The General Manager (GM) of Kobalt Music Scandinavia is a pivotal leadership role responsible for driving the growth and success of Kobalt's music services business across the Scandinavian region (Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, and Iceland). The GM will lead a dynamic team to sign, develop, and service a diverse roster of songwriters, artists, and music publishers, while ensuring Kobalt's position as a leading innovator in the music industry.
WHAT WOULD YOU DO AS A GENERAL MANAGER?
- Develop and execute a comprehensive regional strategy that aligns with Kobalt's global vision and goals.
- Identify and capitalize on market trends and opportunities to expand Kobalt's presence and influence in Scandinavia
- Cultivate strong relationships with key industry stakeholders, including artists, songwriters, publishers, labels, collecting societies, and digital service providers
- Oversee, manage and drive business development within Scandinavia, sourcing and identifying creators, publishers and copyrights to sign
- Manage advance spend and investments in order to drive NPS
- Oversee the successful onboarding and integration of new clients.
- Drive creative collaboration and maximize the commercial potential of Kobalt's catalog
- Manage project priorities and resource investments
- Ensure a consistent and best-in-class customer-first mindset, maintaining and building trust with clients
- Build and manage a high-performing team, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and excellence
- Mentor and develop staff to reach their full potential
- Develop and oversee a marketing strategy for the Kobalt brand in the Scandinavian market
- Drive revenue growth in the Scandinavian markets
- Facilitate functional alignment between local team and company-wide teams to improve workflow, collaboration and efficiency
- Ensure proactive and effective interaction with Kobalt departments across all offices including Creative, Finance, Business Affairs, Publishing Operations, Writer & Publisher Relations and the People teams
- Achieve regional revenue targets and profitability goals.
- Provide regular reports on financial performance, key metrics, and market insights.
WHAT SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE ARE WE LOOKING FOR?
- Proven success in a Senior Leadership/Executive capacity
- Proven experience of having worked in a similar capacity
- Strong decision-making ability
- Excellent communication, collaboration, and delegation skills
- Proven ability to develop and achieve financial plans/goals
- Ability to motivate and lead employees, and hold them accountable
- Strong working knowledge of operational procedures
- Understanding of Music Publishing
- Understanding of Deal management
- Experience of driving regional revenue targets
- Experience managing budgeting and resources effectively
WHY CHOOSE US?
At Kobalt we’ve prioritised creators since we first started in 2000. Our music services and the technology we’ve built helps make the industry more fair and rewarding for artists. We’re trusted by amazing talent like Adam Tensta, Victor Leksell, Laleh, The Hives, LÉON and First Aid Kit, as well as songwriters like Max Martin. We thrive on creativity and are committed to championing diversity. We’re dedicated to inclusiveness and provide all the resources and benefits you need to grow your career and reach your potential. We offer competitive compensation packages, professional development opportunities, and an entrepreneurial culture that makes working here not just fun, but also rewarding.
Applicants must be eligible to work in Sweden. Kobalt is an equal opportunity employer encouraging diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, national origin, gender, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, or any other status or characteristic protected by law.
What We Do
Kobalt is one of the world’s largest, most innovative music companies, using technology to power creative freedom, transparency, ownership and control for artists, songwriters, publishers, and labels.
As file-sharing wreaked havoc on the record industry, Kobalt took a bet on digital music and won. Founded in 2000 by Swedish entrepreneur Willard Ahdritz, the startup built a platform to maximize efficiency, accuracy, and transparency across the billions of micro-payments collected in today’s highly complex digital world. As traditional music companies fought technology and contracted, Kobalt embraced it and grew, building an infrastructure and world-class creative team purposely designed to usher in the streaming era, along with a more fair, rewarding music business for creators.
Today, Kobalt has over 700 employees in 12 offices around the world, represents over 20,000 artists and songwriters, 600,000 songs and 600 publishing companies, and continues to push its disruptive philosophy and values into other areas of the music industry. Recent innovations like AWAL, an alternative to the traditional record label, and AMRA, the world’s first global digital performing rights organization, are both considered major agents of change in their respective businesses.
Kobalt is proud to work with some of the world’s greatest artists and songwriters, representing on average over 60% of the top 100 songs in both the US and UK. Kobalt clients include Childish Gambino, Marshmello, Beck, Wolf Alice, Max Martin, Bob Dylan, Ozuna, Tash Sultana, Paul McCartney and MPL Communications, Disney Music Group, and many more.
