Digital Internship 2021

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. 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

Assistant to the Digital Team whose primary responsibility is to deliver innovative and impactful digital marketing strategy and campaigns for Polydor.

The B Side: Skills & Experience

Be digital

• Contribute to brainstorming sessions and discussions around campaigns, innovation and technology
• Assist the Content Creation team with delivery and workflow of digital content and assets, including some asset creation
• Help to run eCRM activity including HTML email design, sign up forms, competitions, managing deliveries, and reporting
• Helping to develop and maintain our influencer network database
• Keeping abreast of new digital innovation and platforms that might be useful or relevant for our artists
• Monitoring competitor activity and preparing reports
• Updating social networking sites and websites with news and content
• Setting up new artist accounts on platforms like Spotify, YouTube, Facebook
• Running analysis and creating reports on growth and changes to social networks for our artists
• Overseeing video delivery with central supply chain teams
• Review new services and suppliers on a regular basis with the digital team
• Find, engage and develop relevant target audiences via digital platforms
• Help deliver value for the artist in excellent management of all their digital activities

Be administrative

• Raising purchase orders for costs and closing invoices
• Sending packages on couriers, bikes and booking taxis / transport for the department
• Ordering stationery and tickets for the department
• Meeting and diary management for Head of Digital and the team.
• Additional ad hoc duties where required
• Processing basic legal clearances for music videos
• Preparing documents and information for team or management/artist meetings
• Following up on team meetings with notes and action points.
• Retail link building and distribution
• Help deliver against performance targets set out by the President and Senior Digital Marketing Manager

Be Collaborative

• Work with the wider Polydor marketing, commercial and promotions teams to help deliver high impact and successful campaigns for our artists
• Provide support to Digital Team and Head of Digital in all activities

Person Specification

Necessary

• Specialist knowledge of Rap, Hip Hop and Grime communities
• Tik Tok native user and demonstrated skill and understanding of the platform
• A digital native and avid user of social media who is enthusiastic about innovation and technology
• Passionate about music with a desire to work in digital and progress in the music industry
• A finger on the pulse of the latest innovations and consumer trends in digital media
• Some knowledge of digital marketing & current digital music developments
• Creative flair, someone with ideas
• Aptitude for technical tasks and the ability to learn quickly
• Experience using/ maintaining social networking sites & streaming services (Spotify, YouTube + SoundCloud)
• Ability to analyse data
• Basic knowledge of HTML
• Understanding and experienced using Google Analytics and other Social Media Analytics
• Self-motivated, hard-working and enthusiastic
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Highly organised with the ability to keep calm under pressure
• Flexible and able to prioritise own workload
• Experience of working in an office environment.

Desirable

• Experience working in ‘music’ (personal or professional)
• Experience working with social media influencers (youtubers, musers etc)
• Marketing experience
• Confident in using graphics software (e.g. InDesign, Photoshop, AfterEffects, Flash)

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.