Vice President, Business Analysis

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posted this job on 07/17/08

Universal Music Group Distribution (UMGD) is currently seeking a Vice President, Business Analysis for the Universal City, CA location.

This position is responsible for the overall leadership and management of the planning, development and operations of Universal Music Group Distribution group’s Business Analysis organization.

This position will assist the sales and marketing departments in home office, and support initiatives in the field. Data and reports will be analyzed for their interpretation as well as defining relativity to current and future business strategies.

Will need to continually provide new and innovative reporting and analysis to stay ahead of business trends and make business recommendations to sales and marketing executives.

Company will rely of this position to support and confirm, or deny and revise business strategies based on finding of revenues and ROI from proposed business changes management team.



Responsibilities:

• Provide leadership and management of Business Analysis resources to ensure timely, quality, and cost effective delivery of analysis.
• Forecasting current and new releases
• Develop statistical models to predict future sales of titles
• Retail analysis to support advertising and program spending
• Retail pricing analysis to support pricing trends and decisions
• Oversight into Music Mart (data warehouse) data and deciding how to utilize it in analysis and reporting and distribution
• Conducting special retail advertising analysis and proposals
• Ensure timely and complete steering committee project lists are developed weekly. Participate in a weekly review of the individual project status and prioritization with senior management personnel from business unit constituents.
• Ensure the appropriate training, development, and evaluation of assigned staff. Guide and coach the assigned staff in the objective-setting process in the direction of the overall goals and objectives outlined in the Business Analysis Mission Statement and Charter and shared expectations of UMGD.
• Responsible for ensuring timely and complete communications occur with other business units as it relates to industry information, news, changes and analysis.
• As appropriate provide ideas, information, and participate in UMGD strategic planning processes.

Supervisory Responsibilities: Including but not limited to: Business Analysis Directors, Managers and Coordinators.


Internal Relationships: This position must interact with all levels of UMG management.


External Relationships: This position has contact with various owned and associated labels as well as third parties and IT resources.



Requirements:

• Possess high level strengths in analysis, statistics, and logic in developing and interpreting data.
• Understand SoundScan and BDS in depth, and how to make applications to sales efforts.
• Understand ROI, have ability to make recommendations on business decisions based on financial analysis.
• Develop statistical "tools" using analysis that will enhance sales efforts
• Possess solid financial understandings
• A sense of creativity in report development
• Ability to understand meaning of data after reports are read
• Ability to communicate the meaning of data analysis and its relationship to current business strategies
• Ability to communicate with all levels of management and executive


Soft Skills Profile:
• Strong leadership ability in directing people and shepherding projects
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Effective communicator
• Detail oriented
• Self-motivated
• Multitasking
• Strong organizational & planning skills


Experience/Knowledge:
• 10+ year’s of music industry experience including retail account base including both physical and digital products with increasing responsibilities in a large organization.
• 10-15+ years managing multiple analytical teams supporting a large business environment
• 10+ years of proven experience in effectively communicating and interacting with all levels of personnel and business units.


Education/Other:
• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration/Management or equivalent work experience, Masters preferable
• Experience with On-line Analytical Processing (OLAP) tools a plus

City/State

Universal City, CA

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