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Job Title: General Manager, Slam Dunk Retail

Location: Leeds 

Contract: Full Time (35 hours per week), permanent.

Salary: DOE with Bonus Scheme


About Slam Dunk and Futuresound Group

 

Slam Dunk is part of Futuresound Group; one of the UK’s longest running independent music companies that operates venues, music festivals, live music, record labels, artist management, music publishing and the UK’s largest vinyl pressing plant. 

 

Founded in 2001, the Slam Dunk brand originated as a club night held at The Cockpit in Leeds, championing the pop-punk, emo, punk rock, ska punk, hardcore, and metalcore music scenes. Since its inception, Slam Dunk has grown to promote over 200 gigs annually across the UK, has become the country’s biggest independent rock festival—hosted across two greenfield sites in Leeds and Hatfield—and most recently expanded into festivals across European markets.

About the Role
 

The candidate would take on a significant project to develop our existing online retail offer slamdunk.world from a festival merch site to a year-round rock fashion brand in it’s own right.  

It's a role for someone commercially sharp and creatively driven who can manage a fast-moving festival merchandise operation alongside the development of a longer-term retail operation with ambitions to scale internationally. 
 

The successful candidate will be working with the support and resources of the wider Futuresound Group team to identify retail opportunities across the group as the role develops. 
 

Responsibilities

Brand and product development

  • Build and deliver the seasonal product roadmap across festival merchandise, evergreen clothing ranges, accessories and music formats

  • Originate range concepts and creative direction, briefing and managing third-party designers to bring them to life

  • Identify and negotiate third-party brand partnerships, collaborations and licensed product opportunities
     

E-commerce and trading

  • Run the day-to-day management and ongoing development of the Shopify store, including site experience, merchandising, product content and conversion performance

  • Use customer and sales data to inform range planning, buying decisions and pricing

  • Create a process for managing customer service enquiries using existing platforms 
     

Supply chain and operations

  • Manage relationships with merchandise suppliers, garment manufacturers, print partners and fulfilment providers, negotiating terms and holding partners to quality and delivery standards

  • Manage stock levels and ordering with suppliers 
     

Live and festival retail

  • Lead the merchandise operation at Slam Dunk Festival working with the festival operations team on delivery
     

Experience Required

Essential

  • An understanding and experience of using E-Commerce platforms

  • A track record of developing product ranges from concept to delivery, working with designers and manufacturers

  • Experience managing supplier relationships at various levels of scale

  • Knowledge of and enthusiasm for the alternative music scene and its audience
     

Desirable

  • Apparel, streetwear or fashion retail background, particularly in buying or product development

  • Experience of live event or pop-up retail

  • Experience managing third party  designers or artists

  • Experience of music merchandise licensing or artist product 

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To apply please send your CV and cover letter to jobs@slamdunkmusic.com

Closing Date: Friday 18th September

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