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Does your heart tap to the beat of dance music? Do you actually read the terms and conditions before you agree to anything? Are you a strong negotiator and ready to join the ranks of the largest independent dance music label in the world? If your answer to all of these questions is a firm “Yes”, you’ll fit right in here at Armada Music. And as faith would have it, we have just the job opening for you. We’re looking at you to become our next…
..Legal & Business Affairs Manager
Because of our growth, we are looking to hire a wonderworker with explicit legal experience for our Headquarters in Amsterdam. As a Legal & Business Affairs Manager, you will work independently on various contracts and take the lead in negotiations and are responsible for finalizing the agreements with the involved parties in all details required. These parties vary from artists, DJs, (co-)producers and vocalists to other record companies, license partners, management offices, music publishers, digital portals, contract administration and more. It is up to you to conclude the specific terms of agreements between contract parties in the contract and to administer accordingly.
YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES
You are responsible for negotiating and drawing up agreements in the broadest sense of the word;
You will correspond with our contract parties to ensure that contracts are signed and sent prior to the set deadlines;
You will archive all contracts and make sure it’s all entered into our royalty system correctly;
You will inform our finance department about the specific financial aspect of every deal;
You are (jointly) responsible for keeping the administration of our overviews and catalog up to date.

Requirements

…acquired a relevant degree in Law;
…has (preferably) four to five years of legal experience with (music/media) contracts;
…has mastered the legal language in word and script;
…has a flexible, proactive and meticulous work ethic;
…does not define a job as working from nine to five;
…preferably lives in or near Amsterdam.

Benefits & Perks

At Armada Music, you’ll be pursuing your passion on an international scale. Calling an inspiring and musical environment home, you’ll bump fists with a young and dynamic team of skilled coworkers. We also offer an appealing pension scheme for when we finally decide to grow up, and 25 days off per year to force you to miss us every once in a while. O, and we’ll pay you. There’s that too, of course.
Are you positively bursting with excitement? Please send us your resume and cover letter by using the application form on the Armada website. We’re looking forward to meeting you!

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Armada Music is the biggest independent dance music label in the world, founded in 2003 by Armin van Buuren, Maykel Piron and David Lewis (AR-MA-DA). A six-time winner of the IDMA for ‘Best Global Label’, Armada Music boasts the globe’s biggest dance music catalog of over 40.000 titles and a mouth-watering artist roster. Promoting dance music all over the world from its offices in Amsterdam (HQ), New York and London, Armada Music represents and cultivates the creative exploits of some of the biggest players in the electronic music game, including Andrew Rayel, Armin van Buuren, ARTY, Brando, Cat Dealers, Ferry Corsten, Loud Luxury, Morgan Page, Sunnery James & Ryan Marciano and Tensnake. Through this star-studded dance music army, Armada Music collects over 500 million streams per month, secures weekly airplay on the biggest nation-wide broadcasting stations (such as BBC Radio 1 and Sirius XM), and frequents the top spots of the U.S. Mediabase Dance Airplay charts. Continually bringing out the best in its artists has led to various high-magnitude achievements, including Armin van Buuren’s Grammy nomination for ‘This Is What It Feels Like’, Lost Frequencies’ Diamond Award for exceeding the mark of one billion streams on Spotify and the huge success of Loud Luxury and Brando in the U.S. and beyond. A global brand outfitted with the esteemed ‘Armada Invites’ events, state-of-the-art, in-office facilities (The Club!, the radio studio and two production studios), producer platform Armada University and over 1 million followers across its biggest playlists, Armada Music can look back on many wondrous years while pulling out all the stops to ensure plenty more.

Job Details

Posted on Jun 11

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

Full time

Mid