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.
The role
UMG’s Global Digital Business Affairs team are responsible for negotiating and administering UMG’s multi-territory licensing agreements with digital music services such as Spotify, YouTube, Deezer and Apple Music.
The team is heavily involved in all things that bring together music and technology and work closely with UMG Operating Companies around the world to provide digital guidelines and support on their local deals.
- Based in London, this role will provide general legal and administrative support to UMG’s Global Digital Business Affairs team based in London and Los Angeles.
- Primary responsibility for general administrative and support duties for the London team including coordinating the signature of agreements, arranging meetings, booking meetings rooms, taking meeting notes, filing documents, processing invoices and expenses, arranging travel and being the point of contact for the team.
- Support and assist the Global Digital Business Affairs team in the drafting, review and negotiation of key commercial contracts with digital music services.
- Independently draft, review and finalise standard template agreements, such as NDAs and extension amendments.
- Perform contract analysis and management, including the input of key deal terms into a contract database system.
- Help to maintain internal UMG guidelines to support company policies and processes.
- Assess commercial and other key aspects of digital deals submitted by the local Operating Companies for central approval, to ensure compliance with UMG guidelines.
- Liaise and develop relationships with key individuals within UMG and the digital teams in the local Operating Companies to help ensure that the digital deal approval processes operate efficiently.
- Work cross-functionally with internal teams across multiple territories to support the deal process, including Business Development and Finance.
- Develop and maintain a sound understanding of new digital music products and services.
Person specification
Essential
- LLB/BA/BSc degree with an LPC qualification, SQE qualification or equivalent experience.
- Experience working within an in-house legal team or at a private practice law firm.
- Experience reviewing and summarising commercial contracts.
- You must be proactive and reliable with excellent time management skills.
- You must possess the ability to prioritise and pivot between multiple projects and work to tight deadlines, with a strong sense of initiative.
- You must be able to independently and proactively manage your own work load.
- You will need excellent communication skills (written, verbal and interpersonal) and an ability to explain difficult concepts to colleagues who may not have English as their first language.You must be able to complete work accurately with careful attention to detail.
- Capable of working under pressure and maintaining calm.
- Excellent organisational, administrative and document management skills.
- Excellent analytical, research skills and computer skills.
Preferred
- Experience working in a global team and managing multiple time zones.
- Experience of working with or in the music (or other digital media) industry or with a strong interest in music or other digital media industry.
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.
