Manager, Label Management - Montréal, Canada - The Orchard

Description

As the
Manager, Label Management based in Montreal, your role is crucial in ensuring our clients' label releases are launched effectively in the market.

You will keep our clients up-to-date with the latest trends and developments in the music industry, including best practices and retail strategies.

Owning and maintaining solid relationships with our clients and their team is essential to achieving our objectives.


What you'll do:

• Manage day to day relationships with Canadian based distributed music and video clients.
• Maintain positive and productive relationships with artists, management, agents, and industry contacts of varying sizes and genres. Provide advice and assistance on all aspects of music distribution to ensure their success.
• Provide guidance and support to labels on digital release best practices and metadata requirements. Handle approvals and updates of digital releases.
• Collaborate with labels and internal departments to help create, communicate, and execute new release and catalog development plans and strategies.
• Liaise with all internal departments, including finance, marketing, and legal, to meet all label business needs.
• Manage overall distribution release process from strategy, to set up and coordinate with sales, manufacturing, and inventory management; may include physical.
• Distribute critical assets to global retail and marketing teams, to ensure all crossfunctional stakeholders are appraised of our labels' efforts to support releases.
• Oversee the complete lifecycle of audio and video products from ingestion to delivery, including seeing releases from label submission via our Workstation portal through to delivery via our Admin backend
• Collaborate with various teams at The Orchard to ensure our labels' audio and video catalogs are effectively delivered, claimed, and monetized.
• Drive label engagement utilizing internal marketing and data analytic tools to guide and support strategic decisions for marketing and sales goals. Continuously interpret data, and propose solutions and optimization to labels and artists to ensure that the label remains competitive in the music industry
• Attend artist shows after work hours as necessary.
• Perform a wide range of additional tasks per the label rosters evolving needs. Including but not limited to, collaborating with the digital marketing and design team to deliver compelling release campaigns, creating and presenting comprehensive label business reviews, catalog ingestions, clearing claims, and managing rights conflicts.

Who you are:

• At least 3+ years of experience in music partnership management
• Strong analytical and problemsolving skills
• Ability to manage multiple tasks and timelines
• A strong passion for music and the music industry
• Experience with digital music platforms
• Proven track record of success in managing labels or artists
• Extensive knowledge of the music industry, including trends, challenges, and opportunities
• Strong business acumen and understanding of financial and budget management
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build and maintain relationships with artists, labels, and other key partners
• Creative thinker with the ability to develop and execute innovative marketing and promotional campaigns

The anticipated annual base salary does not include any other compensation components or other benefits that an individual may be eligible for.

The actual base salary offered depends on a variety of factors, which may include as applicable, the qualifications of the individual applicant for the position, years of relevant experience, specific and unique skills, level of education attained, certifications or other professional licenses held, and the location in which the applicant lives and/or from which they will be performing the job.

Montreal Pay Range
$65,000—$70,000 CAD


About The Orchard:

The Orchard is a leading music distribution company operating in 45 markets worldwide - distributing music from independent artists including Ozuna, Skepta, Jorja Smith, and Kelsea Ballerini.

With cutting edge operations and an unparalleled global team, The Orchard partners with labels of all sizes to make their music and video available across hundreds of digital and physical retailers around the world.

At The Orchard, the focus is to provide a comfortable, social and engaging environment to encourage productivity and creativity.

• The Orchard is committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all persons regardless of age, disability, national origin, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, veteran or military status, marital and civil partnership/union status, alienage or citizenship status, creed, genetic information or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local law._