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.

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. 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

Abbey Road is the home of music-making. Were the worlds first and most iconic recording studio and a leader in sonic innovation with the experience and craft to bring out the best music in any vision or idea.

For almost 94 years weve welcomed the artists who have shaped music and popular culture. From the greats - The Beatles Fela Kuti Pink Floyd Kate Bush Yehudi Menuhin Massive Attack Amy Winehouse Oasis Nick Cave Stevie Wonder and Shirley Bassey to the legends of today - Lady Gaga Little Simz The Smile Florence Dave Sheku Kanneh-Mason Frank Ocean Ezra Collective Sam Smith Morgan Wallen and Stormzy.

Once a nine-bedroom house were now a global community of artists experts inventors and engineers whose technology and expertise can be accessed from anywhere in the world. Alongside our studios and writing spaces we work to develop groundbreaking technology that continues to change the future of music-making. Through our learning programmes and workshops were creating one-off experiences and empowering a new generation of talent.

This home has created soundtracks to nights in nights out heartbreaks and first loves. Epic adventures and life-affirming stories. Weve been home to the greatest film music of the last 45 years. From Raiders of the Lost Ark the Star Wars and Harry Potter movies and The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogies to Barbie Gravity The Shape of Water Tar Wakanda Forever Frankenstein and all the Marvel titles. Across genres generations and continents Abbey Road helps music makers move the world. Come on in.

The A Side: A Day in The Life

This role plays a vital part in shaping how the world experiences Abbey Road - helping us connect both our legacy of creativity and innovation and our future vision with new generations of artists and audiences.

Every day is different

Whether planning our brand calendar; orchestrating our marketing communications brand programmes and activations; managing campaign & content development; or reviewing and measuring impact; no two days are the same in the life of the Senior Campaign Planner.

Drive brand effectiveness

Youll support the Director of Marketing & Creative in managing the end-to-end delivery and optimising the performance of Abbey Roads omnichannel marketing inspiring audiences and helping everyone understand our story purpose and vision. Youll lead the planning development execution and measurement of our work to grow audience share engagement and profitable behaviour.

Take a strategic and integrated approach

Using your integrated marketing expertise youll take a centralised view across our communications audiences channels and performance to ensure all activity is insight-led balanced well-timed and has maximum line with brand strategy and vision youll lead and manage our processes to bring innovative thinking and robust marketing & planning structure to everything we do.

Collaborate and unify

Youll lead and manage a team of two ambitious and highly capable marketing managers and serve as a central point to consult closely with internal stakeholders (including Partnerships Audio Products Studio Services and Retail) on campaigns and activity introducing marketing discipline and effectively embedding our vision.

Work across a diverse portfolio

Our business is broad: from legendary spaces and high-tech studios to world-leading creative tools and production solutions; from innovations that transform the consumer listening experience to events and content that bring creativity ideas and people together; from programmes that give back and inform and inspire the next generation to collaborations with artists composers producers photographers fashion designers innovators and choreographers; from a global school to our own shop and online store.

Deliver excellence and alignment

Youll work across all of these and more ensuring optimal strategic alignment and fully integrated planning together with the highest quality output. And youll support the Director of Marketing & Creative with ownership and development of ad hoc projects activations and new initiatives. Success in this role will be measured by the growth and engagement of our audiences the consistency and quality of our brand presence across all channels and the effectiveness of our marketing planning and processes.

Bring creativity and innovation

Youll bring energy curiosity and creative confidence inspiring those around you to think bigger and push boundaries. Youll help us balance past present and future; celebrate heritage and innovation; protecting what makes Abbey Road iconic while exploring new ways to reach and engage audiences.

Show leadership and influence

Youll act as a strategic partner and thought leader within the business bringing outside learning in and helping to champion a culture of creativity collaboration and high performance across all marketing activity.

The B Side: Skills & Experience

Proven 360 marketing experience

In this role youll manage the planning and execution of Abbey Roads brand and marketing comms content and activations so youll have a proven track record of planning creating and delivering highly-effective 360 marketing campaigns in a similar fast-paced industry.

A great multitasker

Were a small and high-achieving team with big ambitions so this is a hands-on role juggling multiple projects and priorities working closely with the Director of Marketing & Creative to shape and grow our output and impact.

Creative organised and driven

Whether leading our calendar and designing campaign plans maximising the potential of an activation serving as brand guardian devising a new content series presenting an idea to artist management developing the team or researching & writing compelling copy and designing brilliant digital assets youll need to be highly organised with the motivation to make a difference.

Strategic and analytical balance

Youve got great creative instincts but you combine this with strategic clarity and rigour using insight and analysis to help unlock brilliant ideas.

People development

Youre a leader who knows how to get the best out of people developing motivating and empowering creative teams.

Communication and stakeholder management

Youre a confident communicator who can build trust and influence across a wide range of internal and external stakeholders

Person Specification

Essential

• A senior manager with solid experience in a similar role leading marketing & campaign planning with a genuine understanding of fully integrated end-to-end marketing and related processes.

• Outstanding organisational and project management skills with the ability to manage multiple projects concurrently to timeline and budget. Youre detail driven comfortable with managing complex processes across multiple activations and campaigns.

• Exceptional written communication skills and grammatical accuracy from writing clear briefs and proposals to compelling and effective copy.

• An inspiring team leader able to motivate guide and develop high-performing colleagues.

• Stellar interpersonal skills - a strong confident and personable communicator and collaborator comfortable dealing with varied stakeholders who works well independently and as part of a team.

• Solid creative skills from leading development of high quality concepts artwork and assets to devising original ideas and solutions.

• Excellent understanding and experience of using digital media to achieve business & communications objectives adept at using the major platforms to maximise engagement and track results.

• Robust experience of managing external agencies and suppliers.

• A driven self-motivated individual with a creative curious mindset and a drive to challenge the norm and grow market share.

• An ambassador for Abbey Road its role in music culture its history and its cultural impact.

• At least 5 years experience in a similar role.

• The role is based at Abbey Road Studios in St Johns Wood London and is very specific to the music production world. Please make sure you understand that youre applying for a role that is based at Abbey Road in London.

Desirable

• Marketing degree or professional qualification.

• Understanding of music making recording or studio environments would be beneficial but not essential.

• Deep passion for music with broad knowledge of genres.

• Proficient creative design skills using Photoshop Lightroom Illustrator and InDesign.

• Experience with content management systems (CMS) such as Wordpress.

• Good knowledge of Premiere Pro or similar video editing software.

• Experience with CRM systems.

Terms of Work

• 5 days a week Monday to Friday

• Core hours - 9.30am 6:00pm

• Some out-of-hours work required to ensure campaign delivery manage filmed studio sessions and our learning & creative programmes

• In person at Abbey Road Studios London and occasionally in other locations

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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