Label Manager
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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
The A Side: The Collective
In October 2024 Universal Music UK brought together two iconic music labels Island and EMI Records to createIsland EMI Label Group. The new powerhouse label group is designed to help deliver our strategy to support artists from the wider Universal family.
Within Island-EMI isThe Collective; anincubator for the next generation of musical entrepreneurs. The Collectiveis a dynamic new start-up division of the business it brings together a group of A&R-led labels including POSITIVA The Cross Adventure Recordings 40 Miles Up Ya Archives and EMI North.
The Collective team provides creative strategic and operational support to these labels helping them grow and develop their artists while acting as a key link between the Island EMI and Virgin teams.
The B Side:The Role
The Label Manager will managethe relationships with assigned label partners in The Collective acting as the day-to-day point of contact to the label andrepresentingtheir labels interests internally
Working with the MD on-board the labels to The Collective and vice versa brief and introduce all internal teams to the labels
Liaise with labels on all frontline-signed artist campaigns working with the MD to put teams in place internally and externally
Work with assigned Virgin Artist & Label Services Label Manager to ensure the labels are on-boarded onto all the relevant systems and follow best practice for all their Virgin releases and helping to support on and resolve any issues
Ensure labels circulate regular commercial / campaign updates on all artist campaigns and updates are shared with the correct teams in each instance
Implement regular in-person meetings with labels
On-board labels to all UMG resources and tools available to them
As required create and/or commission tools to manage the day-to-day admin of The Collective as it continues to grow
Working with the MD:
Advise and guide on development strategies for the labels and their artists ensuring labels achieve their goals
Manage budget approvals and tracking of spend and approvals
Implement regular and effective Collective-to-label comms
Manage The Collective social media events internalcommsand PR strategy
Person Specification
Passion for music across a broad range of genres.
Proven experienceofproject managing artist campaigns
Ideally have experience working withina recordlabelordistributionservice
Proven authoritative knowledge of charts trends and artists
A broad network of contacts
Acreative and critical thinkerwho can take ideas from ideation to fruition
Have strong knowledge ofmarketing and commercialoperations processessystemsand tools
Experience of working with acts ofvarious sizesand budget
Excellent relationship-building and relationship-management skills with the ability to deal withdifficult situationswith tact and diplomacy
Exceptionalcommunication skills written and verbal
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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