A&R Admin Coordinator

Music is Universal

Its the passionate and dedicated team at Universal Music who help make us the worlds 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.

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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

The A Side: A Day in The Life

The A&R Admin team sits at the heart of Universal Music UKs 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 withA&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.

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

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 available

• 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 jobholders 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.

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