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.

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

Reporting to the Director of CRM, this role drives the CRM strategy within the label, planning creative,innovativeand engaging campaigns, effectivelygrowingand targeting artist audiences, and championing the CRM channel to the wider marketing teams and external stakeholders.

• Developingcreative and innovative ways to increase engagement anddrive newsign upsacross allPLGartist CRM touchpoints

• Work collaboratively with thewider CRM team, briefing campaign setups,managing priority artistworkloadsandsharing knowledge and best practices

• Create campaignsstrategies for artist and label CRM audiences, utilisingnew technologiesand developments in CRM systems

• Build our super fan audiences with regular engagement and rewards

• Work closely with the eCommerce & Label Marketing teamsto increase CRM driven revenues.

• Collaborate with international counterparts on global campaign strategiesfor domestic and international acts

• In-depth data analytics to produce monthly performance reports & campaign analysis for both the label andit’sartists

• Grow thePLGlabel mailing list, ensuring regular communications and database growth, supporting artist campaigns and the evergreen stores

• Producingadhocand regular reporting and campaign activity as needed

• Be the keeper of fan data compliance underGDPR and data protection guidelines.

• Nurture and grow new CRM channels and opportunities

The B Side: Skills & Experience 

• Proven experience working in CRM, Fashion/Entertainment or in a Digital Agency managing multiple accounts

• Capable of managing and effectively segmenting global databases

• Knowledge of best practice CRM campaigning and ability to create engaging,creativeand innovative CRM campaign plans with a focus on driving data acquisition and increasing conversion on our artist stores

• Awareness of current trends withinCRMand retention marketing, with experience in mobile messaging and interest in exploring new CRM technologies

• Knowledge of privacy requirements and restrictions under GDPR

• Experience working with enterprise level CRM systems, deploying campaigns, pulling reports, planning consumerjourneysand analysing audiences

• Able to productadhocand regular reports of CRM campaigns, managing multiple reporting datasets in Excel, LookerStudioand internal reporting systems

• Confident in creating and delivering presentations on campaign plans and performance

• Proven experience planning and executing campaign testing, analysing the results to produce best practicerecommendationsand implementing findings

• A good working knowledge of Google Analytic tools, tracking parameters & analysis.

• Excellent ITskillsincluding competency across all Microsoft packages, especially Excel andPowerpoint

Desirable

• HTML coding skillsand imageediting

• Experience working on CRM automations triggered from Ecommerce platforms e.g. Shopify

• Understanding of CRM within the music industry space with experience in digital campaigning for artists

• Experience using project management software e.g. Monday.com or Trello

• Experience running lead generation campaigns with paid media teams, measuring ongoing ROI from new subscribers driven

Person Specification

• Excellent attention to detail

• Flexible and able to prioritise own workload

• Ability to work in afast pacedenvironment, supporting multiple stakeholders

• Strong interest in consumer marketing and exploring innovativenew technologies

• Good communicationskills, able to present ideas and work collaboratively with the marketing,audienceand Ecommerce teams

• Interest in music with a knowledge of current trends and Universal Music roster

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

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.

Job Category:

Marketing, Streaming & Digital Media