Innovation Manager

**Location : London / Remote**

Part of the broader Member Services team, and reporting into the Director of Insight, the Innovation Manager will be responsible for being an expert in tech developments as they concern the music industry, and act as a voice for the Our client when it comesto innovation.

The Innovation Manager will manage and evolve our client’s Music & Tech Springboard Programme, nurturing music tech start-ups, as well as growing Our client’s footprint within the tech start-up community and wider ecosystem. Additionally, this team memberwill work collaboratively within the wider Member Services function as dictated by company priorities.

**Key responsibilities**:

- Research & be up to date with latest developments in tech and understand how they impact the music sector, and Our client’s label members specifically
- Be a voice for innovation within the company: brief the senior leadership team on noteworthy trends and developments, and, where appropriate, suggest initiatives around them
- Work with the wider Research & Insight team on curating company owned events (e.g. Insight Sessions): be proactive in identifying topics of interest to our community, identify key speakers and expert contributors, help manage relationships with third partyprovider to deliver successful events that position as thought leaders
- Manage & evolve The Music & Tech Springboard Programme - our client’s initiative bringing tech start-ups and the music industry closer together
- Organise events to connect the start-ups with Our clients membership & associates
- Work with the Director of Membership & International on embedding music-tech related opportunities into other membership events, regional & international events - as well as provide other support as necessary
- Be an advocate for Our client and the work of its members in the music tech space in the wider ecosystem: explore & identify opportunities to curate, host and speak on panels, be embedded in the global tech start-up scene, network
- Identify opportunities for growth: participate in events, accelerators, incubators to identify promising tech start-ups Our client can support, that will bring value to label members
- Work with the Communications & Public Affairs teams to get the message out about the work the Our client is doing in the innovation space
- Work with the Director of Digital and his team on identifying innovation-related opportunities for the Awards, Mercury Prize
- Pitch in more broadly where appropriate: use you expertise (whether directly related to innovation or broader) to help out colleagues when needed, as well as work collaboratively on delivering new ideas and projects - whether originated by you or colleagues
- as dictated by the company’s priorities at any given time

Skill Requirements (mandatory):

- 2-5 years in the music industry in a digital/ partnerships/ events/ marketing role, or as an entrepreneur
- Alternatively, 2-5 years operating in and around the tech industry, with a focus on media (including music or film & TV or gaming)
- A good understanding of the big picture when it comes to the music industry, and the role record labels play
- A good understanding of tech trends as they impact the music industry

Skill Requirements (desirable):

- Experience in building and managing communities
- Experience in running events online and in-person
- Experience in crafting compelling presentations and speaking in front of key stakeholders, as well as broader audiences
- Experience in business development

You must be:

- Passionate about music, the music industry & tech
- Personable, principled and with a strong sense of integrity.
- Organised, confident and results-driven working to high standards
- Committed to developing your skills and talents and with the potential to grow into the role and in due course into senior leadership positions.
- A keen communicator and relationship builder - internally, among members and externally.
- Imaginative in developing creative solutions, but with the energy and tenacity to implement any new ideas and thinking as part of overall strategy.
- Sensitive at all times to your position in the ecosystem, representing your employer and the industry in which it operates
- A confident speaker & presenter
- A comfortable networker and 'door-opener’

**About the Our client**

Our client champions the UK’s recorded music community, safeguarding the rights of its members and of the artists, performers and label members of collecting body PPL. our client;s membership consists of well over 500 independent labels and the UK’s three'majors’ - Universal Music UK, Sony Music Entertainment UK and Warner Music UK. Its total membership taken together accounts for around 85 per cent of legitimate domestic music consumption and 1 in 10 streams around the world.

Our client promotes British music at home and overseas through its trade missions, the Music Exports Growth Scheme and Awards, which it owns and organises. It administers The Certified Platinum, Gold and Silver Awards Programme, co-owns the Official ChartsCompany with ERA, and is home to The Mercury Prize. Our client encourages and supports innovation and technology through its Music & Tech Springboard Programme, and additionally provides insights, training and networking with its extensive free masterclasses,networking events, Insight Sessions and reports alongside its communications and public affairs work.

our client is committed to equality and inclusion. In support of this our client is working closely with its members and industry partners, as well as its Equality and Justice Advisory Group (EJAG). It aims to educate, inspire and help enact change throughits Equality Training Programme and Equality Sessions, as well as its Membership Inclusion Programme. Our client community engagement, focussed on education & wellbeing through the power of music, is directed through The Trust.