Performance Media Manager

Universal Music Group team

Description

UMA is on the lookout for a Performance Media Manager to join their digital marketing team! The Performance Media Manager is responsible for building, optimising and driving the success of UMA’s digital media campaigns, with a focus on both artist promotion and media buying for eCommerce campaigns. The role involves utilising a variety of innovative media buying techniques to effectively promote artists and drive eCommerce performance.
We are looking for an individual who has a deep interest in music, a passion for digital media buying and is a dynamic problem-solver with a sound understanding of the ever-changing digital mediascape. The ideal candidate should be skilled in leveraging data and content to inform planning, buying, and overall campaign strategy across both artist promotion and their eCommerce initiatives to achieve maximum impact. This is a 12-month contract role.
If you’re music obsessed, a team player, and have a knack for problem solving, apply now!
The role
  • The Performance Media Manager will support UMA labels in planning biddable media campaigns across various media including display, video, search and social, as directed by the Head of Performance Media.
  • Managing media budgets, drafting, and revising media schedules, along with accompanying rationale.
  • Ensuring campaigns are created and implemented to best achieve campaign performance and media efficiency goal.
  • Using insights from a range of sources, both internal and external, to build a case for campaign strategy.
  • Building and managing biddable media campaigns within demand side platforms and/or across partners such as Meta, Tiktok, Google Ads, DV360 etc.
  • Working closely with the wider team to report performance and deliver campaigns in line with performance targets, and with label teams to recommend optimal content and asset creation.
  • Acting as an optimisation expert for each buying platform used, and regularly advising labels of additional opportunities.
  • Preparing analysis and insight to accompany reports provided to the labels.
  • Staying apprised of opportunities for reaching the target audiences of UMA artists.

Requirements

About You
  • 3+ years’ experience in performance marketing, with a proven track record of success in a fast-paced digital agency environment
  • Results-driven, a strong understanding of event tracking, app conversions and customer acquisition
  • Expertise across performance marketing channels such as paid search, programmatic paid social
  • Experience in marketing with media partners and publications; obtaining and reviewing quotes, making recommendations and negotiations etc.
  • Ability to analyse performance of channels and shift media spend in response on a regular basis
  • Tertiary qualifications in business, marketing, commerce, media or other relevant areas are preferred
  • Strong knowledge of reporting tools such as GA4, Meta Ads Manager and Google Looker Studio for tracking and analysing campaign performance.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, organised, adaptable and a problem-solver
  • Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment and provide input
  • Excellent at working and delivering against deadlines, thinking proactively with the ability to meet goals under pressure

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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 Nov 1

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Full time

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