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Data Analyst – Kings Cross, London London, England

Universal Music Group

Full Time London, England 25541 - 47500 GBP ANNUAL Today

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 [email protected].

The A Side: A Day in The Life

Since Chris Blackwell first started Island Records in Jamaica in 1959, it has remained one of the world’s most legendary record labels and a coveted destination for new and established artists across genres. Today, Island is home to a varied roster across the US and UK. Its unique ethos has provided the platform for launching some of the biggest and most influential artists across the musical spectrum, including Bob Marley, U2, Grace Jones, Cat Stevens, Amy Winehouse, Florence & The Machine, Mumford & Sons, Catfish & The Bottlemen, Dermot Kennedy, Sigrid, Sean Paul, M Huncho, MEDUZA, Jamie Cullum, The Specials and Ben Howard. More recent additions to the UK roster include FLO, Arrdee, Nia Archives, Unknown T, easylife, The Lathums and Lola Young. From the US, the Island UK team work with some of the biggest global superstars on the planet, including Drake, Ariana Grande, The Weeknd, Post Malone and Swedish House Mafia.

The B Side: Skills & Experience

Summary of the Data Analyst role:

Working within the Streaming team, this is an exciting new role with a focus on Data Analysis of the Streaming landscape, along with optimising the growth of our artists’ audiences. There will also be a requirement to relate consumption trends to forecast artist and track performance for Finance and Forecasting purposes.

Main Duties & Role Overview:

Island requires deep, regular, unprompted analysis of not just our own repertoire but wider market trends and competitor release performance.
Be able to receive tasks and briefs from the rest of the team and action in a timely manner.
Pro-actively educate the label on trends, as well as working on long-term pieces of Analysis.
The format and timeliness when presenting data and analysis to the label is key.
Work on templates and presentations to act as Introductions to the beginning of key artist planning and label meetings, summarising the artists presence online. This would include their presence, engagement and consumption across Socials and Commerce.
Lead on putting together frameworks and templates for the Audience team to be able to analyse and demonstrate Audience metrics including Growth and Engagement.
The way data needs to be presented to the label, our artists and management teams must be using the latest tools and software and be a key differentiator for Island versus our competitors.
Initiative to set own tasks to provide added value to the entire label.
Demonstrate excellent presentation skills to educate findings clearly to the label and management teams.
Collaborate with UMG’s Data Scientist, Insights and Commercial Intelligence Teams to build case studies of consumption behaviour to educate the rest of the label.
Work closely with Fused (our internal digital advertising agency) to measure the effectiveness and optimisation of our paid media vs Consumption.
The analyst will work across and closely with Commerce/Streaming, Audience, Marketing, A&R and Finance.

Person Specification

Personable and actively emerged in music culture and its consumption across multiple channels.
Highly numerate, analytical and results orientated with a clear focus on high quality and business profit.
Excellent presentation skills.
Experience in having to be self-motivated and pro-active in orchestrating and managing key data orientated projects.
Team player with a positive attitude.
Self-motivated, hard-working, and enthusiastic.
Experience in SQL.
Excellent IT skills including competency across all Microsoft packages, especially Excel and PowerPoint or similar.
Diligent and reliable, capable of managing and delivering on multiple projects simultaneously and to a high standard, both autonomously and as part of a team.
Proven ability to make rational judgements from the available information, by demonstrating an inquisitive and analytical approach.
Excellent communication skills, written and oral.
Very familiar with current issues and music-based trends; stays ahead of the game.

Desirable

Good quality presentation skills.
Affiliate program awareness and data management experience
Pro-Active & confident communication skills with all levels of management

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.

Job Category:

Data, Analytics & Business Intelligence

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