Digital Partnerships Internship London 2024

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.

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

The Digital Partnerships Intern will be a key part of Universal Music’s Central Commercial & Creative Services team, reporting to the Director of Digital Partnerships, helping the team operationalise and commercialise our key relationships and campaigns with UK DSPs and UMG labels.

The role will be a supporting one, helping with a range of tasks to ensure the smooth process/flow of information & releases from UMG’s labels to key external business partners.

They must be proactive and have excellent attention to detail, as well as being able to prioritise tasks and recognise where a level of expediency is needed. Good communication skills, both written and verbal are essential.

They will be working across many different areas of the business, with key stakeholders and should therefore be able to work as part of a team with a can-do attitude.

They will also have a good opportunity to get involved with partner-facing discussions, assisting the Partnerships team in the development and execution of our wide-ranging artist campaigns.

The B Side: Skills & experience

Digital Partnerships Support

Audio-Visual

• Support our audio-visual lead to help review and action basic optimisation proposals to artist YouTube channels & assets (metadata, tags, descriptions, links & thumbnails).
• Create visual templates to display and communicate optimisation proposals to our UK labels.
• Track implementation of optimisation proposals (check & monitor labels activity to ensure suggested changes have been made).
• Help with the manual tasks required around updating, distributing and collecting information relating to unclaimed content (this could range from fraudulent art tracks to weekly priority tracks for manual claiming effort).
• Help produce & co-ordinate educational resources/sessions.
• Help with running and compiling data & analytic queries.

General

• Support the Digital Partnerships Team across all key UK digital streaming partners and regularly liaise with Commercial and Marketing teams within the labels.
• Channel management across the DSPs – come up with suggested changes to artist profiles, recommending workflows to ensure partner platforms are optimised from a streaming and revenue perspective for the group
• Help the team to effectively communicate wider learnings to the business through maintaining a public sharepoint, keeping all pages and resources up to date (formatting how to guides/reports/decks/FAQ’s and helping collate information/data into a single table or updating slides/graphs).
• Point of contact for smaller streaming partners, with support from Junior Partnership Managers
• Support labels by collating and distributing advanced links for upcoming release marketing.
• Collate listening links for unreleased music and share with trusted business partners.
• Manage and maintain Digital Release Schedules to ensure they are always up to date and accurate, both internally and external partner-facing documents
• Consolidate long term priority schedule for internal use and reference.
• Booking in Spotify and VEVO advertising inventory for all labels, liaising with label teams on asset creation and delivery.
• Day-to-day management of MusicBash, a gamified music app that allows users to vote on their favourite tracks, working with labels to prioritize key artists.
• Curate dynamic and fixed playlists, using knowledge of cultural trends to drive follows and plays.
• Schedule, organize, and attend label meetings, collating agenda’s and taking meeting notes.

Person specification

• Computer literate, with skills in all Microsoft Office products (especially important is good level on Excel)
• Proactive, self-motivated, and confident individual.
• Commercially aware & highly numerate.
• Good, proven communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Methodical individual with excellent organisation and time management skills.
• Proven ability to work as part of a team.
• Desire to learn new technologies, process, applications.

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.