Senior Programme Manager/ Conference Curator for Berlin’s music business event 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, where collaboration is not merely about working together but creating new with modern goals and rallying around a new ethos.

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 format and live performances.

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

Aufgaben

The MW:M programme team brings the most relevant and inspiring people and topics to stage. Your role as a Senior Programme Manager will be to:

• Support the Head of Programme with curatorial and organizational work
• Develop ideas for new, innovative conference topics and formats
• Research, approach and convince the most renowned experts, progressive entrepreneurs and innovative artists that identify with the programme scheme
• Evaluate external speaker, topic and format ideas from the Call for Participation
• Discuss all internal and external proposals within the team and fill the programme with consistent, fresh and inspiring topics and formats,
• Implement and execute sessions together with event production, satellite, marketing team and help to communicate them to our attendees
• Support the implementation of the agreed programme ideas of external content partners such as sponsors in the conference,
• Assist the Programme Director with planning and preparing the operational execution of the conference programme, including the preparation of a strong agenda and detailed run downs,
• Select, approach and brief moderators for individual sessions as well as for entire stages.
• Take responsibility for looking after the speakers, moderators and programme partners, including (with support of dedicated Speaker Relation Managers)
• detailed discussions on the content and format of the individual sessions/talks,
• collecting the necessary information on people and their content for external communication (marketing) as specified,
• do organizational and technical briefings of speakers and moderators in preparation for the conference,
• personal speaker support before, during and after the event,
• possibly support speakers in planning their journey to the event,
• Communication with other project teams such as marketing, partner management/sponsoring, attendee support and technical event production, etc

Qualifikation

• You provide good knowledge in the European and international music, tech and creative industries and are well aware of its current changes and challenges.
• You are well connected within the music industries and are familiar with its relevant ecosystems and latest trends.
• You are passionate about creative markets and marketing, you think outside the box when it comes to developing interesting topics and formats for the conference and you go the extra mile for high profile stories and speakers.
• You are well organized, quality-oriented and able to react quickly to unpredicted changes.
• You are resilient and you can keep calm in a fast-pace and sometimes challenging event environment.
• You are a team player and an excellent communicator both internally within the team as well as externally towards speakers and other partners.
• You are in full command of English language and have business-fluent German skills both verbally and written.

Benefits

• A professional working environment,
• A highly qualified, experienced and motivated team,
• Short communication channels and flat hierarchies,
• Flexible working hours and locations,
• The freedom to creatively define and develop programme content and conference settings and to shape one of the most relevant music business events,
• A vast and vibrant network within the international music scene,New personal insights and a steep learning curve, guaranteed by a great team of music and event professionals.

Work load: approx. 400h

Duration: Asap until end of November 2026 with the option to extend for at least one additional year.

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 17th, 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 €17,600 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.