Label Manager (all genders)

Universal Music is the market leader in the music business. The world’s most famous and most successful record labels belong to us. We’ve been writing music history for over 100 years representing legendary musicians across all genres. Our accomplishments are driven by our love for music, extraordinary artists, and our ambitious team.

Virgin Music Group is the world’s leading partner to independent music companies and artists who require a standalone team with global infrastructure and local expertise in every major music market around the world. Virgin Music Group offers compelling, efficient, and highly flexible global solutions with the most advanced marketing technology available for independent record labels and artists who want to succeed.

Artists include Tom Odell, Bad Omens, David Kushner, Major Lazer, Lauv, Shygirl, Parcels, MK.gee, Justice, The 1975, Mac DeMarco and many more. Label partners include Because Music, Partisan Records, and Dirty Hit.

Here’s your chance to join! Effective immediately, we’re looking for a Label Manager (all genders) to join us at our Virgin Music Group team in Berlin (hybrid working). It will be a permanent full-time position

Your gig:

• Manage the day-to-day relationships with assigned label partners, acting as the primary point of contact to the label and internally representing their labels' interests
• Liaise with all internal departments including commercial, marketing, catalog, video, operations, production, physical, analytics, finance and legal to ensure all label partners' business needs are met
• Manage label partners' priority release campaign logistics from inception through to analysis, working with other internal departments as necessary
• In collaboration with the Commercial Strategy Team, create and coordinate effective marketing strategies to drive conversations with DSPs and engage retail marketing partnerships such as in-store activities, signing sessions, and exclusive format placements
• Advise label partners on release strategy, positioning, best practices and opportunities across physical and digital channels
• Assist in the distribution of sales notes, regular updates, marketing materials to help campaign visibility. 
• Implement Best Practices across all release campaigns and comfortably use internal and external data sources and help create action plans from the results where necessary

We are keen to jam with you if you:

• Have several years’ experience in music distribution, label management, or project management (covering both physical and digital releases)
• Bring a strong understanding of physical (CD, Vinyl) and digital music distribution, including marketing, operations, and metadata requirements
• Are confident working with data and technology, with the ability to translate insights into strategies and communicate results to partners
• Existing network in the independent music industry and/or digital platforms is a plus
• Feel confident reading, writing, and speaking English and German (both languages at least C1 level)

Your personality matters:

• Excellent organizational and project management skills with strong attention to detail
• Highly effective communicator, skilled in presentations (oral & visual) and stakeholder management
• Problem solver, calm under pressure, able to manage multiple projects simultaneously
• Passion for music, artists, culture, and the evolving music marketplace
  
  

Our values, our compass, our culture:

• Creativity – Home to Artists, Innovators and Entrepreneurs.
• Connection – We are ONE team.
• Passion – Music is our first love.
• Responsibility – It’s up to us.
• Diversity – Music is universal.
• Factuition – Guided by head AND heart.

Our benefits – because you’re important to us:

• Feel the music! – Thanks to a concert ticket budget, streaming service vouchers, employee discounts on physical music and merchandise products as well as various internal events
• Enjoy flexibility! – Thanks to our hybrid work model you benefit from high flexibility and room for collaboration and interactions in our headquarter in Berlin; benefit from up to 10 mobile working days a month
• Time to relax! – You are more than your job, benefit from 30 vacation days as well as up to 10.5 additional days off per year
• Always on track! - Keep moving sustainably through the capital thanks to special rates for BVG tickets (public transport) and our job bike leasing offer
• Develop yourself! - We offer professional development through various workshops and courses
• Self-care matters! – We promote and support mental health with our Employee Assistance Program for all challenges in life (professional and private); we offer confidential counseling and coaching through a third-party provider

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We look forward to receiving your application via our online application form! Please upload your documents in English (letter of motivation / cover letter, CV, references) as files and state your earliest starting date as well as salary expectations.

MUSIC IS UNIVERSAL! 
As a large and globally operating company, Universal Music promotes diversity and opposes discrimination. We aspire to reflect the diversity represented by our artists through their music and individuality in our teams. We pledge ourselves to be an equal opportunity employer and enable individuals to express themselves – regardless of age, sex, gender, appearance, origin, faith, disabilities, or sexual orientation.

If you are unsure about submitting an application, because you have a disability or specific needs, for example, or you do not fulfil all of the requirements, we would like to encourage you to try it nonetheless!
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