Director, Label Management and Business Development

Job Description

The Orchard, a subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment, is seeking a Director of Label Management and Business Development. This role is based in Hong Kong and involves managing relationships with distributed music clients across various genres. The Director will oversee retail relationships, optimize the local supply chain, and identify opportunities to grow The Orchard’s label partnerships in the region.

Responsibilities:

• Manage relationships with distributed music clients.
• Oversee high-level retail relationships.
• Manage, coordinate, and optimize the local supply chain.
• Explore and support opportunities to grow label partnerships.
• Manage and coordinate the Label Management and Operations team.
• Strategize and manage priority release campaign logistics.
• Manage local label release communication and logistics.
• Liaise with internal departments to meet client and retail partner needs.

Requirements:

• Extensive experience in the digital music space.
• Experience managing catalogs, frontline releases, and relationships.
• An existing network of industry contacts.
• Proven experience managing a team.
• Advanced organizational skills.
• Excellent communication skills.

The Orchard Offers:

• A vibrant global community.
• A modern office environment.
• Investment in professional growth and development.
• Opportunity to contribute to social impact, diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.
• Excellent range of benefits like private medical cover, a generous pension scheme, life assurance, income protection, plus loads of music industry perks.
• Time off over winter break.