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
UMR is the label responsible for ensuring the continued success of Universal Music Group’s world class catalogue of recordings. We work with some of the most successful, innovative, timeless and respected artists of all time, continuing to grow their audiences across multiple entry points and platforms and keep the world listening.
From The Beatles to Florence + The Machine, Bob Marley to Sam Smith, Elton John to Lana Del Rey, Metallica to the soundtracks of Disney, UMR’s vision is to use our collective passion and knowledge to help people find their new favourite song, whether it is 3 years days or 3 decades old.
Our purpose is to continually spark a connection and reconnection with music that matters, drawing on new content, new platforms and new moments. We give music the chance to reconnect with new and unexpected audiences through great storytelling regardless of generation and genre.
As a core member of the Commercial team, you’ll be responsible for ensuring exposure of UMG repertoire is maximized across all DSPs, with particular emphasis on partner relations, release optimization and responsive reporting from internal & external systems. You'll work closely with the Marketing, Audience Development, Label Operations, Data Insights and streaming teams in front line label divisions.
The B Side: Skills & Experience
Be Organised
Responsibility for pitching UMR releases to digital streaming partners including Spotify, Apple, Amazon, YouTube
Ensure visibility of UMR repertoire is maximized with DSPs both on and off platform
Keep DSPs across artist promo updates & resurgence track streaming uplift
Work closely with US & International teams to maximize exposure outside the UK
Represent the UMR streaming team in both internal and external meetings with mgmt.
Work with Label Ops & A&R to ensure the digital release schedule is up to date
Assist in building, nurturing & maintaining UMRs relationship with all DSPs
Be Creative
Collaborate closely with the wider marketing, label & promo teams to build best-in-class artist campaigns
Understand each platform’s ecosystem, keeping the wider label teams updated with all technical developments & promotional opportunities for UMR artists
Ensure all artist profiles across DSPs are optimised
Compile artist presentation decks for both regular & ad hoc meetings with partners
Look for cross-promotional opportunities to drive our e-comm business
Be Analytical
Report on a variety of campaigns, audience and sales data using the UMG suite of analytics tools
Track performance metrics and share in a timely and incisive manner
Identify streaming spikes, potential reasons and flag opportunities to wider label teams
Become an expert in utilizing all external partner tools (e.g. Spotify for Artists, Apple Music for Artists etc) as well as 3rd party data tools (e.g. Chartmetric)
Person Specification
A passion for & broad knowledge of multiple musical genres and audiences; a love of music across the decades is a bonus
Display initiative, with a proactive, energetic approach to work
Strong, clear communication & interpersonal skills
Excellent attention to detail
Good numeracy skills
Excellent IT skills; must be proficient in Excel, Google Docs, PowerPoint, Word, and comfortable with learning new systems, e.g. proprietary UMG tracking tools
Bonus Tracks: Your Benefits
Group Personal Pension Scheme (between 3% and 9%) Private Medical Insurance
25 paid days of annual leave
Interest Free Season Ticket Loan available
Holiday Purchase scheme
Dental and Travel Insurance options
Cycle to Work Scheme
Salary Sacrifice Cars
Subsidized Gym Membership
Employee Discounts (Reward Gateway)
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.
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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.