Academy Music Group
Head of Strategic Delivery
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Job Summary
Company
Academy Music Group
Department
Project team
Location
Brixton, London and travel
Reports to
CEO
Working Hours
Full time
Job Type
Permanent
Role Description
The Head of Strategic Delivery plays a critical role in helping Academy Music Group deliver its strategic objectives across its portfolio of venues and live entertainment businesses.
Working closely with the Executive Team, the role acts as a trusted advisor, facilitator, and delivery lead, ensuring that strategic priorities are translated into clear action plans and successfully executed across the organisation.
The role is responsible for driving accountability, improving cross-functional collaboration, and ensuring that key business initiatives remain on track, on budget, and aligned with AMG's strategic objectives.
Acting as the bridge between strategy and execution, the Head of Strategic Delivery provides oversight of major projects, business planning processes, and organisational priorities, helping the Executive Team maintain focus on the initiatives that will deliver the greatest impact.
The role combines strategic business partnering, programme management, operational improvement, and project delivery to support the continued growth and evolution of Academy Music Group.
The person in this role should wake up each morning and think "What's stopping AMG moving faster, and how do I fix it"?
Who You Are
Competencies / Skills / Knowledge / Experience
Essential
- Significant experience operating in a strategic delivery, programme management, business transformation, consulting, or senior project leadership role.
- Proven track record of delivering complex, high-value projects involving multiple stakeholders.
- Strong commercial awareness and understanding of business performance drivers.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Strong presentation and report writing capability.
- Experience preparing Executive Team and Board-level papers and presentations.
- Ability to influence outcomes without direct line management authority.
- Excellent stakeholder management skills.
- Strong organisational skills and attention to detail.
- Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, dynamic environment with multiple competing priorities.
- Advanced Microsoft Office skills, particularly PowerPoint, Excel, and Teams.
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Desirable
- Experience within live entertainment, events, hospitality, leisure, or venue operations.
- Formal project management qualification such as PRINCE2, MSP, Agile, or equivalent.
- Experience of business transformation, organisational change, or operational improvement programmes.
- Knowledge of governance, compliance, and risk management frameworks.
Behaviours
The following attributes determine how the role will be carried out and are required to be a success
- Commercially minded and strategically focused.
- Highly organised with strong attention to detail.
- Confident communicator with credibility at Executive level.
- Naturally collaborative and relationship driven.
- Resilient and comfortable working through ambiguity.
- Curious, proactive, and solutions focused.
- Willing to challenge constructively and hold stakeholders accountable.
- Passionate about delivering results and improving performance.
What The Role Includes
Drive Delivery
- Own the execution of AMG's strategic priorities, ensuring initiatives are delivered at pace and obstacles are removed quickly.
Improve Commercial Performance
- Work with venue leadership to identify opportunities that increase revenue, strengthen promoter relationships, and improve venue utilisation.
Deliver Capital Investment
- Prioritise and accelerate AMG's capital programme, ensuring projects deliver maximum commercial value and are completed efficiently.
Lead Across the Business
- Act on behalf of the Executive Team to align departments, challenge performance, and drive accountability across the organisation.
Improve the Business
- Continuously identify opportunities to improve processes, governance, collaboration, and operational performance.
Single point of truth
- Act as the central point of accountability for business information across the Academy Music Group portfolio, ensuring the Executive Team and Board have access to accurate, timely, and consistent reporting.
- Own the integrity of business data, performance metrics, and KPIs, providing both regular reporting and rapid analysis in response to emerging business priorities.
- Lead the preparation and quality assurance of Board and Executive reporting, ensuring papers are insightful, commercially focused, and aligned across all business functions.
- Challenge data where necessary, identify inconsistencies, and ensure recommendations are supported by robust analysis.
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Success Measures
- Delivery of AMG strategic priorities and business plans.
- Successful execution of key cross-functional projects.
- Improved organisational alignment and accountability.
- Enhanced visibility of project performance and business delivery.
- Achievement of agreed project outcomes, timelines, and budgets.
- Positive feedback from the Executive Team and senior stakeholders.
- Measurable improvements in business performance, efficiency, and operational effectiveness.
Equal Opportunities
We are passionate and committed to our people and go beyond the rhetoric of diversity and inclusion. You will be working in an inclusive environment and be encouraged to bring your whole self to work. We will do all that we can to help you successfully balance your work and home life. As a growing business, we will encourage you to develop your professional and personal aspirations, enjoy new experiences, and learn from the talented people you will be working with. It’s talent that matters to us and we encourage applications from people irrespective of their gender identity, race, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability status, or caring responsibilities.
The Company
Academy Music Group (AMG) is the UK’s leading owner and operator of live music and entertainment venues with award-winning credentials. Several of our historic theatres are unique institutions of British music and culture, and our vision is to inspire artists and audiences by hosting unforgettable live performances.
AMG is part of Live Nation Entertainment, which is the world’s leading live entertainment company comprised of global market leaders: Ticketmaster, Live Nation Concerts, LN Media, and Artist Nation Management.
APPLICATION DEADLINE: Wednesday 19th August 2026. We reserve the right to close applications at any time.
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