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 Role
Assisting the Managers from around the label including departments such as Marketing, Creative, Streaming, A&R.
Budgeting in Uniport; including approving quotes, raising POs etc.
Liaising with artist managers and key contacts diligently and professionally at all times.
Briefing creatives, makers and agencies to make short-form content like song teasers and visualisers.
Collating and distributing campaign assets – e.g. artwork images, press releases, biogs and content.
Canvassing physical stock quantities for internal and external teams.
Any other reasonable duties as required by the marketing & A&R team.
Key Responsibilities
General administration (invoicing, filing, ordering stock & stationery/CD stock).
Taking comprehensive notes in meetings and sharing post meeting in a succinct, timely fashion.
Preparing / printing any documents required for weekly meetings.
Updating the gig guide document every week.
Managing content delivery from external parties.
Arranging staff and contact travel and getting travel reqs approved by finance.
Writing weekly artist campaign updates on behalf of the marketing manager.
Collating info from all departments and updating sales notes for physical releases.
Booking bikes / cabs / couriers.
Ticket ordering for gigs on behalf of the marketing team.
Sourcing and ordering any merchandise or special items.
Ordering any POS needed e.g. flyers, stickers, posters.
Skills and Experience Required
Must have
Strong attention to detail
Excellent admin & organisation skills
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to work round issues
Passionate about music
Nice to have
Pro-active
Self-motivated, hard-working and enthusiastic
Confident with the ability to keep calm under pressure
Flexible and able to prioritise own workload
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:
Amplify U - Work Experience
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.