Our client, a successful, eclectic indie label are seeking an experienced Label Manager. The ideal candidate will have substantial music industry experience, spanning artist campaign management, artist development, distribution, strategic planning, team leadership and financial oversight, ideally within the independent sector. The successful candidate will be joining a growing business and assume responsibility for managing and optimising the operational structure of the business.
Key responsibilities will include:
- Providing leadership to optimise the operational structure and managing the execution of the Label’s vision.
- Overseeing the full scope of the Label’s infrastructure across A&R, Marketing, Distribution, Sync, Content, and Live and Digital strategy.
- Ensuring smooth execution of campaigns with internal alignment with successful maintenance of internal systems, workflows and calendars.
- Coordinating cross-functional communication between internal staff, external partners, and artist teams.
- Overseeing success project execution with elimination of bottlenecks, issue resolution and improving workflows.
- Collaborating extensively with the Founders with long-term planning, resource allocation, and growth strategies.
- Producing actionable quarterly and yearly operational roadmaps from high-level strategy.
- Identifying opportunities for cost efficiency, audience growth, and innovation across the business.
- Overseeing the execution of all artist release campaigns.
- Ensuring campaigns are commercially effective, within deadlines, and aligned with artists.
- Leading weekly campaign reporting, reviewing performance metrics, and adjusting strategy as needed.
- Supporting artist careers with effective release cycles, collaborations, touring support, and brand-building.
- Taking responsibility for the Label’s budgets, to include forecasting and reporting.
- Collaborating with finance and accounting teams to track expenditure, optimise spend, and monitor cashflow.
- Leading negotiations with service providers, freelancers, and vendors.
- Overseeing daily operations of A&R, Marketing, Digital, Creative, Sync & Partnerships departments.
- Serving as a senior point of contact for artists, managers, and distributors.
- Serving the internal team with leadership and mentoring to meet performance targets.
- Identifying and mitigating risks related to campaigns, contracts, scheduling, artist relationships, or financial decisions.
- Ensuring that legal, publishing, licencing and data compliance procedures are upheld.
Requirements:
- Senior experience in label management or label services, music industry operations or music start-ups essential.
- Proven knowledge of the DSP landscape, artist brand development, marketing strategy and the release cycle.
- Proven history producing successful artist campaigns.
- Strong experience building and managing multiple teams/external agencies.
- Strategic and highly organised approach to work.
- Confident working in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong project management skills.
- Able to integrate creativity with business objectives.
- Familiarity with budget creation, reconciliation, cost efficiency and reporting. Also familiarity with the corresponding tools such as Excel, Xero or similar.
- Strong interpersonal skills honed within artist relations and working with internal teams.
- Working knowledge of Project Management tools such as Airtable/Trello/Notion.
- DSP ecosystems to include Spotify for Artists, Apple Music, Pitching tools.
- Familiarity with data tools such as Chartmetric, MusicAlly, and Soundcharts.
- Familiarity with CRM/Email marketing tools such as Openstage, Mailchimp etc.
Please note that due to the volume of submissions, only successful candidates who meet the exact requirements will be contacted. If you have not heard back within 10 days of submission, please assume that your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion.
The Music Market/Arts and Media are an equal opportunities employer who supports diversity in the workplace.
