CEO (m/f/d)

About the job

SUISA makes music possible

SUISA is the cooperative of authors and publishers of music. Over 44,000 composers, lyricists, and music publishers are organized in the company founded in 1923. SUISA enables music to be used publicly and ensures that the music creators are fairly paid for this use.
With sister companies worldwide, it represents the rights of a total of two million authors and publishers. SUISA employs over 220 staff at locations in Zurich, Lausanne, and Lugano.

SUISA connects music creators and music users! Are you ready to succeed the long-standing CEO and want to commit yourself to this exciting and meaningful task?

These activities will inspire you

• Development and implementation of the corporate strategy in line with the cooperative purpose
• Overall responsibility for operational business (licensing, collection, distribution)
• Leadership, restructuring, and further development of the corporate organization and the management team
• Positioning SUISA nationally and internationally as a high-quality service provider in licensing for copyright
• Proactive action to identify market opportunities and anticipate challenges in this business
• Ensuring the long-term economic stability and competitiveness of the entire company
• Development and leadership of cross-company transformation and
  digitalization processes
• Balancing different interests of authors and publishers
• Ensuring transparent and fair distribution systems
• Maintaining dialogue with music creators, authors, publishers, as well as
  music users and their umbrella organizations
• Representing SUISA towards politics, authorities, courts, and the arbitration commission (ESchK) as well as in international umbrella organizations and committees
• Leading or accompanying negotiations on tariffs and licensing conditions with music users and their umbrella organizations (economiesuisse, trade association, Gastrosuisse, SWICO, and others)

What distinguishes you

• Proven several years of strategic and operational leadership experience with overall responsibility for a medium-sized company
• Very good understanding of the financial management of a company
• Experience or at least knowledge in the field of copyright and
  licensing in the Swiss and international context
• High knowledge in IT governance, technological leadership and development, as well as in digital processes and their optimization
• Experience in the music sector and good networking in the cultural scene
  (e.g., publishing or music management) is a great advantage
• Innovative, shaping attitude with a constant focus on improving and further developing, combined with extensive business management know-how
• Convincing social skills, high communication and negotiation skills, as well as great talent in stakeholder management
• In-depth experience in change management and organizational development as well as
  ability to shape this together with the management team
• Team-oriented, cooperative leadership style with motivational power, steering effect, and appropriate delegation behavior
• High cognitive potential, networked thinking, and pronounced skills in complexity management
• Very good language skills in German, French, English, and ideally
  other national languages

What you can look forward to

Do you feel addressed? Then we look forward to receiving your complete application documents by e-mail to the recruitment consulting firm 

Amrop Executive Search AG, 
André S. Wirz, Partner, 
andre.wirz@amrop.ch. 

If you have any questions or need additional information, he will be happy to assist you by phone (044 919 86 09).