Operations Manager

Job title:

Operations Manager

Company

Six Shooters Records

Job description

Founded in 2000, Six Shooter is a full-service music company with label, publishing and artist management divisions. Home to multiple JUNO-award winners and globally celebrated artists for more than 20 years, Six Shooter pushes the boundaries of art and innovation with a critically acclaimed roster that defies classification. Our mission is to achieve the highest level of artistic excellence by delivering inspired marketing campaigns and rock-solid business services that will connect our artists with audiences around the world. Our close-knit, dynamic and passionate team is based primarily at our stunning multi-purpose office in Toronto. We believe in excellence, leadership, integrity, respect, creativity, passion, positivity, collaboration and community.

ARE YOU THE RIGHT PERSON? APPLY IF:

You love logistics, workback schedules and problem solving.

You’re efficient and output focused, resourceful is your middle name.

You take pride in being organized and timely and holding others to those standards.

RESPONSIBILITIES – PRODUCTION & DISTRIBUTION

• New release set up and maintenance for digital and physical releases with our distributor.
• Communicate with our distributor to activate and maintain song and video clearances, upload and sync lyrics and tag for all new releases and back catalog, submit IP copyright claims and corrections for incorrect listings. Greenlist / claim all upcoming content and coordinate with distributors
• Coordinate physical production of all CDs and Vinyl with artist managers, manufacturers and our distributor. This includes delivery and securing approval of test pressings.
• Maintain inventory management system for all Six Shooter and distributor stock, coordinate represses as required, order CD stock from distributors for artist tours and webstore needs and act as main point of contact for all physical unit purchase orders and shipments needed from distributor’s warehouses. Manage Six Shooter’s internal and external storage spaces with support from the Office & Fulfillment Manager.
• Develop a yearly Six Shooter merchandise and campaign plan that includes researching, suggesting and executing merchandise production and launch dates in coordination with the marketing department.
• Shipping: coordinate and execute all press mailouts, promo mailouts, couriers, and stock fulfillment with distributors.
• Research and apply for artist awards for label roster.
• Coordinate with both internal and external management associates for the fulfillment of offstage orders for artists’ tours. Proactively check in with artist management teams monthly especially in advance of tours, festival seasons, etc to ensure adequate inventory is on site to meet artists’ needs. Make sure associates are getting their orders submitted and shipped on schedule. Review orders in Monday system for accuracy for accounting purposes, adjust inventory as needed, and provide shipment tracking details if necessary.
• Assist with retrieving information for upcoming grants such as ship and sales history as well as providing assistance to multiple departments during grant completion.
• Indie retail marketing

• Continue indie retailer relationships with each Six Shooter release.
• Pitch for window displays, organize Six Shooter as a one stop, develop contests.
• Eblasts – including development of international.
• Coordinate asset creation + sending. Booking official programs. Budgeting, sourcing, executing promo items.
• Deliver and update marketing drivers within distributor portals
• Send out thank you cards for new releases
• Oversee password management for relevant department resources via One-Password

RESPONSIBILITIES – INTERNAL OPERATIONS

• Schedule, attend, and take notes at meetings, be the central communication hub for the department (internally & externally), and follow up with team members to ensure tasks are completed. Share weekly updates with external partners.
• Provide deadlines to marketing and art departments during pre-release period for artwork needed for physical releases, metadata needs, release schedules to ensure smooth releases.
• Research, build and maintain key marketing databases and customize targets for each release, as well as update new release data and maintain existing data in metadata software.
• Responsible for all release metadata management including:

• Metadata – Maintain and develop Six Shooter’s metadata library, organize all assets. Communicate final metadata to Finance for registrations + to Sync for pitching
• Metadata – collection of label copy for each release from all involved parties.
• Metadata – UPCs, ISRCs, catalogue number generate etc
• Archive masters, artwork, key press and promotional materials.
• Coordinate and execute all promotional mail-out duties for domestic & international radio, press, and industry mail-outs including updating databases, ordering materials (envelops, stamps, CDs), manufacturing CDs domestically and abroad.
• Coordinate newsletter distribution.
• Assist in event management such as procurement of materials for album release events, coordinating catering, event tech requirements, logistics of our annual staff conference, coordinating travel and accommodations for out of town staff, etc.
• Provide support to the marketing department when needed.
• Spearheading holiday initiatives such as the Jon Box Sox Drive, holiday card printing, updating holiday database.
• Participating in and attending Six Shooter shows and events.
• Organize and update Six Shooter’s membership database and awards tracking database. This includes subscribing to organization newsletters, maintain and update yearly awards submissions deadlines calendar and initiate submissions with VP Marketing including Grammy Awards JUNO Awards, Canadian Folk Music Awards, Western Canadian Music Awards, Libera Awards, AmericanaFest Awards, Canadian Country Music Awards and more.
• Maintain company digital calendar
• Maintain company website. Including overseeing URL hosting, updating content, banners, news items etc

JOB SPECS:

Position: Operations Manager

Reporting to: VP Marketing

Hours: Monday-Friday, 10am-6pm

Location: Toronto-based exclusively. This is a full-time in-office position 5 days/week.

Compensation: Annual Salary $51,500.00 plus health and dental benefits. 3 weeks paid vacation per year, plus the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day.

Application Deadline: Friday January 26, 2024

Start Date: Thursday February 15, 2024

No phone calls please.

We invite applications from all qualified candidates, especially from people who identify as racialized, Indigenous, differently abled, and persons of any sexual orientation or gender identity. Upon request, suitable accommodations are available under the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act for applicants invited to an interview.

Read our full land acknowledgement and our Code of Practice .

Expected salary

$51500 per year

Location

Ontario

Job date

Wed, 17 Jan 2024 08:36:30 GMT

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