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.

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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

The Commercial Assistant will be a key part of the Commercial Division, sitting within Universal Music’s Central Commercial & Creative Services Division.

This is a support role helping with a range of tasks to ensure the delivery of assets, analysis and reporting to our key stakeholders. The right candidate must be proactive with a strong attention to detail and good problem-solving skills.  A healthy appetite for teamwork and communication skills are also needed with an approachable attitude.

This role will focus support on the Digital Partnerships work delivered by the team, both internal labels and 3rdParty, so an interest in this area is desirable. Strong technical and computer skills with a desire to learn new technologies, processes, and application is required, with the ability to use these skills to proactively problem solve and improve processes.

The B Side: Skills & Experience

• Support and delivery of schedules and assets to partners.
• Support and delivery of reporting to labels and other central teams.
• Support ad hoc requests and data collection for stakeholders across the business at various levels.
• Support data collection and key analysis on content monetisation.
• Contribute to team brainstorming and label meetings.

Person Specification

• Strong computer skills with a desire to learn new technologies, processes, and applications (an understanding of SQL is desirable).
• Commercially aware & highly numerate.
• Proactive, self-motivated, and confident individual.
• Methodical individual with excellent organisation and time management skills.
• Good, proven communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Proven ability to work as part of a team.

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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