Company: RSK Entertainment Ltd
Location: Newbury, UK
Salary: Competitive
Closing Date: Friday 28th March, 2025
Apply Now: info@rskentertainment.co.uk
Title: Label Manager
Status: Full-time
About Us
RSK Entertainment is a fully independent music sales, marketing and distribution company, offering a focused, effective and genuine alternative. Established in 2002 from what was Koch, the company has well over thirty years’ continuous experience in delivering the market in the UK and, via affiliates, Europe or globally.
We continue to champion the full breadth of music genres from rock and pop to classical and their associated entertainment products. With a broad and diverse record label and artist client base, we tailor our services from straight physical and digital distribution packages through to one-stop solutions and full project management. We have diversified to represent music orientated book publishers and merchandise lines.
Position Overview
We are looking for a self-starting, enthusiastic and experienced Label Manager to join our team on the rock and pop side of the company. Working closely with external partners and internal teams, you will be responsible for a roster of music labels and all matters relating to the release of their music and associated products physical and digitally.
You will be the primary day-to-day point of contact, liaising with sales, distribution and promotion, with input across release and campaign strategy and any other areas as required.
Key Responsibilities
- Release scheduling – working closely with labels and sales to ensure effective scheduling of releases
- Product formats – working closely with labels and sales to advise best release formatting
- Digital set-up – ensuring timely parts and assets submission to meet release deadlines
- Sales materials – creating/ collating sales materials for monthly sales cycle
- Product set-up – ensuring timely data set up with distribution and trade organisations
- New release – overseeing new release inception and campaign cycle from start to finish
- Retail marketing – working with sales and labels to generate optimum retail profile for new releases and back catalogue
- Price campaigns – demonstrating good market knowledge to advise pricing for new releases and back catalogue campaigns
- Back catalogue campaigns – working closely with labels to create ongoing calendar of campaign activity
- Stock management and ordering – ensuring optimum stock levels to fulfil demand while actively working to avoid overstocks
- Advise general marketing and campaign strategy across all label releases
- Reporting – formulation and creation of dedicated or bespoke analyses as required
About The Ideal Candidate
- Demonstrable experience working within a distribution, music label or management company
- A passion for a wide spectrum of music and strong working knowledge of the music landscape, industry and release cycle
- Thrive in a highly collaborative environment with strong communication and presentation skills
- Well organised and efficient with good analytical and problem-solving skills
- Adaptable within a dynamic changing environment with an interest in business development
- Adaptable and tech-savvy, being proficient with outlook, word, excel, pdf and Canva and keen to learn new tools and skills
If this opportunity excites and you believe you have the skills and drive we are looking for, please send a short covering letter stating current salary along with a copy of your CV to info@rskentertainment.co.uk by Friday 28th March 2025, quoting the reference LM2025 in the subject field.