VP, People eXperience, The Orchard

• The VP, People Experience (PX), Business Partner for The Orchard owns the strategy, leadership and delivery of the PX agenda for The Orchard’s global business. You are the senior
• PX voice: the trusted advisor to the CEO, COO and The Orchard leadership team, and the leader who translates their business plans into coherent, best-in-class employee experiences
• across the full employee journey. This is both a strategy and a delivery role. You set direction in partnership with the Americas and Global PX leadership, and you lead a team of six to execute it. You will be a member of the PX Business Partner Leadership team and The Orchard leadership team. This role dual reports into the President & COO, The Orchard, and SVP People eXperience/VP Head of Business Partners. You will be a driver of our PX vision: to be recognized as a people-centric company that transforms the music industry and beyond.

What you'll do:

Strategic Business Partnership

• ● Serve as day-to-day PX Business Partner and trusted advisor to the CEO, COO and The Orchard leadership team, with oversight of the broader teams’ employee experience
• through your PXBP team (with responsibility for ~800 employees across over 50 markets around the world).
• ● Set priorities. Partner with the CEO and COO to define the priorities that matter most, anchored in the business plan and the annual culture survey and translate them into a
• clear PX strategic plan across the employee journey.
• ● Drive operational improvement. Identify and implement opportunities to improve 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 the COEs.
• ● Build strong relationships. Cultivate durable, candid relationships with leadership and employees; serve as a key liaison and trusted business partner on all People
• eXperience initiatives, programs, and processes, balancing strategic counsel with hands on support.
• ● Guide employee relations. Provide oversight and judgment on employee relations issues in partnership with the People Relations team, escalating as appropriate and
• owning the leadership-facing dimension of sensitive issues.
• ● Shape enterprise initiatives. Partner with the leadership team and territory leads on key organization development and initiatives that carry implications beyond the local
• market, up to the global business.
• ● Lead through data. Deliver quarterly people-data and insights reviews to your leadership teams and use data, analytics and financials to build the business case for
• change.
• ● Support M&A. Contribute to M&A activities through PX due diligence, cultural and systems integration, in close partnership with the VP PX M&A lead, The Orchard M&A
• team and PX Operations and Total Rewards.

• Operational Delivery & Leadership
• ● Lead the annual compensation planning and review cycle for The Orchard’s global business. Working with COO & CFO on budgeting and local PX partners, compensation
• team on process and delivery.
• ● Partner on the annual Business Planning process with the CEO, COO & CFO Reflecting on organizational successes and challenges, establishing key people
• priorities that drive and enable the business strategic plan for the year ahead.
• ● Drive weekly people planning with the CFO and COO on headcount, open roles, employee contracts and people shifts.
• ● Facilitate quarterly people data and insights review with The Orchard Leadership team address key themes and propose solutions to any trends.
• ● Operational Delivery. Collaborate, influence and partner with COEs and local PX business partners on operational aspects that impact the full employee cycle from hiring
• to exits, including intern and early career experience and fixed-term contractors.
• ● Oversee the onboarding experience of all new hires and ensure PXBPs are guiding the experience in partnership with direct People Leader
• ● Lead the annual employee engagement survey process from planning through action, including communications, analysis of results, and partnering with senior leaders
• to develop and execute meaningful action plans.

• Culture, Change and Continuous Impact
• ● Champion the culture. Lead, role model and develop a strong culture through our Global People Promise and Values, one that fuels inclusion, innovation, and
• collaboration.
• ● Think like a business leader. Build deep commercial and industry acumen and adapt PX practices and approach to reflect and enable our creator first approach.
• ● Lead Change. Drive organizational change and transformation. Guide leaders and employees through the change curve and build teams and individuals that are resilient,
• adaptable, and steady under pressure.
• ● Raise engagement. Own employee engagement initiatives that lift performance and satisfaction, and act on what the culture survey and listening data tell you.
• ● Advance inclusion. In partnership with The Orchard’s D&I team and The Orchard’s leadership team, develop and deliver strategies for diversity, accessibility and inclusion
• at every level.
• ● Build learning capability. Champion The Learning Collective and a culture of continuous learning and growth for leaders and employees, including your own, and lift
• adaptability to new technologies, systems, and ways of working, as well as the continued development of The Orchard Academy.

• Team Leadership & Cross-Functional Partnership
• ● Lead your team. Lead, coach and develop a high-performing team of PX professionals across the US and the UK/Europe. Set clear goals, grow their capability, and hold a high
• bar.
• ● Partner with Sony Music’s centers of excellence (C.O.E’s). Work closely with Talent Acquisition, People Operations, People Relations, Compensation, Benefits, The
• Learning Collective, Organization Success, Diversity and Inclusion, Communication teams to design consistent, high-impact experiences for The Orchard global business.
• ● Connect to the enterprise. Contribute to a highly collaborative USBP, Americas and Global People Experience team on cross-functional and global projects and initiatives.
• ● Deliver for the offices. Ensure close partnership with Finance, Operations, Comms, Diversity & Inclusion, Philanthropy, Social Impact and Environment, Facilities and
• Business & Legal Affairs teams, to develop and deliver an optimal employee experience across all The Orchard offices.
• ● Strategic global compensation partnership. Work with the Compensation & Benefits teams, to set appropriate pay and reward strategies, using market analysis information
• to keep offerings competitive.
• ● Keep compliant. Ensure compliance with local employment laws, regulations, dataprivacy standards, and other relevant local policies.

Required Experience:

• ● 10+ years in HR / People, including 5+ years as a senior HR business partner to C-suite or equivalent executives, leading and developing a team of HR/PX professionals, including a global distributed or matrixed team.
• ● You have demonstrated success coaching and guiding senior executives as a trusted business partner, with the ability to shape, challenge, anticipate needs, speak in
• business outcomes and influence at the top table.
• ● You have experience in working in and leading global teams across different time zones, cultures and can create a team environment wherever people are in the world.
• ● You thrive in fast-paced, creative, tech-driven, and matrixed environments, with a demonstrated ability to drive pragmatic decision-making in a collaborative, team-based setting.
• ● You have a track record driving transformative change from both a culture and business perspective.
• ● You can pivot between strategic solutions and executional activities with agility and can seamlessly adapt to changing business environments and priorities.
• ● You have proven leadership experience, motivating, engaging and developing a globally distributed and matrixed team.
• ● You are experienced in handling of com