Head of Strategic Delivery

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"?

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.

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

• 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.
• This role will ensure leadership decisions are based on a single, trusted version of the truth.
• 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.

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 homelife. 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.

Benefits

• Generous vacation
• Healthcare
• Retirement benefits
• Student loan repayment
• Tuition reimbursement
• Six months of paid caregiver leave for new parents including fostering and perks like Roadie Babies helping new parents care for their babies on work trips
• Access to free live events through our exclusive employee ticketing program

The Company

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. Recognized for seven years as a Great Place to Work and named one of Fortune's World's Most Admired Companies, Live Nation Entertainment is the world's leading live entertainment company comprised of global market leaders: Ticketmaster, Live Nation Concerts, and Live Nation Media & Sponsorship.

Application Deadline

APPLICATION DEADLINE: Wednesday 19th August 2026. We reserve the right to close applications at any time.

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