General Manager, Slam Dunk Retail

Description

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.