Head of Hub APAC

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At Storytel we believe that powerful stories add an extra dimension to life. Storytel is one of the world’s leading audiobook and ebook streaming services and we offer unlimited listening to consumers in 20+ markets, with several new markets launching in the coming years. Our vision is to make the world a more empathetic place with great stories to be shared and enjoyed by anyone, anywhere, anytime.We are now looking for a Head of Hub for the APAC region to join the team!

About The Role

As a Head of Hub your core mission is to focus on key growth levers for existing and new hub markets and feed in local input to global processes, ensure implementation of global innovations and strategies all in order to deliver on hub targets.

The hub is a way of organizing our important expansion activities as well as existing countries into geographically manageable units with similar challenges and opportunities. Within the hubs, we create a supportive knowledge-sharing culture with joint performance targets. At Storytel we believe in a strong local presence and at the same time reaping the scale benefits of a common tech platform, a common way of working, a global brand and common marketing activities to mention a few. The hub is the link between local and global teams and facilitates communication, organization and management.

You will have a coordinating and managerial responsibility for the countries within the hub (global and local) to ensure progress on key challenges as well as finding creative ways of overdelivering on our growth targets while sticking to agreed-upon budgets together with the local Country Managers within the hub.

You will report to the Head of International and work closely with the rest of the Head of Hubs and the entire commercial and PM organization.

You will work with driving the hub towards targets and contribute to Storytel’s continuous success, which includes:

• Work with Country Managers to define and deliver on budgets, targets and quarterly Business Reviews
• Work closely with Country Managers to focus market team efforts on value-creating levers, to deliver on targets
• Engage in hub related content discussions to align with Content acquisition team to ensure smart investments
• Overlook M&A opportunities in the Hub
• Establishing meaningful and relevant partnerships that will help Storytel become the Audiobook market leader in the region
• Facilitate the Business Review process by supporting local Country Managers as needed and creating a hub Business Review overview
• Ensure best practice sharing within the hub on both Country Manager level as well as within other expert areas such as Content Curation, Marketing, Support etc.
• Engage in deploying new strategies and tools from central teams within Storytel
• Be the link between global and local and vice versa
  

You Will Also Drive The Expansion Agenda Within Hub

• Link back key business requirements for the hub to PMs and global functions
• Develop the expansion roadmap within the hub together with Expansion Leads and Head of Region
• Find expansion opportunities, prepare for Expansion Committee decisions meetings (incl. The Storytel Board of Directors) as well as decide on entry-strategy for new markets
• Be the link to Content Acquisition team and set up local production to plan for new expansion
• Develop our organization in a cost-efficient way and hire local new teams for new markets
  

About You

We are looking for an individual that has:

• A university degree within Business or similar.
• 10+ years of proven professional experience from areas within business management, growth marketing, strategy or similar.
• Experience from successful high-growth digital consumer business, media/entertainment or tech, preferably in a streaming or subscription service context.
• Demonstrated experience in building strong teams through solid leadership skills.
• Experience in managing large teams remotely in the APAC region
• Excellent English communication skills, both written and spoken.
  

To thrive in this role, we believe that you are a highly driven and determined, proactive and results-oriented leader. You are highly focused on delivering optimised value in streaming distribution and subscription models through a creative approach, creating relevant partnerships with local and regional players (telcos, publishers, hardware makers) to bring Storytel brand as the No.1 audiobook company in each country.

In addition, being data-driven, having high execution capacity and great organizational skills is of high value. And lastly, we believe that you are a team player with an entrepreneurial mindset, who thrives in following through on projects from idea to execution.

What We Can Offer

Storytel offers a friendly, entrepreneurial and fast-moving work environment where new ideas and creativity is welcomed. We like doing things in new ways and questioning old truths. The Storytel culture – characterised by being welcoming and helpful – is important to us. We don’t believe in hierarchy and micromanagement, but we highly believe in giving responsibility and having people grow with it. And we always find time for a virtual “fika” (the Swedish word for sitting down and having a cup of coffee together).

We see that the candidate for this position is preferably based in the APAC region, but it’s not a requirement.

Does this sound like something for you? Then don’t hesitate to submit your application and tell us why, no later than 2021-10-15.