Senior Director, PX Business Partner, Iberia

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.
Sony Music Entertainment (SME) is looking for an experienced strategic Associate Director, PX Business Partner to join the People eXperience Team (PXT), formerly known as Human Resources. The PXT creates and executes on a people strategy that drives business success. This people strategy guides how we attract, on-board, develop, motivate, excite, challenge, reward and retain employees.
The ideal candidate will contribute at both hands-on and strategic levels to cultivate an innovative, progressive, and diverse culture practices across the employee lifecycle. You will have experience with integrating and working with creative environments and influencing senior leadership. You will bring thought leadership and creative solutions, as well as exceptional relationship building skills and the ability to adapt, lead and drive change.
The Senior Director, PX Business Partner will lead the strategic development of the People agenda for our Iberia Business, including Spain and Portugal.
Working closely with business unit leadership teams and other Sony entities, the role will define priorities across all critical employee experiences, including organization design, onboarding, engagement, compensation, talent management, career mobility, and initiatives to build a diverse and inclusive culture.
Reporting directly to the VP of People Experience, Latin-Iberia, this role will serve on the Latin-Iberia PX leadership team and have a dotted-line reporting relationship to the General Manager of Iberia Region.
The person will lead a team of 2 direct reports and be responsible for partnering with all the PX SMEs: Talent Acquisition team, PX Business Partners, PX Ops, PX Systems, Total Reward, Org Success, The Learning Collective, and DE&I on strategic initiatives that improve the overall employee experience across the employee journey in both territories.
What you'll do:
Responsible for People Experience (PX) strategy in the Iberia region (Spain and Portugal), ensuring every PX initiative directly supports the Iberia business vision, long-term growth, and employee-centric focus.
Oversee strategic workforce planning, talent management, talent acquisition, total rewards, budgeting, people metrics, culture evolution, and organizational design to ensure we have the right people in place in Iberia.
Trust advisor to the Iberia executive team, shaping policies and initiatives that foster a high-performance organization, inclusive teams, and a values-driven culture based on our Global People Promise.
Coach, consult, and create trusted partnerships across business leaders and their teams, influencing employee engagement, retention, and the overall organizational culture.
Support PX Latin Iberia and Global PX strategy focusing on the strategic initiatives to improve the overall employee experience across key pillars:
Attraction, Hiring & Onboarding Experience (in partnership with TA and PX Operations)
Build best industry-defining capabilities with our current and future workforce through Leadership Development, Career Growth, Mobility Experiences and Talent Management
Place wellbeing at the heart of everything we do through work-life harmony, access to impactful support
Cultivate and inspire our unique culture through SME’s Employee Value Proposition, Employee Engagement, Inclusion, People Partnering, Employee Experiences.
Identify themes, trends, and latest thinking to feed into developing the best strategies and approaches for each of the pillars and drive engagement and retention.