Job Title: Licensing Partnership Manager
Industry: Media
Job Type: Full-time
Reporting to: Head of Licensing,
Africa
Location: Ghana
Gross Salary Range: Cedis 6,500 –
7,000
Our client Mdundo is a music service provider with users across
Africa.
They seek to hire an experienced Licensing Partnership Manager,
who will be responsible for Seeking out, negotiating and executing licensing
partnerships with content providers across Ghana, ensuring the catalogue is
available on Mdundo.
Job Objectives
· Seek out, negotiate, and
execute licensing partnerships with content providers across Ghana, ensuring
the catalogue is available on Mdundo.
· Establish and maintain
strong relationships with Ghana’s biggest music owners (distributors, record
labels, and artists).
· Seek out, negotiate, and
execute partnerships with alternative content providers across Ghana, ensuring
the catalogue is available on Mdundo.
Key Responsibilities
· Identify and onboard top
artists, record labels, and right holders across Ghana.
· Build and maintain
excellent relations with top content partners in Ghana.
· Stay ahead of and track
music trends & missing content in West Africa.
· Report on country
activities to the Head of Licensing, West Africa.
· Develop the Mdundo brand
within Ghana Music industry
· Active Participation in
industry associations, movements, initiatives, and activities that the role may
require.
Qualifications
· Have a Degree in
Business, Law, or Communication
· Have 5+ years of
experience in artist relations, music management, or similar fields.
· Have a thorough
understanding of music and the contemporary music scene in Ghana & West
Africa.
· Have a good
understanding of the digital music industry and a strong grasp of the music
industry’s past and future.
· Have Experience with
Industry Partnerships such as in Media, Labels, Distributors.
· Be a strategic thinker
and problem solver with the ability to transform goals into actionable plans.
· Have experience with
strategic planning and the ability to observe, examine, and refine systems and
processes and you are familiar with different strategic planning methods like
OKRs and KPIs.
· Be comfortable with
decision-making and exercising sound judgment when confronted with many varying
opinions.
· Excellent communicator
both internally & externally.
· Experience in project
management, sales process, proposal writing, and presentations.
· You are eager to learn
and grow in West Africa and to help others do the same.
· Have Experience in
Managing Events.
· Have Knowledge in Music
Publishing.
How to Apply
If you are up to the challenge and possess the necessary
qualification and experience; please send your CV only quoting the job title on
the email subject (Licensing Partnership Manager – Ghana) to
vacancies@corporatestaffing.co.ke by 22nd Nov 2022.