizational skills and ability to work autonomously
• Proven success in turning data into actionable business strategies.
• Experience in a fast-paced high-growth cross-functional environment.
• Strong skills in SQL Excel and BI tools (e.g. Tableau)
• Understanding of the modern music landscape including DSPs social media and fan behavior
• Communication and storytelling skillsable to bridge the gap between data and creative teams
• Detail-oriented with a strong sense of curiosity and problem-solving instincts
• Post secondary education in financial and data analysis with focus on commercial insights and planning
• Evening and weekend work may be required

Wed love it if you also had:

• Experience working with music metadata and charting data (e.g. Luminate Chartmetric etc.)
• Knowledge of marketing attribution models or forecasting
• Familiarity with Python or R a plus

About us:

As the home to 10K Projects Asylum Atlantic Music Group East West FFRR Fueled by Ramen Nonesuch Parlophone Rhino Roadrunner Sire Warner Records Warner Classics and several other of the worlds 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 catalog 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 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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This position will require being in the office 4 days a week. We believe that an in-office presence is critical for talent development collaboration and building strong relationships.