Job Description

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.

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