Music is Universal

It’s the passionate and dedicated team at Universal Music who help make us the world’s 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 UniversalMusicCareers@umusic.com.

The A Side: A Day in The Life

The Audience and Media Division will revolutionise how Universal delivers for our artists and become a new centre of excellence at Universal Music UK.

The Media Division is a creative hub of ‘best in class’ executives from across the industry, representing all areas of promotion. From PR, TV, podcasts, radio, social media, digital channels and influencer culture, we holistically create bespoke, fully integrated media campaigns for our artists not established or new.

This role will play a crucial part of the team, elevating all traditional media opportunities as well as finding new innovative ways for artist promotion.

The B Side: Skills & Experience

Be Operational

• Working in conjunction with the Visual Media & podcast team to formulate podcast / online media strategies to elevate artists promotional campaigns

• Facilitating, scheduling and covering all promo with the artist and their teams.

• Seeking out and securing podcast and podcast / digital media opportunities for UMUK artists at all different stages of their trajectory.

• Collaborating with the media team to create and edit social media assets where necessary.

• Developing and maintaining strong relationships with podcasts / digital media within external partnerships at all levels.

• Liaising and maintaining a strong relationship with artists, management, and associated teams.

• To constantly liaise with the Head of Visual Media on all ideas, feedback, activity, results etc

Be Strategic

• Being trend aware and working quickly to maximise opportunities across podcasts & digital channels.

• Think strategically about up and coming Artist media moments and how we can maximise their opportunity across different audiences.

• Identify opportunities continuously; track successes and failures to make sure the strategy is always being improved on and maximised across Visual promo.

• Nurture existing relationships across podcasts and digital media and build on new relationships with partners across the media landscape.

Be Organised

• Attending internal and external meetings and updating the label or external partners on up-to-date podcast / digital media strategies.

• Managing visual promo budgets alongside the Head of Media where relevant.

• Responsible for inviting and hosting media/guests to concerts, gigs, showcases and events.

• Organising all stages of podcast / digital media promotion from booking, scheduling and covering in a logical and efficient fashion.

• General ad-hoc duties as required.

• Co-ordinating all booked media opportunities with artist teams and internal digital marketing teams to ensure social media coverage of each piece of visual promo is optimised.

** Be Creative**

• Spotting trends and generating original, exciting social media platform and creator ideas to amplify UMUK artists and their music.

• Contributing and delivering innovative ideas of ways to infiltrate modern media as an artist.

• Creating ad hoc content when necessary

• Create content templates for social posts across the visual promotions landscape including TV, podcasts and digital channels to enhance and support promotional activity.

Person Specification

• Proven experience and understanding of the visual promotions landscape including TV, podcasts and digital channels.

• Excellent communication and relationship building skills with a proven and established network across all social media and promo areas.

• Deep understanding of social media and the visual promotions landscape including TV, podcasts and digital channels.

• Excellent organisational and project management experience

• Proven experience in building promo campaigns across social media

• Strategic mindset with an eye for spotting promo opportunities

• An understanding of how budgets work, scope of work and realistic deliverables. 

• Work well under pressure at all times – both alone and as part of a team.

• Passionate about music and popular culture.

• Flexible and able to prioritise own workload. 

• Software experience with Photoshop and video editing software such as Premiere, excel/ Google sheets - a bonus. 

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 jobholder's 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.

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 jobholder's 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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Marketing, Streaming & Digital Media