A&R Admin Coordinator

Universal Music Group team

Description

The A Side: A Day in The Life
The A&R Admin team sits at the heart of Universal Music UK’s creative operations, providing essential support to our Artists & Repertoire (A&R) teams across the labels. We ensure that the creative process runs smoothly by managing the administrative, contractual, and logistical elements of the recording process.
From setting up recording sessions and processing producer and songwriter agreements, to overseeing budgets and ensuring compliance with company policies, the team plays a vital role in turning creative ideas into commercially successful releases. Acting as the link between artists, A&R, legal, finance, and production, A&R Admin helps to create the foundation on which our artists and repertoire can thrive.
The B Side: Skills & Experience
Be Operational
  • Booking and coordinating recording, mixing and mastering sessions.
  • Liaising with A&Rs/marketing/metadata/release planning teams RE formatting and scheduling for all releases.
  • Ensuring all audio parts for physical and digital products are ordered and put in to production in time to meet release deadlines, for UK and international.
  • Collating and compiling all label copy for copyright and artwork. Liaising with managers, writers, publishers, producers, mixers and musicians to ensure all credits are received and are correctly integrated into the UMG systems.
  • Archiving all masters after recording sessions. Ensuring producers, mixers and engineers have supplied all parts required from sessions in the required format.
  • Compiling studio, musician, and remix agreements and ensuring these are signed and processed promptly.
  • Booking travel for artists.
**Be Administrative **
  • Compiling studio, musician, and remix agreements and ensuring these are signed and processed promptly.
  • Attend weekly scheduling meeting.
  • Any other reasonable duty as instructed by line manager.
  • Oversee delivery of all singles deals on the domestic roster, ensuring all the usual processes are followed with the guidance of your mgr.
  • In Uniport paying supplier invoices on time, while monitoring overall recording budget spend.
  • Book the artist travel to recording sessions.

Requirements

Person Specification
Necessary
  • Excellent IT skills; must be proficient in Word, Excel and Outlook.
  • Knowledge of Audio and Production Parts.
  • Proven experience of working to strict deadlines and excellent organisational skills.
  • Experience of working on own as well as part of a team.
  • Experience of working with colleagues at all levels.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Ability to, and experience of, remaining calm in a sometimes-pressured environment.
  • Committed and flexible.
  • R2 User.
Desirable
  • Negotiation experience.
  • Ability to use Uniport

How to apply

Apply via link

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Universal Music Group

Universal Music Group (UMG) is the world leader in music-based entertainment, with a broad array of businesses engaged in recorded music, music publishing, merchandising and audiovisual content in more than 60 countries. Featuring the most comprehensive catalog of recordings and songs across every musical genre, UMG identifies and develops artists and produces and distributes the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful music in the world. Committed to artistry, innovation and entrepreneurship, UMG fosters the development of services, platforms and business models in order to broaden artistic and commercial opportunities for our artists and create new experiences for fans. Universal Music Group's labels include A&M Records, Astralwerks, Blue Note Records, Capitol Christian Music Group, Capitol Records, Capitol Records Nashville, Caroline, Decca, Def Jam Recordings, Deutsche Grammophon, Disa, Emarcy, EMI Records Nashville, Fonovisa, Geffen Records, Harvest, Interscope Records, Island Records, Machete Music, MCA Nashville, Mercury Nashville, Mercury Records, Motown Records, Polydor Records, Republic Records, Universal Music Latino, Verve Label Group, Virgin Records, Virgin EMI Records, as well as a multitude of record labels owned or distributed by its record company subsidiaries around the world. UMG's catalog is marketed through two distinct divisions, Universal Music Enterprises (in the U.S.) and Universal Strategic Marketing (outside the U.S.). UMG also includes Universal Music Publishing Group, one of the industry's premier music publishing operations worldwide and Bravado, the leading provider of consumer, lifestyle and branding services to recording artists and entertainment brands around the world. Universal Music Group is a Vivendi company.

Job Details

Posted on Sep 12

London, England, UK

Full time

Junior