Concord is the independent, worldwide leader in the development, management and acquisition of sound recordings, music publishing and theatrical performance rights and narrative content, representing more than 1 million songs, composed works, plays, musicals and active recordings.
Headquartered in Nashville with additional offices in Berlin, London, Los Angeles, Melbourne, Miami and New York and staff in Auckland, Sydney, Toronto and Tokyo, Concord’s repertoire is licensed in virtually every country and territory worldwide.
Concord Label Group is comprised of multiple active labels whose artist rosters each span many musical genres. The frontline labels consist of wholly owned Concord/Rounder, Concord Jazz, Fantasy Records, Fearless Records, and KIDZ BOP, with Easy Eye Sound and Loma Vista Recordings as Joint Ventures.
The company’s historical labels are managed by its Craft Recordings team, and include such storied imprints as Fania, Independiente, Milestone, Musart, Nitro, Pablo, Prestige, Riverside, Savoy, Specialty, Stax, Telarc, Varèse Sarabande, Vee-Jay and Wind-up. Concord’s master recording portfolio contains more than 12,000 active albums and includes no less than 273 GRAMMY® winners (representing approximately 6.3% of all the GRAMMYs® ever awarded) and over 400 gold, platinum, multi-platinum and diamond RIAA certifications across 215 titles.
Concord Label Group UK are responsible for building the brands of Concord’s labels and catalogue within the UK market, alongside our label and distribution partners, maximising sales potential and career development within the UK for Concord Artists and catalogue.
Responsibilities
Position Purpose: The Sync Marketing Coordinator is responsible for assisting the Concord Label Group UK Sync team in its day-to-day operation. Works under moderate supervision.
What you’ll do:
- Departmental Support – organisational functions and responsibilities to support the VP, Sync Marketing
- Marketing – preparing and delivering marketing materials for the UK sync team for the purpose of mailouts, events and presentations
- Contacts/Event Management – help to maintain the department’s vital list of client contact information for digital music distribution, as well as handling show invites and RSVPs for all artist shows in the European market
Reports – using internal pitching and analytical platforms to assist with trend analysis and the completion of scheduled reports - Licensing Support – tracking active projects and ensuring all licensing resources are up to date
Pitching – assisting and preparing client pitches, and researching into new productions
Outline of Specific Functions
Marketing
- Creation and mailing of departmental and artist/label updates through Mailchimp, including project highlights, events, awards and new releases
- Creation of Powerpoint/Keynote documents for presentation to clients
- Contributing and strategising new ideas in which to market the Company and our artists/labels to clients
- Maintain sync department social media and other accounts
Contacts/Event Management
- Responsible for ensuring client contact information is up to date
- Responsible for all guestlists in all territories where the department has clients
Reports - Liaising with the licensing department to collate scheduled reports on quoted and confirmed
- Using DISCO to analyse department pitching efforts
- Analysis of impact of sync placements
- Analysis of current trends in the music industry and other industries serviced by the sync department
- Creating weekly sync highlight reports
Licensing Support
- Tracking and monitoring active projects
- Tracking airdates of all placements and communicating with artists/labels
- Ensuring the registration of copyrights at relevant Performance Rights Organisations (PROs)
Pitching
- Assisting and preparing client pitches
- Research into new productions
General
- Work cooperatively with the other employees at the Company as well as outside companies
- Anticipate the needs and unspecified tasks that may be needed to enhance the work by the Senior Director and the Company
- Creative assistance in licensing projects
- Uploading and organising music on DISCO
- Represent the sync department at shows and events to network and attend with music supervisors and clients
Qualifications
What you’ll need:
- A minimum of 1-2 years of experience in a similar position in the music industry
- Passionate about a wide-range of music and technology/digital trends
- Excellent communication skills (both written and verbal) and a good telephone manner
- Excellent general computer skills; specific proficiency with Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel, and knowledge of PowerPoint
- Comfortable solving problems independently as well as part of a team, prioritizing heavy workloads, working under pressure and multitasking
- Ability to prioritise to tight deadlines with a strong sense of initiative and a careful attention to detail
- A professional, pleasant and friendly demeanor
- Good judgment, particularly with respect to confidential matters
- General agreement and acceptance of the Company’s core values
- Basic asset creation a plus (Photoshop)
*This is a hybrid role requiring 3 days minimum on-site.
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, sex as required by law. We believe that diversity, inclusion and equity is paramount for the creation of music, theatre and film that celebrates and empowers all cultures.
Application Details
We actively encourage applicants from a wide variety of backgrounds and experience. Full and ongoing training will be an integral part of the role.
Tell us in your own words: What can you bring to Concord’s Sync Team? What challenges are you looking for in a position? Please submit your CV and answers to these questions in your covering letter stating why you believe you will be suitable for this position.
Closing date: 28 April 2023
Location: WC2A 2HB
