Data Manager

at  Universal Music Group

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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The A Side: A Day in The Life
Based in London, Los Angeles and New York, Mercury Studios is a music first content studio established to develop, produce, globally distribute and invest in innovative, music-rooted storytelling. Editorial independent from Universal, we work with a global network of creatives and artists in the areas of premium factual Film & TV, concert capture and performance led content, shortform and audio. We are filmmakers in the world of music.
Alongside our original content, Mercury Studios represents the world’s leading catalogue of music-related content, consisting of thousands of hours of premium music-driven film and television programming. Our Distribution and Content Sales team has over 20 years of experience of licensing music-driven content to buyers worldwide, from global platforms to national broadcasters, theatrical and emerging platforms like FAST.
Bringing these areas together we are uniquely placed to produce powerful projects which are editorially sound and reach global audiences. Our projects have received Academy, BAFTA, Emmy, Grammy Awards and extensive festival wins.
This multidisciplinary role will support the Commercial Finance function and the VP of Catalogue, Operations and Technology in making raw data accessible and usable to help mercury studios solve problems and grow. The primary responsibility is to transform data via robotic process automation, implement data flows and develop business intelligence reports to help meet the company’s commercial objectives. The reporting will contain charts, graphs, diagrams, and dashboards to represent trends and predictions, with the ability to explain insights to a variety of audiences. This includes technical and non-technical teams.
The B Side: Skills & Experience

Be Data-Driven

• Transform raw data into useful and actionable insights
• Gather data from various sources and analyse patterns
• Build and maintain data pipelines and databases
• Create data validation methods and analysis tools
• Implement data flows for analytics and business intelligence (BI) systems
• Support and assist with the execution of our data strategy

Be Technical

• Develop BI and visualisations
• Set up robotic process automations and workflows to improve business processes

Be Collaborative

• Work with stakeholders and other data engineers to build solutions

Person Specification

Necessary

• Cloud certification (AWS/GCP/Azure) or mastery of data platforms (BigQuery/Snowflake)
• Experience using data visualisation tools (Google Looker Studio - PowerBI)
• Commercial experience and financial literacy to help businesses grow and succeed
• Experience with machine learning and robotic process automation
• The ability to work collaboratively with others to share ideas and find solutions
• Experience communicating findings and insights to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Expertise in creating a wide range of visualisations and graphs
• Proficiency in programming languages and knowledge of data management tools, such as relational databases and data lakes
• A deep understanding of SQL and analytical data warehouses
• Hands-on experience with data pipeline tools
• Knowledge of data security principles and confidentiality
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Strong data modelling skills
• The ability to collect, organise, analyse, and disseminate large amounts of information
• A strong foundation in mathematics and statistics, and experience using statistical packages
• Strong communication skills
• The ability to think critically and creatively to solve complex problems using data
• Attention to detail and accuracy

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
• 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 Intelligenc

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