We are currently looking for a dynamic new personality to join our London-based team. This role is ideal for an individual with 1-2 years’ experience at a record label, music promotions company, marketing agency or similar, although we are open to any candidate with the required skillset for the role.
About Renegade
We are the UK’s market-leading combined retail, student and club promotions company, working primarily across the leisure, hospitality and retail sectors. The business celebrates its’ 25th birthday in 2024. With an unrivalled reputation across the music industry, Renegade is the go-to company for all the major labels and key indies for promotion of new releases.
The company works with both brand new and established artists across a wide variety of genres. We are generally involved in the promotion of circa 50% of the UK Top 40 singles at any one time, with a roster boasting some of the world’s most exciting talent. Other business interests within the company include artist management, brand music policy consultancy and music branding partnerships. We are also about to launch a brand new boutique residential recording studio in Oxfordshire.
The role
- Identifying and pitching for relevant new releases, and bringing new business into the company from existing and new contacts across the music industry
- Managing promotional campaigns from start to finish for a range of pop/dance, indie/rock and rap artists
- Advising clients on promotional strategy and identifying targets across our areas
- Regularly reporting to our clients on the progress of their campaigns
- Work with record labels and artists’ wider teams to ideate and organise promotional activations
- Pro-actively arranging interviews, reviews and other activities with student media
- Manage strong relationships with all clients including record labels, managers and independent artists
- Liaising with record companies to collect assets for promotional campaigns
- Servicing new music to our extensive database of contacts via our online music distribution platform, InFlyte
- Promoting releases to retail/brand music programmers, DJs, student media contacts and other tastemakers
- Attending gigs, events and industry conferences in the UK and internationally.
You will
- Live, breathe and work music, and have strong knowledge across multiple genres, particular pop/dance, indie/rock and rap.
- Have already built a strong network of contacts across the music industry
- Be highly organised with excellent attention to detail in across all areas of your work
- Be confident and knowledgeable in meetings with clients and contacts
- Have a positive ‘can do, will do’ attitude and a burning ambition to advance your own career, as well as help us take our business to the next level
- Have a genuine interest in the areas we cover, with the ability to learn quickly and work to monthly targets
- Be friendly and adaptable with great communication skills and the ability to fit in to our small, sociable team
- Have a good knowledge of software packages (we use Microsoft Office and Google Drive) and wide social media insight
- Experience in Adobe, Squarespace and other relevant software also an advantage
What we offer
- A flexible working culture with 3 days based at Soho Works sites and 2 days working from home
- Working as part of a small, friendly and dynamic team
- Opportunity to work and learn across a wide range of campaigns with globally successful artists
- Membership to Soho Works and Soho House
- Guestlist to various shows and live events
- UK and international travel to key industry events
Salary is negotiable and commensurate with experience and skills, with discretionary performance-related and seasonal bonuses.
General hours of work are 9.30am to 6pm Monday to Friday.
Please email your CV and covering letter to mark@renegademusic.co.uk
