Marketing Manager for Berlin’s international music business conference and showcase festival Most Wanted: Music (freelance)

Most Wanted: Music (MW:M) is the most important music business conference in Berlin and a rising European hotspot event for music and creative industry professionals worldwide. It is run by the Berlin Music Commission, the music industry network of Berlin.

Most Wanted: Music aims to start building the music and creative industries of tomorrow.

MW:M’s key objectives are: enabling practical know-how transfer, fostering networking and exchange and inspiring new ideas and business models.

Offering a wide range of inspiring keynotes, interviews and debates, hands-on workshops and matchmaking events, MW:M covers the most current and relevant questions of today’s music, tech and creative industries in order to bring direct value to creators and music businesses. The programme includes interactive talks, interviews and workshops with experts and artists from all over the world, experimental networking formats and live performances.

The conference called MW:M Convention is accompanied by MW:M Live, Berlin’s international showcase event, and the LISTEN TO BERLIN: AWARDS, the awards for remarkable achievements in the Berlin music scene.

The MW:M marketing team communicates the inspiring programme and the business value of Most Wanted: Music to the outside world. It gains attention and attracts attendees, viewers and partners to participate in the event.

Your role as a Marketing Manager will be to:

• Report to Head of Marketing
• Execute and monitor creative marketing, PR and social media campaigns.
• Plan and create diverse media content for all communication and advertising purposes,
• Run and monitor digital and analogue marketing, PR and social media marketing campaigns,
• Work closely with other teams such as programme, partnerships and event management,

• You have at least 3 years of marketing experience.
• You are passionate about creative markets and marketing.
• You provide basic knowledge in the music, tech and creative industries and are aware of its current changes and challenges.
• You have expertise in all relevant marketing areas and you are able to think across channels.
• You think outside the box when it comes to developing new stories around our interesting speakers, topics and event formats.
• You go the extra mile to get prominent placements in relevant media outlets.
• You are result oriented and don’t get lost in the details of your daily operational tasks.
• You have a DIY mentality, you are hands-on and you don’t mind to keep on following up until you received an appropriate reaction to your requests.
• You excel in being a sales person.
• You are well organized, quality-oriented and able to react quickly to unpredicted changes.
• You can keep calm in a fast-pace and sometimes stressful event environment.
• You are a team player and an excellent communicator both internally within the team as well as externally towards media, speakers, sponsors and other partners.
• You are in full command of German language and have business-fluent English skills.

Would be a plus:

• You have basic event management experience and you know the processes and requirements of B2B events and its target groups.
• You are experienced with digital content have strong personal contacts to music and music business related media outlets.

• A professional working environment,
• A highly qualified, experienced and motivated team,
• Short communication channels and flat hierarchies.
• Flexible working hours and locations,
• A vast and vibrant network within the international music scene,You will learn how to realize highly innovative events,

Work load: approx. 400 working hours

Duration: ASAP until December 2026.

Payment: According to your personal conditions and qualification on a freelance basis.

Please send your application including CV, references and a complete proposal that includes your rate expectations by April 20th, 2026 to: vergabestelle (at) berlin-music-commission .de

This contract is part of a publicly funded project with limited financial resources. The maximum contract value is €16,000 net per annual project period. The contracting authority reserves the right to cancel the tender if the most economically advantageous offer exceeds this amount.

Berlin Music Commission expressly welcomes applications from people with migration backgrounds, women/non-cis-male applicants and other underrepresented groups. Applicants with disabilities will be given preference if equally qualified.