Sr. Content Acquisition Mgr, Music Licensing

Job Description

Job summary
Imagine shaping how millions of customers discover and engage with digital music and audio, leveraging the resources of a Fortune-500 company within the atmosphere of a start-up. Love collaborating with a wide range of internal and external partners to drive successful partnerships? If so, come and build the future of music and audio with us.

We are looking for a strategic and analytical Sr. Content Acquisition Manager to join the Amazon Music team. Based in London, the ideal candidate will have experience negotiating complex licence agreements with music publishers and collection societies. This externally facing role will be responsible for securing new content and additional rights, proactively performing analytic deep dives across a variety of performance indicators and providing strategic support to enable new business initiatives. The role requires a data-driven critical thinker who has an attention to detail, an ability to juggle multiple priorities and thrives in a fast-paced, international setting that is constantly evolving. In addition, the candidate will be expected to leverage strong negotiating and interpersonal skills in order to partner effectively across internal divisions and with external partners.

Key job responsibilities
• Build and manage relationships with external partners, including music publishers and collection societies;
• Negotiate licence agreements with partners and expand existing agreements as needed;
• Perform analysis to quantify the impact of royalty models, and other terms that are negotiated with rightsholders
• Collaborate with the legal team to review contractual terms and conditions relating to content licensing agreements
• Partner with internal Finance/Content Analytics teams to help continuously improve the internal tools, processes and models that are used to evaluate our deal terms across service tiers and territories
• Collaborate with the Publishing Operations team to ensure contractual reporting and administration obligations are met
• Monitor the competitive landscape to help inform Amazon Music's strategic priorities and expansion opportunities

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
• 7+ years in an account management, licensing or business development role in digital music or media, with a good understanding of music publishing rights

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
• Bachelor's degree required
• Analytical and quantitative skills; ability to use hard data and metrics to back up assumptions
• Business judgment and demonstrated ability to think and act both strategically and tactically
• Experience in writing detailed and data-supported documents
• Experience working with product and tech teams
• Ability to work effectively across internal and external organizations

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