Junior Marketing Manager

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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The A Side: A Day in The Life

To create deliver and manage outstanding and profitable marketing campaigns and strategies for international releases. The Polydor international roster includes artists such as: Billie Eilish Sabrina Carpenter Olivia Rodrigo Gracey Abrams Kendrick Lamar Doechii & more.

The B Side: Skills & Experience

Be creative

• Plan multi-platform advertising campaigns to effectively utilise the budgets and their key performance indicators.

• Manage creative content & assets to support all release campaigns.

• Devise effective and innovative campaigns in conjunction with the global marketing teams across all channels foreffective and progressive audience development and conversion.

• Thinking creatively outside the realms of the day to day for opportunities and moment lead marketing.

Be strategic

• Report chart metrics and key performance indicators across projects.

• Oversee/ project manage all elements of the campaign to create bespoke and nimble strategies across eachartist/project.

• Responsible for individual artist budgets in line with the agreed forecasts.

• Understanding/ assimilating multiple levels of data to inform strategy use of tools to measure successes andchallenges of track/ album performance.

• Ensure all information is accurately and urgently communicated to all departments regarding release plans changesdevelopments growth.

• Be prepared to adapt job role and requirements to suit an ever-changing music landscape.

Be collaborative

• Develop strong relationships with artists and artist management with partner labels and with agents and promotersto develop strategies around music releases and artist growth.

• Work closely with the label and team beyond A&R/Content/Digital/Press/Promotions/Sales/ International/Streaming/ Agents and Promoters etc. to deliver connected and cutting-edge strategies across the business.

• Work with digital and the central insight team to plan and execute regular audience research to inform campaignplanning timing excellence and longevity.

• Work closely with the commercial team to undertake operational and creative responsibility for e-Commerce acrossall release campaigns. Including developing and initiating innovative ideas for merchandising & products.

• Work closely with the commercial team to undertake operational and creative responsibility for partner activations marketing and editorial.

Person Specification

Necessary

• A network of contacts.

• Proven knowledge of charts trends and artists.

• Ability to identify and nurture artist talent.

• Be a creative and critical thinker. Take ideas from ideation to fruition.

• Have strong knowledge of the streaming space and playlisting fundamentally on Spotify and Apple Music Amazon& YouTube services.

• Experience of working with acts of various sizes and budgets.

• Experience of effectively managing budgets on own projects and maximising profits.

• Success at incorporating digital activity and content strategy into marketing campaigns.

• Excellent relationship-building and relationship-management skills with the ability to deal with difficult situationswith tact and diplomacy.

• Strong communication skills written and verbal and outstanding presentational ability.

• Successful experience in negotiating with artists artist management internal stakeholders and seniormanagement.

• Experience instigating and managing managing budgets briefs and contracts.

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

• 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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