The Job
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