Business Manager, France

Description

That thing we do

We’re the Operating System for the Music Industry - a platform that pumps up the jam of every play.

We connect all players of the industry to amplify the value of music. Driven by machine learning and copyright expertise, our system pumps neutral data and authoritative knowledge to everyone along the chain. For those who make or use music, we allow them to plug in to our O.S. to ease operations, increase earnings, and get in sync with everyone else.

Job Summary

The position of Business Development Manager, France at BMAT involves managing and working with the BMAT France team, reporting to the BMAT CEO, and collaborating with all BMAT verticals and horizontals teams.

The main responsibilities include designing and implementing a growth strategy for BMAT France, handling sales activities, maintaining relationships with partners, managing the BMAT France team, and communicating with BMAT HQ teams in Barcelona.

The Business Manager France will be responsible for staffing the BMAT France team, maintaining a good working environment, and overseeing operational performance with the help of the France Ops Lead.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

Maintain and nurture excellent relationships with current network of French partners
Handle multiple tasks of very different nature every day
Generate and implement a growth plan for BMAT France aligned with the company’s OKRs.
Implement an ambitious local sales strategy with targets and KPIs
France branch budget planning and budget management
Coordinate the relationships between the local regional team and BMAT HQ teams
Rapidly understand technical processes and overall schema of technical situations
Ingenious and smart problem solving ability to propose solutions to complex situations

**Manage the BMAT France team**: day to day management, performance reviews, representing the team to BMAT HQ, hiring and structure training when necessary
Monitor competition and business opportunities
Use an entrepreneurial approach to take initiatives, tackle challenges and propose improvements
**Requirements**:
All About You

Strong decision-making and problem-solving skills
At ease with multitasking and parallelizing activities

**Good oral and written English skills**: the job requires to communicate clearly and daily with the BMAT executive, technical and sales team, in English.

**Excellent communication skills**: follow agreed priorities, exchange with clients and partners, conduct sales activities from prospect to signature
Excellent organizational skills and analytical skills
Detail-oriented
Team player who can work independently to identify problems, design and implement solutions
Minimum 6/8 years of experience in the music industry and/or audiovisual industry and/or copyright industry
Previous managerial experience is appreciated (2 to 10 people teams)
Driven and enthusiastic
Music Lover
Master 2 - parcours école d’ingénieur telecom or business school preferred

Languages

Fluency in French required

**Benefits**:
You Can Enjoy

Flexible working hours and location
Flat hierarchy
You can make the role your own and run your own development
Online language classes to improve your Spanish, Catalan or English
Online and onsite courses and music industry workshops run by inhouse experts
We’ll provide you with all equipment needed for you to be comfortable
Unlimited time off because we believe that you know best when you need to rest.

Who the FAQ are BMAT

BMAT started in 2005 when a group of engineers with a passion for music decided to spin-off from an audio research lab in Barcelona. We’re now over 160 people, spread across Barcelona, Buenos Aires, Lima, Rio de Janeiro, London, Paris, Nairobi, Oslo, Tel-Aviv, Singapore, Tokyo, Manila, Bangkok and Lagos.

We’re a team of pretty decent people who enjoy working with each other. We’re open-minded and well-traveled, coming from all parts of the world. We’ve got rappers, producers, cello players, DJs, and songwriters. The passion for music, the excitement for innovative technology and Barcelona as a backdrop has proven to make a good combination.

Join us from wherever you are on our mission to help make music live forever.

Diverse perspectives drive innovation, and innovation is kind of our thing. Our open-minded and flexible culture organically fosters this diversity. We've learnt that we thrive on learning from each other, so we don't just welcome but actively hire a range of open-minded people from all walks of life. Our team is made up of people with different backgrounds, perspectives, orientations, abilities, musical tastes, dress sense and time-zones - but we all have one common goal: Making the music world a better place. With equal opportunities for everyone, BMAT is a pretty nice place to work.