Job Description

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.

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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.

Digital Customer Engagement Executive

Apple Corps Ltd
Location:Apple Corps Head Office, Ovington Square, London
Working pattern:4 to 5 days per week expected in the office

About the opportunity

Apple Corps Ltd. was founded in 1968 to oversee The Beatles’ creative and business interests. It initially served as the new outlet for The Beatles’ own recordings as well as the music of a wide-ranging roster of artists, all brought to the label personally by the band (individually and/or collectively). Apple Corps’ mission celebrates artistry in an inclusive, creative environment. Since itsinception, the company has encompassed music, publishing, merchandise, electronic and film enterprises.

For almost six decades, Apple Corps Ltd. has helped to bring The Beatles music to billions of fans in pioneering, creative manners, decade after decade.

Apple Corps and Universal Music Group UK are coming together to build a dedicated team focused on shaping the next chapter of Beatles product, ecommerce,retailand customer experience.

This is a rare opportunity to work at the intersection of music, culture, creativity,commerceand fan experience. The Beatlesremainone of the most important and influential creative forces in the world, with a legacy that continues to inspire fans across generations.

This team will create exceptional products,experiencesand customer journeys for Beatles fans globally. From product design and packaging to retail, ecommerce, trading and fan engagement, every touchpoint must reflect the creativity, quality and cultural significance associated with The Beatles.

These roles are employed by Apple Corps Ltd. The Universal Music Group UK Talent Acquisition team will manage the recruitment process in collaboration with Apple Corpsand the wider UMG team When you apply, you will be redirected to the Universal Music Group careers portal, where you willbe requiredtosubmityour application through Workday.

Role purpose

The Digital Customer Engagement Executive willbe responsible formanaging customer data, delivering targeted CRMactivityand supporting customer retention across digital channels.

This role blends analytical insight with hands-on campaign execution, ensuring personalised, high-impact communications that strengthen loyalty, increase customer lifetimevalueand enhance the fan experience.

The role will work closely with marketing, digital, ecommerce,retailand customer experience teams to activate cohesive customer journeys across all relevant touchpoints.

Key responsibilities

Customer data management

• Maintain,updateand organise the customer database.

• Ensureaccuraterecords of purchases, preferences,behavioursand engagement history.

• Supporthigh standardsof data quality, consentmanagementand customer record accuracy.

Customer segmentation

• Analyse customer behaviour to build meaningful segments, including:

• VIP customers

• New customers

• At-risk customers

• Lapsed customers

• High-value customers

• Use segmentation to enable targeted,relevantand effective CRM communication.

Email and direct marketing campaigns

• Plan, build and execute CRM campaigns, including:

• Newsletters

• Product launches

• Promotions

• Event invitations

• Fan engagement communications

• Manage campaign content, scheduling, testing, quality assurance,deploymentand performance reporting.

Lifecycle marketing

• Create and optimise automated customer journeys, including:

• Welcome sequences

• Post-purchase follow-ups

• Re-engagement campaigns

• Win-back journeys

• Birthday communications

• Loyalty-led messaging

• Optimise journeys for engagement, conversion,retentionand customer experience.

Loyalty and retention programmes

• Support the development and management of loyalty schemes, membershipprogrammesor reward-based initiatives.

• Encourage repeat purchases and deepen customer connection.

• Identifyopportunities to improve customer lifetime value and fan engagement.

Customer insights and reporting

• Analyse CRM and campaign data to understand:

• Customer behaviour

• Campaign performance

• Channel effectiveness

• Customer lifetime value

• Retention opportunities

• Provide clear insights and recommendations to improve targeting, content, timing, customerexperienceand commercial performance.

Personalisation strategy

• Use customer data to personalise communications, productrecommendationsand digital experiences.

• Support a right message, right channel, right moment approach to customer engagement.

• Help build more meaningful and relevant fan journeys.

Platform management

• Manage CRM and marketing automation platforms.

• Ensureaccuratesetup, tagging, tracking,segmentationand campaign governance.

• Work with relevant teams tomaintainplatform integrity and effective customer data flows.

Cross-channel integration

• Coordinate CRM activity across:

• Email

• SMS

• App

• Online store

• Retail point of sale

• Social channels

• Support a unified and consistent customer journey across relevant touchpoints.

Compliance and data protection

• Ensure all CRM activity meets GDPR and internal data privacy standards.

• Manage consent, opt-outs, customerpreferencesand secure data handling.

• Ensure customer communications are responsible,compliantand respectful.

Key skills and experience

Customer and dataexpertise

• Strong analytical skills.

• Ability to interpret customer behaviour, engagementsignalsand transactional data.

• Ability to build meaningful audience segments using behavioural, demographic and purchase data.

• Confidence producing insights that influence targeting, content strategy,retentionand customer value growth.

CRM and campaign execution

• Experience planning,buildingand deploying CRM campaigns.

• Experience across email, SMS, apppushor other digital channels.

• Comfortable running test-and-learn approaches, including A/B testing and multivariate testing where relevant.

• Understanding of automated lifecycle journeys, including onboarding,reactivationand retention workflows.

Personalisation and targeting

• Understanding of personalisation principles and customer-level KPIs.

• Ability to support relevant communications across channels.

• Experience supporting dynamic content, data-drivenrecommendationsand targeted customer journeys.

Platform and technical skills

• Experience using CRM or marketing automation platforms.

• Understanding of tagging, tracking, data capture,segmentationand platform governance.

• Comfortable working with dashboards, customer dataplatformsand reporting tools.

Experience requirements

• Experience in CRM, digital marketing, customer engagement, lifecyclemarketingor retention marketing.

• Practical experience managing CRM campaigns from brief to build, deployment and analysis.

• Experience using CRM or marketing automation platforms.

• Demonstrable experience using customer segmentation and behavioural targeting.

• Experience creating or optimising automated customer journeys, such as welcome, reactivation or post-purchase campaigns.

• Experience analysing engagement data and converting insights into practical recommendations.

• Experience working in multi-channel marketing environments, including email, SMS, app,webor social.

• Strong understanding of GDPR, consent capture and preference management.

Desirable experience

• Experience working in retail, ecommerce, music, entertainment, lifestyle,hospitalityor fan engagement environments.

• Familiarity with customer data platforms or journey orchestration tools.

• Knowledge of loyalty programmes or reward-based customer models.

• Experience working with test-and-learn frameworks and incremental value measurement.

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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eCommerce