Talent Acquisition Specialist

This is a Full Time Job


Job Description:

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.

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. The team designs, implements and facilitates HR programs around Recruitment, Learning &
Development, Employee Engagement, Compensation and Benefits and HR Processes & Policies. Our team also partners with the business to support key organisational initiatives. As part of the People team, our dynamic and
diverse Talent Acquisition team is responsible for finding and hiring the best talent for the business, and partnering with our business leaders on their people strategies.

Your role:
You will be responsible for identifying and attracting the very best people for our business, responding to live briefs in order to fill open vacancies as well as actively building up a talent pipeline for the future. You will collaborate with our hiring managers to create, develop and execute targeted search strategies to identify top talent. You will also have the opportunity to take on special projects to drive improvements to the candidate and hiring manager experience, as well as leading our internship and work experience programmes. It's a busy and
varied role which requires passion, creativity and effective planning and strategy.

Here you'll get to:
• Lead end to end recruitment process for a number of live vacancies, from initial briefing with hiring manager
through to offer and onboarding
• Work closely with hiring managers to develop and execute effective sourcing strategies, thinking creatively
about how we engage and attract the best talent for open roles, as well as building pipelines for upcoming
searches
• Ensure open vacancies are advertised on all applicable sites including Warner careers site and all suitable
job boards and social networking sites
• Where necessary, work with recruitment agencies to help us identify talent for open roles, including briefing
and monitoring progress and adherence to SLAs
• Deliver feedback to successful and unsuccessful candidates in a timely manner
• Actively establish new partnerships and expand network of websites, user groups and other resources where
talent can be identified
• Quickly build strong working relationship with all partners, including hiring managers and other members of
the People team
• Quickly develop sound understanding of the music industry and departments through thorough briefing
meetings with managers as well as desk-based research
• Play a key role in designing and delivering our 'early in career' offering which includes our work experience
and internship programs
• Take ownership of special projects which drive enhancements to our candidate and hiring manager
experience
• Represent WMG at external networking events and panel discussions, promoting employer brand
• Schedule interviews and attend where necessary to provide support to hiring manager

About you:
• Experience in a full-cycle recruitment role with demonstrable experience of developing and executing
innovative search techniques, using LinkedIn, social media and other tools to identify candidates
• Demonstrated ability to develop practical and creative sourcing plans which deliver results
• Fluency in social media, networking platforms and internet search to generate prospects
• Impeccable communication skills, both written and verbal, you are confident communicating at all levels both
internally and externally
• Ability to quickly build strong working relationships, both internally and externally
• First class organisational skills with experience of handling multiples priorities simultaneously; ability to
effectively prioritise and work quickly
• Flexible approach and ready to adapt to changing demands
• Experience working with an ATS (ideally Workday)
• Proficiency in all MS Office Applications; Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint

We'd love it if you also had:
• Experience working within the music or media industry, although certainly not essential
• Experience running recruitment programmes for interns and apprentices
• Experience leading diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives in the recruitment space is a bonus, a passion
for this is a must!

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 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.
Love this job and want to apply?
Click the ''Apply'' link at the top of the page, or apply directly with your LinkedIn. Applying with LinkedIn will import
all of the information you put in your profile, but will still allow you to upload a resume and cover letter.

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.

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 applica

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