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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
This role provides support to the International Marketing department at Universal Music UK. The frontline international department represents Universal UK’s labels – Polydor, Island, EMI, Capitol and Decca and their UK signed artists.
The B Side: Skills & Experience
Be administrative
- General administrative duties e.g. answering phones, writing emails, photocopying, ordering couriers, stock, FOC’s, stationery, sending out tickets, updating distribution lists
- Updating weekly charts, collating chart information from all territories
- Ad hoc project support/assisting in the day-to-day running of the department
- Analysing sales figures of artists worldwide and reporting to senior members of the team, labels and UK management
- Assisting with the administration and co-ordination of Marketing Conferences and artist showcases
- Creating weekly streaming and sales reports
- Processing department invoices
- Booking travel for artists and staff
- Helping to co-ordinate artist promotion in respect of schedules and travel
- Setting up Play MPE blasts
- Organising and connecting phoners between artists and international journalists
- Managing promo requests and creating promo schedules
- Assisting in filmed and recorded promo and ID sessions
- Daily updating of Directors “Daily Files”
- Creating presentations using PowerPoint, Prezi and Keynote
Person Specification
Necessary
- Passionate about music with a desire to progress in the industry
- The ability to multitask and learn quickly
- Self-motivated, hardworking and enthusiastic
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills and a good telephone manner
- Highly organised with the ability to keep calm under pressure
- Flexible and able to prioritise own workload
- Good computer skills i.e. Microsoft Office, Excel, Word
Desirable
- Experience of working in an office environment
- Experience working in ‘music’ (personal or professional)
- Desire to work within marketing
- Photoshop/ Video Editing
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.
