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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
Capitol is a smaller label with the Universal Music UK family that thrives on collaboration, creativity and teamwork. The label punches well above its weight with global superstars including Sam Smith & Liam Payne, hotly tipped ones to watch for 2021 including Mae Muller & Zoe Wees, as well a new signing Aitch.
The B Side: Skills & Experience
Be Organised
- Diary management (organising meetings) & other general assistance for senior members of staff
- Office management tasks, including kit & stationary ordering & liaising with IT
- Coordinating ticket ordering and ordering stock (vinyl/CDs) and merch when required
- Managing invoices via Uniport
- Organising artist and staff travel
- Compiling weekly updates and timelines for Artist campaigns
- Taking notes in meetings & circulating afterwards
- Commissioning awards & plaques for artist milestones
- Ordering stock (vinyl/CDs) and merch when required
- Creating links in advance of releases
- Sending tracks out prior to release (Radiomonitor, Shazam, StudioCDN etc)
- Submitting video descriptions on YouTube/VEVO
- Being across digital advertising campaigns
Be Collaborative
- Supporting the artist and label team in organising media for our clients
- Supporting the label team with assisting with company events, artist gifting
- Supporting the label team with ad hoc admin assistance across the entire label
- Bringing your own creative insight and ideas to artist marketing campaigns
Person Specification
Necessary
- Strong attention to detail
- Excellent admin & organisation skills
- Pro-active
- Self-motivated, hard-working and enthusiastic
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Confident with the ability to keep calm under pressure
- Flexible and able to prioritise own workload
- Meticulous and tenacious about delivering the right results
- Previous experience of working within fixed processes
- Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to work round issues
- Passionate about music
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
- 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.
