Project Manager, Team Lead

Numero Group team

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About the job
Title: Project Manager, Team Lead Status: Full-time Hours: 40/week, Monday - Friday, 9am-6pm Location: Chicago, IL Reports to: Managing Director
Company Summary: The Numero Group is an archival record label that curates compilations, reissues original albums, and creates album reconstructions from a variety of musical genres. Their products include deeply researched, expertly resuscitated and lavishly packaged box sets, playlists and ephemera of historic music from the 1950s-1990s. Founded in Chicago in 2003 by Rob Sevier and Ken Shipley, for nearly 20 years Numero has committed to unearthing precious lost sounds for new audiences, with an unparalleled ear for potential and spirited eye for detail.
With hundreds of titles in our diverse catalog of LPs, CDs, cassettes, 45s, 12-inch singles and playlists, each Numero production illuminates the often herculean efforts of individuals who sang, played, recorded and peddled their art to little fanfare in its day. Through intense research and wild ideas, these songs find new life in streaming, lovingly-packaged media and placement in film and television. By self-imposed law, everything assembled by Numero is a stunning new artifact of sound, image and word.
Position Summary: Numero Group seeks a Project Manager, Team Lead based at their home office in Chicago. The Project Manager, Team Lead will manage the project calendar and associated staff to make sure all projects are assigned and deadlines are met.
This role will work with the Managing Director, Creative Director and Head of A&R to plan and schedule projects, their associated campaigns and execution roll-out plans. These projects include physical and digital releases and all their necessary components including project budgets, timelines, staffing plans, deliverables and physical & digital assets management.
This role will also manage an assortment of project team staff members overseeing their day to day tasks, general career progression and their semi-annual performance review activities.
Responsibilities:
  • Manage team of Project Coordinators including hiring, training, workflows, performance management & reviews, etc.
  • Lead weekly staff meetings to review release calendar and other upcoming activities
  • Oversee macro release schedule: traffic control individual artist and catalog schedules, macro priorities, production demand, and impact of schedule volume on staff and freelancers
  • Oversee label-side catalog management and project’s team systems and workflows: assigning cat#s, managing metadata, OpenPlay, etc.
  • Work with Managing Director on strategy, systems, and best practices for pricing, discounts, margin philosophy at a format and project level
  • Provide oversight on Inventory Coordinator workflows for monitoring of hot titles, placing repress POs, priorities for production queue, etc.
  • Liaise with Secretly Distribution to provide centralized oversight on: new release campaigns, release schedule updates, communication and workflows between label team and SD
  • Oversee Project Manager and Project Coordinator workflows for operational and production concerns inc: metadata delivery, title set-up, inventory control, monitoring of priority titles, placing of POs, priorities for pressings queue, etc.
  • Manage and delegate needs of catalog/legacy artists who do not have active project teams assigned
  • Participate in all project budget calls to understand strategy and goals for each project
  • Monitor and manage departmental budgets, ensuring adherence to allocated funds

Requirements

The Ideal Candidate Demonstrates:
  • 3+ years music industry experience
  • Strong familiarity and passion for the independent music ecosystem
  • A passion for vinyl culture, especially catalog and archival releases, with direct experience supporting and marketing catalog music
  • Demonstrated staff management skills including, goal setting, performance management, developmental feedback
  • Experience in using Project Management software such as AirTable, Asana, Jira, etc.
  • An inclusive, approachable style in managing and developing staff
  • Strong communication and executive leadership skills, with an ability to report effectively to Upper Management
  • Highest level of work ethic, and ethics

Benefits & Perks

SG Services, Inc. Benefits
  • Paid holidays including end of the year closure
  • Paid Time Off policy
  • 401K with corporate matching
  • 12 weeks for parental leave after birth or adoption paid at 100% of salary
  • Volunteer Hours Matching Policy
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Health insurance
Chicago Salary Range: $55k

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Numero Group

**Overview** In the growing noise of the so-called reissue field, The Numero Group remains distinct in its quality: deeply researched, expertly resuscitated and lavishly packaged box sets, playlists and ephemera of historic music from the 1950s-1990s. Founded in Chicago in 2003 by Rob Sevier and Ken Shipley, for more than 15 years Numero has committed to unearthing precious lost sounds for new audiences, with an unparalleled ear for potential and spirited eye for detail. With hundreds of titles in our diverse catalog of LPs, CDs, cassettes, 45s, 12-inch singles and playlists, each Numero production illuminates the often herculean efforts of individuals who sang, played, recorded and peddled their art to little fanfare in its day. Through intense research and wild ideas, these songs find new life in streaming, lovingly-packaged media and placement in film and television. By self-imposed law, everything assembled by Numero is a stunning new artifact of sound, image and word. Numero also has a dedicated in-house team of licensing professionals here to meet the needs of your billion dollar Hollywood blockbuster or student film alike. 95% of our catalog is one-stop, with Numero administering the Dust Index and Songs of Numero Group publishing catalogs. Requests can be made through the form below.

Job Details

Posted on Jun 15

Chicago, IL, USA

Full time

Mid

$55K