Senior Manager, UK Paid Media

At Warner Music Group were a global collective of music makers and music lovers tech innovators and inspired entrepreneurs game-changing creatives and passionate team members. Here we turn dreams into stardom and audiences into fans. We are guided by three core values that underpin everything we do across all our diverse businesses:

• Curiosity: We do our best work when were immersing ourselves in culture and breaking through barriers. Curiosity is the driving force behind creativity and ingenuity. It fuels innovation and innovation is the key to our future.

• Collaboration: Making music and bringing it to the world is all about the power of originality amplified by teamwork. A great idea like a great song travels globally. We ignite passions and build connections across our diverse community of artists songwriters partners and fans.

• Commitment: We pursue excellence for our team and our talent. Everything in music starts with a leap into the unknown and were committed to keeping the faith acting with integrity and delivering on our promises.

WMG is home to a wide range of artists musicians and songwriters that fuel our success. That is why we are committed to creating a work environment that actively values appreciates and respects everyone. We encourage applications from people with a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences.

Consider a career at WMG and get the best of both worlds an innovative global music company that retains the creative spirit of a nimble independent.

Job Title: Senior Manager UK Paid Media

A little bit about our team:

Global Catalogue is both the communication centre between Warner Music Catalogue labels and International Territories around the world and the paramount frontier for marketing artists in the streaming era. We work closely with all labels and artists under the Recorded Music division to develop new catalogue opportunities in marketing A&R content development and consumption and then convert our findings into new strategies that are deployed across the company to our Catalogue teams around the world.

With catalogues from great heritage acts such as Led Zeppelin Fleetwood Mac David Bowie Pink Floyd Phil Collins The Doors Aretha Franklin Joni Mitchell Madonna Prince Eric Clapton New Order to more current artists such as Wale Jess Glynne Clean Bandit Muse and many morethe Warner Music catalogue is a rich and varied one that requires constant management and reinvention.

This can vary from reimagining a classic album creating and promoting a playlist managed by us or encouraging consumption of key tracks on streaming services through to maintaining artist profile with digital suppliers.

Your role:

The Senior Manager UK Paid Media will act as an in-house specialist to develop execute analyse and report paid media marketing campaigns for our artists originating from the US or UK. This person will liaise and strategise with all relevant media agencies and platforms for optimum content placement to drive revenue and engagement.

Here youll get to:

• Work closely and collaboratively with Artist Brand Managers to develop media strategies that support the respective goals and reach for artist and genre campaigns.

• Advise on budget optimisations and efficiencies to help reach artist KPIs and performance goals.

• Strategise for optimal content placement by channel media opportunity content type and copy type.

• Collect performance data conduct in-depth analyses and make recommendations based on data-driven conclusions.

• Liaise with outside media agencies to execute digital and traditional campaigns as needed building and maintaining relationships with key account contacts in the UK.

• Oversee the buildout of all paid media assets (programmatic print OOH TV pre-roll etc.).

• Maintain a high level of knowledge of key competitors best practices and new paid media tools.

• Create and maintain a constant feedback loop via weekly updates and monthly reporting documents to the Artist Brand Manager teams.

• Identify and create custom audience groups with first-party data and website audience lists.

• Design implement and report on A/B tests to drive incremental improvements across all KPIs.

• Understand a unified media strategy across email organic & paid social SEO SEM referral programmes retail product messaging direct mail and other offline channels.

About you:

• You have progressive experience in digital and traditional paid media planning with agency and/or music industry experience preferred.

• You have a Bachelors or Associates Degree with focus on marketing communications or advertising preferred.

• You have experience working with Google Meta (Facebook/Instagram) and other digital platforms.

• You have expertise and deep knowledge in Social Advertising (Meta TikTok Snapchat etc.) SEO & SEM Google Ads Apple Search etc.

• You have experience either working in or with media agencies.

• You have proficiency in Word Excel and PowerPoint. Experience with photo and video editing software (Adobe Creative Suite Final Cut etc.) preferred.

• You have strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate with team members to develop and execute strategic projects.

• You have strong organisational and project management skills with the ability to multi-task across an eclectic variety of projects in a fast-paced environment.

• You have strong interpersonal skills and ability to effectively work and communicate with both creative and business-oriented colleagues and partners.

• You have a strong passion for a wide variety of music artists and genres along with knowledge of how to speak to their fanbases.

• You have a commitment to diversity and inclusion with proven success creating and sustaining a diverse open and inclusive culture.

As the home to 10K Projects Asylum Atlantic Music Group East West FFRR Fueled by Ramen Nonesuch Parlophone Rhino Roadrunner Sire Warner Records Warner Classics and several other of the worlds premier recording labels Warner Music Group champions emerging artists and global superstars alike. And our renowned publishing company Warner Chappell Music represents genre-spanning songwriters and producers through a catalog of more than one million copyrights worldwide. Warner Music Group is also home to ADA which supports the independent community as well as artist services division addition WMG counts film and television storytelling powerhouse Warner Music Entertainment among its many brands.

Together we are Warner Music Group: Independent Minds. Major Sound.

Love this job and want to apply

Click the Apply link at the top of the page or apply directly with your LinkedIn. Applying with LinkedIn will import all of the information you put in your profile but will still allow you to upload a resume and cover letter.

Dont be discouraged if you dont hear from us right away. Were taking our time to review all resumes and to find the best people for WMG.

Thanks for your interest in working for WMG. We love it here and think you will too.

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As the home to 10K Projects Asylum Atlantic Music Group East West FFRR Fueled by Ramen Nonesuch Parlophone Rhino Roadrunner Sire Warner Records Warner Classics and several other of the worlds premier recording labels Warner Music Group champions emerging artists and global superstars alike. And our renowned publishing company Warner Chappell Music represents genre-spanning songwriters and producers through a catalog of more than one million copyrights worldwide. Warner Music Group is also home to ADA which supports the independent community as well as artist services division addition WMG counts film and television storytelling powerhouse Warner Music Entertainment among its many brands.

Together we are Warner Music Group: Independent Minds. Major Sound.

Love this job and want to apply

Click the Apply link at the top of the page or apply directly with your LinkedIn. Applying with LinkedIn will import all of the information you put in your profile but will still allow you to upload a resume and cover letter.

Dont be discouraged if you dont hear from us right away. Were taking our time to review all resumes and to find the best people for WMG.

Thanks for your interest in working for love it here and think you will too.

WMG is committed to inclusion and diversity in all aspects of our business. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and will evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race religion or belief age sex sexual orientation gender gender identity or gender reassignment marital or civil partnership status disability pregnancy childbirth or any other characteristic protected by law.