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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
Work closely with Campaign Managers, Head of Catalogue & Classical Marketing and Mercury KX Label Head and assist in all aspects of the marketing process
The B Side: Skills & experience
Be operational
- Supporting Campaign Managers and Head of Catalogue & Classical Marketing with all aspects of marketing campaigns across Decca Records, Decca Classics, and Mercury Classics Soundtrack & Score releases
- Liaising with external suppliers
- Assisting with launch events and other campaign event moments
- Assisting with photo and video shoots and relating administration
- Supporting the Marketing Assistant where appropriate
- Arranging and organisation of digital assets into Universal systems
- Co-ordinating the set-up and delivery of digital and physical audio releases
- Co-ordinating the set-up and delivery of videos and other content to hosting sites
Be administrative
- Creation of infomails and circulation of audio to internal and external contacts
- Managing Box / Alpha asset resources
- Booking advertising with internal and external media agencies
- Managing Uniport for all departmental invoicing, set up and assisting with budget management
- Managing the upkeep and distribution of release schedules
- Supporting Campaign Managers with label copy and other production duties where appropriate
- Creation of Linkfire links for products
- Booking of staff and artist travel
- General admin supporting the marketing team
- Any other duties that support the marketing team
- Other duties as appropriate
Person specification
- Passionate about music
- Excellent attention to detail
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to deal with people at all levels
- Highly organised with the ability to keep calm under pressure
- Flexible and able to prioritise own workload
- Self-motivated with the ability to deal with the routine tasks as well as the more interesting aspects of the role
- Good IT skills i.e. Word Packages and Excel
- Ability to use own initiative in terms of problem solving
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.
