As the **Manager, Label Management**, 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.
This role reports to Senior Manager, Label Management Mexico and is based out of the Mexico City office.
**What you'll do**:
- Serve as the main point of contact at The Orchard, and build relationships with distributed clients 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.
- Oversee 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, which may include physical.
- Distribute critical assets to global retail and marketing teams to ensure all cross-functional stakeholders are appraised of our labels' efforts to support releases.
- Oversee the complete life-cycle of audio and video products from ingestion to delivery, including seeing releases from label submission via our Workstation portal 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.
- 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 label management
- Proven track record of success in managing labels
- Extensive knowledge of the music industry, including trends, challenges, and opportunities
- 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 campaign
- Fluent in English and Spanish
**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.
Our Hybrid with Flexibility approach combines the flexibility of remote working with the benefits of in-person collaboration whenever we need to come together to do our best work.
Managers will partner with their teams and employees to establish work arrangements that meet the business, team, and individual needs.
- 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._