VP, Marketing (London)

Concord is the world’s leading independent music company, supporting more than 125,000 artists and songwriters whose works are licensed, marketed, and performed globally. Concord's growing catalog includes 1.3 million songs, compositions, sound recordings, films, plays, and musicals.

Concord Label Group UK is responsible for building the brands of Concord’s labels and catalogue within the UK market, maximising sales potential and career development for Concord Artists.

As the VP, Marketing, you will be responsible for managing the marketing team that develops and executes marketing plans for Concord’s recording artists in the UK. This role includes leading strategy and processes, initiating marketing plans, and ensuring the development of Concord’s label brands. You will also lead and implement the team’s marketing and budgetary processes, involving both team leadership and hands-on campaign marketing.

Responsibilities

• Manage the UK-based marketing team members.
• Line manage a shared global administration role based in London.
• Conceive and implement industry-leading marketing campaigns and strategies for Concord artists, brands, and labels.
• Communicate and synchronize campaigns with International and US Label marketing teams.
• Create best practice marketing processes for budgeting campaigns, holding assets, executing, and communication.
• Manage UK team marketing budget submissions.
• Adapt US assets and commission new creative content across campaigns where necessary.
• Work with distributor sales teams on marketing partnerships in both physical and digital retail spaces.
• Source and manage external promo teams for campaigns.
• Work closely with internal teams, commercial, digital, Sync, International, as well as external partners.
• Oversee Marketing team’s efforts to formulate and execute best-in-class UK marketing plans, setting achievable targets and measuring successes.
• Collaborate with Digital Marketing team to execute best-in-class advertising campaigns, build audience growth, and social media strategies to grow fanbases and maximise engagement.
• Analyse performance of releases and report regular updates about campaigns to Artist teams and colleagues.
• Grow the team’s creative network by introducing the team to third-party collaborators and representing Concord Label Group at public events.
• Perform all duties inherent in a managerial role.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in marketing, business, music, or other related discipline, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Minimum 10-12+ years’ experience in a UK music marketing role.
• A strong working knowledge of all facets of the music industry.
• Ability to operate in a highly collaborative manner and work well under pressure.
• Established relations with marketing and advertising agencies and publicists.
• Proven track record of developing artists in the UK.
• Proven track record of delivering successful UK marketing campaigns.
• Creative and innovative outlook.
• Experience working with labels, artists, and managers.
• Ability to work across multiple projects of different sizes and development.
• Strong organisational and project management skills.
• Ability to travel to the US and Europe multiple times a year.

At Concord, we offer competitive salary, private medical and dental insurance, generous time off, charity match, paid time off for volunteering, and a culture committed to supporting everyone’s growth and development.

Concord is an equal opportunity employer. We employ, train, compensate, and promote regardless of age, gender assignment, marital status, pregnancy, disability, race, religion, or sex as required by law. We believe that diversity, inclusion, and equity are paramount for the creation of music, theatre, and film that celebrates and empowers all cultures.