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It’s the passionate and dedicated team at Universal Music UK who help make us Britain’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. 

The A Side A Day in The Life

To work alongside the Head of Dance Marketing and the Director of Streaming to provide support across Polydor’s dance campaigns.

The B Side Skills Experience

Be Administrative

  • Monitor all key releases and distribute stats, streaming data and updates
  • Spot recent trends in consumption on key releases and share with wider team
  • Assist with delivering content and creative for current and forthcoming releases
  • Contribute ideas to the setup and planning of forthcoming releases and wider artist projects
  • Help arrange meetings and take minutes where needed
  • Update the gig guide, internal release schedule and label agenda every week and distribute to the label
  • Book couriers, transport and accommodation
  • Additional ad hoc duties where required

Be Operational

  • Initiate digital releases with production team
  • Publish the physical & digital sales notes for each release plus ensure all relevant pitching processes are complete
  • Help manage marketing budgets within internal finance system Uniport – including coding invoices, helping ensure suppliers get paid in a timely fashion, raising budgets and ensuring budgets are in line with what’s been planned by marketing
  • Set up releases for advanced streaming in Play MPE & Studio CDN
  • Collate and distribute assets using Box – e.g. artwork, press releases, biogs etc
  • Coordinate trafficking for all advertising booked each week
  • Assist in ensuring physical pre-orders are initiated and go live for relevant releases
  • Check all releases are logged with the OCC (Official Charts Company)
  • Be responsible for ticket requests
  • Help in the arrangement of events, playbacks and signings

Person Specification

  • Passionate about dance music with a thorough and practical understanding of the genre
  • Awareness of platforms such as TikTok, Soundcloud, YouTube, Discord, Twitch
  • Appetite for discovering new music, spotting trends and identifying emerging audience behaviours within dance
  • Desire to work within both marketing and streaming
  • The ability to multitask and learn quickly
  • Self-motivated, hardworking and enthusiastic
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills – confident liaising with suppliers, team members, artists and their management
  • Highly organised with the ability to keep calm under pressure
  • Flexible and able to prioritise own workload

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
  • Subsidised 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.