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.
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 [email protected].
The A Side: A Day in The Life
Reporting into the Senior Partner Manager (SPM) this is a key role supporting two of UMGs most business-critical partners, working in an overall team of five people including the HMV Partner Manager (PM) working closely with labels and providing commercial administrative support to the HMV / Amazon teams.
The B Side: Skills & Experience
Be Operational
- HMV Release Schedule – preparation and submission
- Setting up Deals and Terms as required
- Supplying artwork and managing label approvals for all marketing for HMV – ads & graphics
- Supports preparation and submission of weekly consignment pricing file
- Weekly store visit followed with written in store summary document v plan
- Managing pre-order report
- Assist SPM with Stock
- Providing pack shots & sales info to HMV
- Hmv.com – check all information is present & correct and manage any out of stocks
- Full responsibility for liaising with labels and setting up all pre-orders on hmv.com
- Assisting the SPM with managing the returns process end to end
- Assisting SPM with set up and execution of all in-store Pas
- Ownership of weekly stock-on-hand reporting & report any issues to PM
- New release order management process
- Working with the partner managers to manage the set up and processing of all Retros and Markdowns
- Assist PMs with managing the returns process end to end
- Using Amazon Vendor Central system for agreements, co-ops and general reporting
- Manage all product changes on Amazon and assist with set up of all pre-orders in conjunction with the account
- Liaising with key label personnel to collate all key product & promo information for PMs
Be Analytical
- Setting up and analysing campaign sales trackers
- Liaise with account to resolve any stock or on-site issues on a daily basis
- Campaign reporting & analysis
- Monitor new release orders (actual vs proposed) & report back to PM
Be Administrative
- Submitting a monthly catalogue listing & deletions list to HMV
- Preparation of weekly wrap-up document to circulate to key label personnel
- Updating retail marketing document weekly
- Full responsibility for setting up and payment of HMV Retros and Markdowns
- Collates and distributes weekly EPOS Document
- Manages the weekly EPOS Report for Amazon tracking against market
- Updating the weekly sell-in document
- Setting up deals on internal systems
- Assisting manager with ad hoc reporting requirements
Person Specification
- Hungry, flexible and organised self-starter eager to provide flexible approach and work quickly through day to day worklists and meet deadlines
- Computer literate, with skills in all Microsoft Office products (must be proficient to good standard in Excel) & Business Objects or similar. Familiarity with Mac OS also an advantage
- Proactive, Curious, self-motivated individual
- Highly numerate
- Good communication skills, both written and verbal
- Good inter-personal skills, confident dealing with people
- 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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Universal Music Group
www.universalmusic.fr
Paris, France
Pascal NEGRE
$100 to $500 million (USD)
501 to 1000 Employees
Company - Private
Audio/Visual
1997