Retail Account Manager

London - UK

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 18 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

At Warner Music Group were a global collective of music makers and music lovers tech innovators and inspired entrepreneurs game-changing creatives and passionate team members. Here we turn dreams into stardom and audiences into fans. We are guided by three core values that underpin everything we do across all our diverse businesses:

Curiosity: We do our best work when were immersing ourselves in culture and breaking through barriers. Curiosity is the driving force behind creativity and ingenuity. It fuels innovation and innovation is the key to our future.
Collaboration: Making music and bringing it to the world is all about the power of originality amplified by teamwork. A great idea like a great song travels globally. We ignite passions and build connections across our diverse community of artists songwriters partners and fans.
Commitment: We pursue excellence for our team and our talent. Everything in music starts with a leap into the unknown and were committed to keeping the faith acting with integrity and delivering on our promises.

WMG is home to a wide range of artists musicians and songwriters that fuel our success. That is why we are committed to creating a work environment that actively values appreciates and respects everyone. We encourage applications from people with a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences.

Consider a career at WMG and get the best of both worlds an innovative global music company that retains the creative spirit of a nimble independent.

Job Title: Retail Account Manager

A little bit about our team:

The Global Retail & Licensing team service the merchandise interests of Warner Music Groups (WMG) artists as well as Third Party artists and licenses. We live at the crossroads of music and fashion. The team is commercially focused and you will be working with the Senior Director of Retail to grow key retail accounts support the broader team and take the business to the next level.

Your role:

You will be working with the biggest retailers in the world such as ASOS Zara Bershka H&M and Primark - as well as best in class retail and licensing partners. You will be working with industry leading buyers designers manufacturers and brand managers in a very entrepreneurial environment. You will also be working with legal finance and supply chain as a key member of staff in a fast-growing area of the broader WMG business. At Warner Music you will not be working in a siloed environment you will be exposed to cutting edge conversations around innovation and new business as well as immersing yourself with the hottest developing developed and catalogue artists.

Here youll get to:

You will work in a commercial and entrepreneurial environment
You will be responsible for managing and driving a large part of the business units sales
You will prepare and lead regular in person and virtual presentations
You will present our business and artists to potential partners and brands. You will make direct sales into the accounts
You will send briefs to designers and work with brand managers and artist to get artist approvals
You will give regular sales updates to internal stake holders
You will liaise with various internal business units to gather information and brainstorm how to hit our KPIs
You will identify new business opportunities for artists management approval
You will prepare financial models for all aspects of your work
You will give regular sales forecasts and play a part in retail merchandise A&R

About you:

You can demonstrate experience working in an account manager or B2B sales role
You have experience working in the retail industry
You have above average analytical communication and Google Sheets skills
You will proficient in Google Slides or similar
You are passionate and self-motivated
You will be meticulous and organised
You enjoy hitting targets and are a goal orientated self starter

Wed love it if you also had:

Relationships with and contacts at high street retailers
Higher Education Degree Level or above
Previous experience working with licenses

As the home to 10K Projects Asylum Atlantic Music Group East West FFRR Fueled by Ramen Nonesuch Parlophone Rhino Roadrunner Sire Warner Records Warner Classics and several other of the worlds premier recording labels Warner Music Group champions emerging artists and global superstars alike. And our renowned publishing company Warner Chappell Music represents genre-spanning songwriters and producers through a catalog of more than one million copyrights worldwide. Warner Music Group is also home to ADA which supports the independent community as well as artist services division addition WMG counts film and television storytelling powerhouse Warner Music Entertainment among its many brands.

Together we are Warner Music Group: Independent Minds. Major Sound.

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Dont be discouraged if you dont hear from us right away. Were taking our time to review all resumes and to find the best people for WMG.

Thanks for your interest in working for love it here and think you will too.

This position requires a minimum of 4 days per week in the office. We value in-office collaboration which is essential for talent development and strong working relationships. #LI-Onsite

WMG is committed to inclusion and diversity in all aspects of our business. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and will evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race religion or belief age sex sexual orientation gender gender identity or gender reassignment marital or civil partnership status disability pregnancy childbirth or any other characteristic protected by law.

Required Experience:

Manager

Curiosity: We do our best work when were immersing ourselves in culture and breaking through barriers. Curiosity is the driving force behind creativity and ingenuity. It fuels innovation and innovation is the key to our future.
Collaboration: Making music and bringing it to the world is all about the power of originality amplified by teamwork. A great idea like a great song travels globally. We ignite passions and build connections across our diverse community of artists songwriters partners and fans.
Commitment: We pursue excellence for our team and our talent. Everything in music starts with a leap into the unknown and were committed to keeping the faith acting with integrity and delivering on our promises.