People Partner, Brazil

At Warner Music Group, we’re 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 we’re 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 we’re 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 from 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: People Partner, Brazil

A little bit about our team:

The People team sits at the heart of Warner Music Group and is focused on attracting, retaining, and developing exceptional people, enabling them to be the best they can be to drive Warner’s continued success in the marketplace. The team designs, implements and facilitates People & Culture programs around Recruitment, Management & Development, Employee Engagement, Compensation and Benefits, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and HR Processes & Policies. Our team also partners with the business to support key organizational initiatives. We are passionate about what we do, always striving for better, willing to go the extra mile and happy to roll up our sleeves to support our colleagues.

Your role:

We are looking for a creative, culturally curious and commercially oriented leader to partner with our business and transform the employee experience in our Brazil office. You’ll be a driver of change, growth-minded and relentless in your focus to deliver on our employee value proposition and to hire, develop and retain the very best talent. You’ll exercise extraordinary stakeholder management skills, dual reporting through to our Brazilian business leadership team and our LatAm People team, and your cultural curiosity and influence will yield great ideas and pragmatic ways to deliver our people agenda.

Here you’ll get to:

• Serve as the primary people team contact for Brazil while also working closely with the regional VP, People - Latin America to successfully deliver programs, initiatives and cycles that enhance the employee experience.

• Roll out key people processes including policy introduction and oversee the full employee lifecycle from onboarding to offboarding.

• Oversee daily people operations, including data management, onboarding, terminations, employee relations, and compensation changes.

• Exercise a data-driven approach, using insight to identify trends and inform decisions.

• Understand and align with the business model, goals, vision, and culture to contribute to organizational development and people & culture priorities.

• Be courageous in inspiring change across our Brazilian team(s), transforming culture, evangelizing a unified vision for our People and workplace and transforming the business.

• Lead talent management and organizational development efforts to modernize and enhance the workplace.

• Proactively champion the DEI, EVP and ESG agendas and ensure activities align to this and local ERGs are supported and connected to leadership.

• Navigate complex team dynamics and environments, influencing business leadership to evolve local culture positively.

• Oversee the bi-weekly payroll process, ensuring accuracy and timely payments by reviewing timecards and updating payroll systems.

• Oversee the internship program, providing meaningful tasks and projects to develop interns’ skills.

• Participate in and lead various people & culture projects and initiatives, aligning them with business objectives.

• Partner with global people team members to manage matrixed complexities relating to global teams with Brazilian based resources, keeping stakeholders appraised and engaged.

• Formulate partnerships across the People function to deliver value-added services reflecting the business's objectives.

• Maintain effective level of business literacy about business unit’s financial position, its midrange plans, its culture and its competition.

• Build and maintain meaningful relationships with key stakeholders and people teams within the organization.

• Navigate complex situations, environments and team dynamics including reorganizations, ER cases etc.

• Identify reward strategies that recognize high performance, innovation and creativity.

About you:

• 8+ years of proven experience in HR Management with strong understanding of HR processes and best practices.

• You’re resilient and able to take on complex situations with enthusiasm and a sense of calm.

• You exhibit a high level of emotional intelligence and awareness.

• Project management and delivery capabilities – you’re highly organized.

• You exhibit a high level of emotional intelligence and awareness.

• You have a keen eye for continuous improvement and operational efficiency.

• You have a high tolerance of ambiguity and are flexible to business needs.

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills

• Fluent in Portuguese and English. Spanish is desirable.

• Proficiency in HR and payroll systems

• Strong organizational and multitasking abilities

• Ability to navigate complex situations and influence leadership.

We’d love it if you also had:

• Recorded music industry experience or entertainment sector.

• University degree in business management or related.

• Experience of cloud-based HR systems (Workday).

About us:

As the home to Asylum, Atlantic, East West, Elektra, FFRR, Fueled by Ramen, Nonesuch, Parlophone, Rhino, Roadrunner, Sire, Warner Records, Warner Classics, and several other of the world’s 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 catalogue of more than one million copyrights worldwide. Redefining what it means to be a music company in the 21st century, our consumer brands include trend-setters like UPROXX, Songkick, HipHopDX, and EMP. We’re also the home to WMX – the next generation services division that connects artists with fans and amplifies brands in creative, immersive, and engaging ways – and Alternative Distribution Alliance (ADA) – the ground-breaking global distribution company for independent artists and labels.

Together, we are Warner Music Group: Music With Vision & Voice.

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 world’s 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 WMX. In 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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Don’t be discouraged if you don’t hear from us right away. We’re taking our time to review all resumes, and to find the best people for WMG.

Thanks for your interest in working for WMG. We love it here, and think you will, too.

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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.