Overview
Job title: Digital Partnerships Intern
Responsible to: Head of 3rd Party Sales & Label Partnerships
Department: Commercial & Creative Services
Location of work: 4 Pancras Square, Kings Cross
Music is Universal
It’s the passionate and dedicated team at Universal Music UK who help make us Britain’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 3rd Party Intern will be a key part of Universal Music’s Central Commercial Division – supporting across both the Digital and Physical team releases, with a range of tasks to ensure the smooth flow of information from UMG’s frontline record labels & 3rd Party labels to key external business partners. They must be proactive and have excellent attention to detail, as well as being able to prioritise tasks and recognise where a level of expediency is needed. They must have good communication skills both written and verbal. They will be working across many different areas of the business with key stakeholders and should therefore be able to work as part of a team with a can-do attitude.
The B Side: Skills & Experience
Digital Partnerships Support
Support the 3rd Party Team across all key UK digital streaming partners and regularly liaise with Commercial/Streaming and Marketing teams within both Universal & 3rd Party labels
Manage and maintain Digital Release Schedules to ensure they are always up to date and accurate, both internally and external partner-facing documents
Consolidate long term priority schedule for internal use and reference
Support labels by collating and distributing advanced links for upcoming release marketing
Collate listening links for unreleased music and share with trusted business partners
Work with labels on image/asset management for partners
Run/update data/analytics reports to support ad-hoc partner analysis and regular projects for the Digital Partnerships team
Attend partner meetings with labels
Creating updates on current releases for both DSP and Physical partners
Point of contact for smaller streaming partners, with support from 3rd Party Team
General admin support to the Digital Partnerships Team on day-to-day activities
Physical Retail Team & Business Support
Compile and distribute weekly Chart documents
Compile data on physical album pre-orders and Spotify/Apple pre-save/pre-add numbers for internal reports
Update and distribute Competitor Schedule on weekly basis.
Compile an all-label schedule, liaising with labels to gather most up-to-date release information, dates, forecasts, and other information
Compile partner album performance summaries ahead of labels meetings for reference in each label meeting
Helping across all admin tasks
Ad-hoc support across all members of the team
Person Specification
Computer literate, with skills in all Microsoft Office products (especially important is good level on Excel) & Business Objects or similar
Proactive, self-motivated individual
Commercially aware & highly numerate
Good, proven communication skills, both written and verbal
Good inter-personal skills, confident dealing with people issues and requesting action
Methodical individual with excellent organisation and time management skills
Proven ability to work as part of a team
Desire to learn new technologies, process, applications
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.
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Digital Partnerships Intern