LAS Strategic Support and Business Planning Manager at Believe · Paris

Company Description

Believe is a global artist development company. We empower local artists, labels and publishers to grow their audiences at each stage of their careers with expertise, respect, fairness and transparency.

Operating in 50+ countries, with more than 2,000 employees, Believe offers a full range of services including audience development, publishing, marketing and distribution, with a tailor-made approach to fit any artist, label or publisher.

Believe champions independence and innovation through a unique model that combines local expertise with a global tech platform, delivering exclusive solutions for artists to promote and monetize their music thanks to strategic partnerships with leading global digital service providers.

With a leading portfolio of brands that includes Nuclear Blast, naïve, TuneCore, Groove Attack, Sentric, AllPoints and Byond, Believe artists generated more than 800 billion streams worldwide in 2024 across all genres, and were recognized with more than 70 leading industry awards.

Believe is a simplified joint-stock company under French law.

Ready to set the tone with Believe ?

Job Description

Our Label & Artist Solutions (LAS) division has grown significantly across more than 50 countries worldwide, and we want to consolidate, scale and optimize our development. For that reason, we want to boost our Central Team driving the global development of our LAS activity, by hiring a Strategic Support and Business Planning Manager.

This person will be reporting to the VP LAS Business Strategy & Operations, and will strengthen the LAS Business Strategy & Operations department (reinforcing a team of 3 people).

In this role, you will be in charge of identifying, structuring and implementing strategic opportunities to develop, scale and optimize our LAS business worldwide.

Main responsibilities will be, for a portfolio of several countries:

Strategic Support & business planning

• Model and maintain 5-years strategic and financial business plan for each country within your portfolio, and each market segments inside those countries
• Prepare and review Countries' strategic materials (memos, presentations, etc) and participate to align all central and local teams on the outcomes
• Quantify Long term business objectives into solid short term objectives and KPIs, especially in the course of the yearly Budget Preparation and 3 annual reforecasts
• Formalize and maintain Sales Policy & Objectives, with KPIs per country and per segment
• Drive LAS Blueprint optimization: analyze staffing level, productivity and efficiency KPIs, discuss conclusions with local management and follow-up corrective actions
• Support Countries’ General Managers and Sales Directors with ad’hoc analysis and business intelligence
• Drive and/or support the go-to-market of any new strategic initiative (ex : new commercial offers, sales or contractual process updates…)

Support & Monitor Day-to-day business execution

• Work with Central Sales Department to prepare and animate monthly Business Performance Reviews & Monitoring meetings
• Provide analytical and process support on large, complex international deals
• Support central and local sales teams by assessing the value and impact of their deals, by providing computations of impact on the business plans, studying different scenarios
• Support LAS inorganic expansion, by facilitating catalog acquisition process

· Support Central Excellence

• Structure and support Central LAS governance (participate to performance reporting, steering committee management, board presentations…)
• Own a portfolio of strategic datasets or business topics (ex : Churn, Pricing Grids, staffing structure, Upsells), and ensure data consistency, completeness, granularity and automatization, for this to be used among every strategic analysis Groupe-wide
• o the attention of Group’s top management, on your countries, draft meetings pre-read / write follow-ups / track and report on execution

To be successful in this role, you will need to love working on fast moving ecosystem, with transversal projects implying a high number of stakeholders (often with high level of seniority), and with a strong understanding on how to work with international teams, to develop profitable growth model.

Qualifications

Master's degree from a business or engineering school, or equivalent. Minimum 6 years of experience, with track records in leading cross-functional projects, ideally within a consulting firm and within a scale-up company.

We would highly favor someone that can show both financial and business development acumen

During your experiences you have developed the following skills:

• Very good problem solver, ability to understand and adapt to different environments and personalities
• Strong analytical and modeling skills
• Demonstrated project management capacities (transformation projects, business development, roadmap definition, etc)
• Able to work effectively across functions/teams and in close relationships with Top Management
• Dynamic profile with drive, pro-activity and strong interpersonal skills
• Understanding / strong appetite to understand the Music / Tech Industry
• Mastering Excel and Powerpoint
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, in English and French

You are recognized for your ability to interact with internal multidisciplinary teams, sense of organization and priorities and an ability to manage numerous subjects in parallel.

Additional Information

SET THE TONE​

​Working at Believe means having individual and collective impact in a fast-growing company! ​

At all stages of their careers, Believers are an important part of what we are doing: shaping the future of the music industry. ​

We need teams that truly reflect the diversity of our clients: our international presence is an inspiring and enriching work environment for each one of us, with daily opportunities to connect with our colleagues all over the world. ​

​We have two hearts at Believe - our People and our Artists. ​

We believe in THE POWER OF OUR PEOPLE, who grow every day to develop their potential… We aim to provide our Believers with the best environment to thrive. ​

ROCK THE JOB ​

• Tailor-made training and coaching program ​
• Remote working policy​
• A wellness program "Pauses" with many activities and animations in-house​
• Access to Eutelmed, a digital mental health and well-being platform that allows you to speak with an experienced psychologist​
• A healthy and eco-responsible company restaurant​
• Individual or family health insurance​
• CSE benefits ​
• A rooftop​
• A gym with free classes​

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​SING IN HARMONY ​

• Ambassador program: an employee volunteering initiative dedicated to all Believers interested in having a positive impact on Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI), wellbeing and the planet.​
• Implementation of the sustainable mobility package “Forfait mobilité durable” => Reimbursement of up to 600€ for public transport/low carbon footprint​
• 5 calendar days 2nd parent leave with 100% pay (in addition to the legal paternity or adoption leave)​

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We are committed to having a workforce that is representative of the community it serves at all levels of the organisation. We, therefore, welcome applications from all backgrounds and all sections of the community regardless of age, disability, gender, race, religion and sexual orientation.