Summary

At Apple, we are passionate about bringing phenomenal products, services, and experiences to our customers around the world. Music is part of Apple’s soul. Whether it’s classic jams or hot new tracks, shredding songs to bang your head to or tunes to move your hips to, music inspires us and drives us to do our best work every single day.

We are looking for an experienced and highly motivated Business Manager to further grow our Music business in India. The individual needs to be an outstanding team player, data proficient, and highly passionate about M&E. The ideal candidate will also have a thorough understanding of the market, partner, and content landscapes, with experience handling and growing subscription businesses.

Description

In this role, you will:

• Help define the strategy of our Music business in close collaboration with local & global management teams.
• Own end-to-end partnerships across the music ecosystem, from labels and platforms to tech and brand partners.
• Work closely with our Business Development teams to build, maintain, and expand business relationships with established and prospective partners, to drive availability, awareness, and engagement for our platform.
• Comfortable switching between big-picture thinking and day-to-day problem-solving.
• Be hands-on in partnership management. Track performance, resolve issues, and ensure commitments on both sides are delivered.
• Dive into data and details to assess what’s working, what’s not, and where to iterate.
• Collaborate across a wide range of cross-functional teams (including but not limited to editorial, operations, and marketing) to build momentum around key initiatives and see them through.
• Proactively look for areas of opportunity to deliver consumer-first initiatives to grow our Music business, while keeping a keen and curious eye on the market, the competition, and trends to build learnings.
  
  

Minimum Qualifications

• 8+ years of total experience, ideally across strategy consulting, banking, or PE / VC and the media & entertainment industry.
• Solid understanding of the music entertainment industry (specifically streaming), as well as key trends, players, and growth drivers.
• Experience working in a global capacity and partnering with international cross-functional teams and external ecosystem partners (e.g. telcos) to drive success.
• Outstanding analytical skills and the ability to clearly present actionable business insights to senior leadership.
• Excellent management capabilities: setting goals, driving performance (across multiple projects), and delivering against tight timelines.
• Proactive, result-oriented with outstanding communication and interpersonal / relationship building skills.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• An MBA or a Master's degree or equivalent experience is preferred.
• Passion for and understanding of the Apple brand and products.
• Proficiency in English and at least one Indian language is required. Additional languages are a plus.
• Some international travel may be required.