Description

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 will be a key role at UMPG in our Global Digital Administration department, working closely with cross-functional teams to ensure the optimal operations of UMPG’s direct and special purpose vehicle (SPV) DSPs licenses and to monitor their performance. The role will have a focus on the Asia Pacific region.
You will manage operational relationships between UMPG and our digital licensing hubs as well as our regional and local UMPG teams.
This team operates a hybrid working policy of 4 days per week in the office, with 1 day working from home.
The B Side: Skills & Experience
Be Strategic
Use a variety of data sources such as consumption data, society distribution and processed royalty data to provide insights for our licensing and finance teams and project the outcomes of strategies and scenarios to help drive value for UMPG’s songwriters and publishing partners.
Be Collaborative
Facilitate optimal claiming processes, engage with and work alongside our global, regional, and local copyright and tracking teams to help deliver on contractual obligations and expectations. Manage business unit expectations and provide timetables where appropriate.
Contribute to the harmonisation of UMPG’s digital data streams globally and help to drive data improvements with partners.
Work with licensing, regional finance and digital hubs to record and track financial positions.
Various ad-hoc projects assigned by the Senior Director of Digital Administration.
Be Innovative
Develop expertise across the operational and market landscapes. Curate your knowledge into resources for the wider business.
Contribute to the development and optimisation of business processes and tools, both internally and cross-industry. Identify issues, suggest, and implement solutions.

Requirements

Person Specification
Essential
Proven track record working at a DSP, Music Publisher, Label or Society.
Understanding of the digital landscape.
An aptitude for logical thinking and problem solving.
Ability to use own initiative.
Effective communication and presentation skills.
Ability to understand and then explain complex processes.
Good standard of numeracy and literacy.
Good working knowledge of Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint.
Willingness and ability to learn and effectively use multiple bespoke systems.
Desirable
Knowledge of Domo/Quicksight or other analytics packages.
Use of Monday.com/Jira/Trello.
Experience with licensing agreements.
Experience of maintaining operational relationships with business partners across multiple territories

Benefits & Perks

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)

How to apply

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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 Apr 2

London Area, UK

Hybrid

Full time

Junior