Job Specifications
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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UMUK value e-Commerce as a key foundational channel to connect artists and fans. This is an exciting opportunity to join the team to develop, implement and execute ecommerce strategies for UMUK artists. These campaigns will have a truly global impact and help to build and monetise audiences and drive international ecommerce revenue for our artists and ultimately help break UK talent globally.
This is a fast paced and challenging role. Pivotal in helping to manage and co-ordinate international ecommerce campaigns for a focused roster of UK artists, specifically with a remit of breaking artists and maximising revenue from our global stores.
This role will work directly across frontline labels, international marketing and central teams and our local ecommerce teams. You will co-ordinate the artists commerce strategy, managing the flow of key campaign information and briefing and co-ordinating global ecommerce campaigns across music and merchandise. Specifically, the successful candidate will work cross functionally with key leads across the Direct to Fan organisation, including the Direct to Fan leads, local ecommerce managers, international marketing managers and local store operations teams and our international labels.
Key Job Pillars & Focus
D2C / Ecommerce - overall responsibility for Universal UK signed artists D2C and ecommerce platforms globally – working with territories, repertoire owners (labels), central commercial teams and other key stakeholders within the business to launch, maintain, optimise and our UK signed artists ecommerce campaigns.
Merchandise - manage international range plans, options and schedules – building the offering of merch for our artists within our stores globally as part of rounded campaigns.
Asset Management - share and manage all assets for international set up of store and mailers with markets alongside other logistical elements (e.g linkfire) to ensure smooth campaign launches & optimisation throughout each campaign.
Opportunity – part of the role will include a focus on creation of further opportunities within markets to increase sales within the ecommerce front – as an example but not limited to - pre-order for pre-sale campaigns on launch, working with third parties to drive traffic to stores & working with markets on other retail offerings outside of the D2C space.
Insight & reporting – reporting back on ecommerce campaigns and opportunities within UMG UK is an important part of the role – this includes but not limited to performance, revenue and best practice changes.
Project Management / Co-Ordination
Lead - act as the international eCommerce lead for UMUK, maintaining a deep understanding of key international territory requirements, local chart rules and key market trends.
Internal Process – be the central commercial representative for our UK Artists within the international team – liaising with relevant commercial and central leads internally in UMG UK, and with our markets and partners globally.
Develop and oversee the launch of new artist stores across international markets, working with label ecommerce teams, local marketing and ecommerce operations teams to oversee timely builds and launches as well as maintenance and growing current stores.
Working collaboratively with our frontline labels, you will use your music eCommerce, commercial and merchandising experience to formulate & execute D2C international commerce strategies to drive sales.
Retail Development – the role is not restricted to D2C – the role requires focus and development of other retail opportunities across music product and merchandise, for launch, ongoing campaigns and driving pre-orders.
Scheduling - manage UMUK ecommerce release schedule with local markets, highlighting priorities and mana
About the Company
Universal Music Group (UMG) is the world leader in music-based entertainment, with a broad array of businesses engaged in recorded music, music publishing, merchandising and audiovisual content in more than 60 countries. Featuring the most comprehensive catalog of recordings and songs across every musical genre, UMG identifies and develops artists and produces and distributes the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful music in the world. Committed to artistry, innovation and entrepreneurship, UMG fosters the d...
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