Job Description
Music is Universal
It’s the passionate and dedicated team at Universal Music who help make us the world’s leading music company. From A&R to finance, legal to digital, sales to marketing, Universal Music is the place to grow and develop your career within a truly commercial and innovative business that leads in everything it does.
Everyone is welcome to apply for our roles, and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment because of gender, race, disability, sexual orientation, religion, belief, age, marital status, background, pregnancy, or caring responsibilities. We also recognise the importance of diversity of thought within our teams and are fully committed to embracing the talents of people with autism, dyslexia, ADHD, and other forms of neurocognitive variation.
We will always seek to make appropriate adjustments to recruitment, workplaces, and work processes to be fully inclusive to people with different needs and working styles. If you need us to make any reasonable adjustments for you from application onwards, including alternatives to the online form or to disclose a neurocognitive condition, please email UniversalMusicCareers@umusic.com.
The A Side: A Day in The Life
A newly created role serving two labels, Decca & Fontana. As part of the commercial division, the Data Analyst role will primarily be responsible for pulling, analysing, interpreting, and communicating commercial and consumption data. This data analysis will give the label teams valuable insights and inform strategy. Other areas of focus will include audience data and insight and A&R analysis, helping our label teams understand fan behaviour and look for new artist signings.
Since 1929, DECCA has been the home of the world’s greatest musicians. Working with globally successful artists like Max Richter and Andrea Bocelli, to groundbreaking experimental artists in the ambient instrumental space such as Ólafur Arnalds and LUXE, bringing the music of these artists to a global audience is all in a day’s work. The label has always been at the forefront of classical music artistic excellence, musical innovation and creative entrepreneurship. Home to prominent classical icons and contemporary classical favourites including Yunchan Lim, Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Alexandra Whittingham, Klaus Makela, Pavarotti, Ashkenazy and Solti, and more.
Fontana Records, the legendary label, has been home to some of the most influential recordings in jazz, pop and alternative music. Recently revived under Universal Music UK, Fontana continues its legacy as a home for genre-defining artists across jazz, folk, blues, alternative and soul. Fontana’s roster includes Jacob Collier, Aurora, Jeff Goldblum, Jordan Rakei, Victor Ray, The Teskey Brothers and Melody Gardot, alongside international acts from Blue Note, Verve and Impulse. As Fontana returns to the UK, it embarks on a new chapter celebrating experimentation, discovery and artistry. This is an exciting opportunity to join from the start, helping to shape the next chapter of an iconic label.
The B Side: Skills & Experience
Be Analytical
Be Operational
Be Collaborative
Personal specification
Just So You Know…
The company presents this job description as a guide to the major areas and duties for which the jobholder is accountable. However, the business operates in an environment that demands change and the jobholder's specific responsibilities and activities will vary and develop. Therefore, the job description should be seen as indicative and not as a permanent, definitive, and exhaustive statement.
Job Category:
Marketing, Streaming & Digital Media
We are UMG, the Universal Music Group.
We are the world’s leading music company.
In everything we do, we are committed to artistry, innovation and entrepreneurship.
We own and operate a broad array of businesses engaged in recorded music, music publishing, merchandising, and audiovisual content in more than 60 countries.
We identify and develop recording artists and songwriters, and we produce, distribute and promote the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful music to delight and entertain fans around the world.
Our vast catalog of recordings and songs stretches back over a century and comprises the largest, most diverse and culturally rich collection of music ever assembled.
As digital technology refashions the world, our unmatched commitment to lead in developing new services, platforms and business models for the delivery of music and related content empowers innovators and allows new commercial and artistic opportunities to flourish.
Knowing that music, a powerful force for good in the world, is unique in its ability to inspire people and bring them together, we work with our artists and employees to serve our communities.
We are the home for music’s greatest artists, innovators and entrepreneurs.
Together, we are UMG, the Universal Music Group.