VP Orchard

About Sony Music Entertainment

At Sony Music Entertainment, we fuel the creative journey. We've played a pioneering role in music history, from the first-ever music label to the invention of the flat disc record. We've nurtured some of music's most iconic artists and produced some of the most influential recordings of all time.

Today, we work in more than 70 countries, supporting a diverse roster of international superstars, developing and independent artists, and visionary creators. From our position at the intersection of music, entertainment, and technology, we bring imagination and expertise to the newest products and platforms, embrace new business models, employ breakthrough tools, and provide powerful insights that help our artists push creative boundaries and reach new audiences.

In everything we do, we're committed to artistic integrity, transparency, and entrepreneurship.

Sony Music Entertainment is a member of the Sony family of global companies.

The VP, People Experience (PX) Business Partner, West Coast owns the strategy, leadership and delivery of the PX agenda for our West Coast business units, approx. 350+ employees across the labels and corporate teams anchored in our Los Angeles office. You are the senior PX voice in the market: trusted partner to the CEO, COO and label/BU Presidents, and the leader who turns their business plans into a coherent, best-in-class employee experiences across the full employee journey.

This is a strategy and a delivery role. You set direction in partnership with the Americas and Global PX leadership, and you lead a team of two to three PX Business Partners to execute it. You join the PX Americas leadership team, and help drive our vision: to be recognized as a people-centric company that transforms the music industry and beyond.

Strategic Business Partnership

• Serve as day-to-day PX partner and trusted advisor to the CEO, COO, and Presidents across your businesses, with oversight of the wider employee experience delivered through your team.
• Set market priorities with each leader, anchored in the business plan and the annual culture survey, and translate them into a clear PX plan across the employee journey.
• Build durable, strong and candid relationships with local leadership and employees; balancing strategic counsel with hands-on support.
• Drive operational improvement in how the business runs: systems, processes, new technology and ways of working, workflow integration, workforce planning, and staffing models, in partnership with the wider Americas PX team and Business Leaders.
• Provide oversight and judgment on employee relations matters with the People Relations team, owning the leadership-facing dimension of sensitive issues.
• Lead with data, analytics and financials to build the business case for change, including quarterly people-data and insight reviews with each leadership team.
• Contribute to M&A activity through PX due diligence and cultural and systems integration, with the VP PX M&A Lead, PX Operations, and Total Rewards.

• Lead the annual compensation planning and review cycle for each business unit you support, working with COO & finance lead, local PX partners and the compensation team.
• Partner on the annual Business Planning process with the CEO, COO and Finance Lead, setting the people priorities that enable the strategic plan for the year ahead.
• Drive weekly people planning and executive updates on headcount, open roles, employee contracts and people shifts.
• Partner with the PX COEs and local PX partners across the full employee lifecycle, from hiring to exit, including the intern and early career experience for the LA offices.
• Oversee the onboarding experience of all new hires and ensure PXBPs lead it in partnership with PXOps and the People Leader
• Own the annual employee engagement survey process, for your business units, from planning and communications through analysis and action planning with senior leaders.

Culture, Change & Continuous Improvement

• Lead and role-model a strong, label- and business-specific culture through our Global People Promise and Values, one that fuels inclusion, creativity, innovation, and collaboration.
• Drive organizational change and transformation, guiding leaders and employees through thechange curve and building teams that are resilient and steady under pressure.
• Think like a business leader. Build deep commercial and industry acumen and adapt PX practices to enable our creator-first approach.
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