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About the Role

The Catalogue team acts as the dedicated engine for maximizing the cultural and commercial value of Warner Chappell Music’s legendary assets. This role serves as a strategic bridge between iconic legacy compositions and the modern entertainment landscape, ensuring catalogues remain vibrant, relevant, and profitable. You will be at the forefront of curating, nurturing, and expanding our existing music catalogue, identifying and acquiring high-quality music assets that align with the company's vision and goals.

Responsibilities

Lead Catalogue Strategy & Business Development
Develop and deliver the UK catalogue acquisition and administration strategy in partnership with the Managing Director and Global Head of Catalogue.
Build and maintain a robust pipeline of acquisition and administration opportunities across the UK and international markets.
Identify new catalogue opportunities through proactive market engagement, market intelligence and strategic relationship management.
Contribute commercial insight and market expertise to support Warner Chappell’s wider global catalogue strategy and investment priorities.
Lead Commercial Evaluation & Deal Execution
Lead the commercial evaluation of catalogue opportunities, assessing financial performance, copyright position, historical significance, market trends and long-term strategic value.
Develop commercial business cases and investment recommendations for senior leadership.
Lead complex negotiations with songwriters, estates, publishers, lawyers, managers, investors and other rights holders.
Partner with Finance, Legal & Business Affairs, Copyright, Creative and Sync teams to structure, negotiate and execute catalogue acquisition and administration agreements.
Drive Market Intelligence & Strategic Insight
Maintain expert knowledge of the global music industry landscape, licensing developments, copyright legislation and catalogue investment trends.
Identify emerging commercial opportunities, evolving market dynamics and new revenue streams that support catalogue growth.
Provide strategic market insight and recommendations to senior leadership, helping inform acquisition priorities and long-term planning.
Portfolio Leadership & Value Optimisation
Oversee the successful onboarding and integration of newly acquired and administered catalogues.
Work closely with global catalogue, Creative, Sync, Copyright and Commercial teams to maximise the long-term value and performance of Warner Chappell’s catalogue portfolio.
Monitor portfolio performance, identifying opportunities to increase commercial returns, creative engagement and catalogue exploitation.
Champion initiatives that unlock new revenue opportunities across existing and emerging platforms.
Industry Leadership & Relationship Management
Build and maintain trusted relationships with leading songwriters, artists, estates, publishers, lawyers, managers, investors and other key rights holders.
Represent Warner Chappell at industry events, conferences and commercial negotiations.
Act as a senior ambassador for Warner Chappell, strengthening the company’s reputation within the global music industry community.
Develop long-term strategic relationships that generate future catalogue acquisition and administration opportunities.

Requirements

Proven experience in catalogue acquisitions, business development or commercial strategy within the music industry.
High-energy go-getter with a relentless drive and unmatched initiative.
Deep and authentic relationships across the entire music ecosystem.
Innate understanding of how music trends move, how demographics consume art, and what makes a song timeless.
Demonstrable success sourcing, evaluating and negotiating complex catalogue acquisition or administration opportunities.
Extensive knowledge of music copyright, licensing, royalty structures and rights administration.
Strong commercial and financial acumen, with experience evaluating catalogue performance and preparing commercial recommendations for senior stakeholders.
Deep understanding of the global music industry landscape, catalogue investment trends and commercial opportunities.
Outstanding negotiation, communication and influencing skills, with the ability to build credibility at senior levels across the music industry.
Excellent analytical, strategic thinking and decision-making skills, with the ability to balance creative and commercial priorities.
Proven ability to lead cross-functional initiatives and operate effectively within a global, matrix organisation.
Experience mentoring or developing others and contributing to a collaborative, high-performing team culture.
Ability to design high-quality decks and visual materials using presentation platforms, such as Canva or Google Slides.
Proactive approach to integrating Generative AI (e.g., Gemini) into everyday work to support and streamline daily tasks and overall productivity.

Skills

Catalogue acquisitions
Business development
Commercial strategy
Music industry knowledge
Music history
Music genres
Industry trends
Copyright
Licensing
Royalty structures
Rights administration
Financial acumen
Negotiation
Communication
Influencing
Analytical thinking
Strategic thinking
Decision-making
Cross-functional leadership
Presentation design
Generative AI integration

Location

Work Type

Onsite
Full-time

Experience Level

Senior

About the Company

Warner Music Group is a global collective of music makers and music lovers, tech innovators and inspired entrepreneurs, game-changing creatives and passionate team members.
WMG is home to a wide range of artists, musicians, and songwriters that fuel our success.
WMG is 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 world’s premier recording labels.
Warner Chappell Music represents genre-spanning songwriters and producers through a catalog of more than one million copyrights worldwide.
WMG is also home to ADA, which supports the independent community, as well as artist services division WMX.
WMG counts film and television storytelling powerhouse Warner Music Entertainment among its many brands.

Equal Opportunity

WMG is committed to inclusion and diversity in all aspects of our business.
We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and will evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, religion or belief, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or gender reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, disability, pregnancy, childbirth or any other characteristic protected by law.