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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
Commercial Affairs is a cross functional service centre providing informed operational support, project management and digital solutions that drive revenue for labels and markets. Functions include new release management, pricing & commercial terms, commercial analysis, commercial technology, digital partner management, international campaigns creation, direct to consumer and international trade management.
In this role you would be the general team assistant across the Commercial Operations dept and Commercial Technologies dept, reporting to the Director of Analysis, and assisting VP Technologies and VP of Commercial Operations.
The B Side: Skills & Experience
Be Collaborative
- Assist with generation of Monthly Partner Report Updates
- Working on smaller analysis projects with the commercial technologies team
Be Data-driven
- Help deep-dive into market/partner specific analysis covering subscriptions, physical sales, market share, revenue, and artist-specific consumption and performance
- Develop and automate reporting scripts in Big Query
- Interpret and visualise insights and data into presentations
- Dashboard creation using DOMO and Google Data Studio
Be Organised
- Scheduling conference calls and meetings as required
- Financial related responsibilities including use of the UMG online payment system – Uniport, and expenses
- Coordinating presentations where required
Person Specification
Necessary
- Excellent communication skills (written and verbal) and a good telephone manner
- Excellent attention to detail
- Familiarity /practical knowledge of SQL and Python / R programming languages or equivalent
- Strong IT Skills and knowledge of Word, Outlook, Keynote, Powerpoint or equivalent
- Excellent knowledge and manipulation of Excel or equivalent
- Ability to prioritise to tight deadlines, with a strong sense of initiative and discretion
- Ability to multitask
- Excellent organisational skills
- Resilient and tenacious
- A love of music
Desirable
- Experience, even if limited, with data processing (large data sets) and statistical analysis, models and algorithms, and data architectures
- Strong knowledge of Google Suite or equivalent
- Knowledge of Macs and Mac based packages or equivalent
Benefits
- Group Personal Pension Scheme (between 3% and 9%)
- Private Medical Insurance
- 25 paid days of annual leave
- Interest Free Season Ticket Loan
- Holiday Purchase scheme
- Dental and Travel Insurance options
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Salary Sacrifice Cars
- Subsidised Gym Membership
- Employee Discounts (Reward Gateway)
