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.
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The A Side: A Day in The Life
The A&R Administration team is a central function at the heart of Universal Music UK; the quiet engine behind the creative process, supporting our artists and label teams by handling the essential details that bring music to life. Each person in the team brings a sharp eye for detail, a deep understanding of music industry operations, and a calm solution focused mindset.
Coordinating the seamless delivery of music from studio to release, the Junior A&R Administration Manager will assume administrative responsibility for releases across their allocated in-house label, ensuring process is followed with full alignment to UMG’s administration strategy and standards.
The B Side: Skills & Experience
Be administrative
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Central point of contact for all A&R Admin in relation to domestically signed artists.

• Maintain musician consent forms and Recording Information forms as part of Producer delivery requirements, for all recordings.
• Close daily liaison with artist managers on all aspects.
• Attend weekly scheduling meeting and occasionally, label or planning meetings.

Be Operational
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Co-ordinate allocated recording projects from start to finish overseeing every aspect.

• Organise logistics for a recording session, from writing sessions to booking mastering.
• Negotiate competitive rates and deal terms around album production including producers, mixers, musicians, engineers, studios, equipment, remixes and mastering.
• Issue deal memos / agreements for producers/mixers or remixers, highlighting points of precedent for discussion with Head of A&R Administration.
• Oversee the artist travel to recording sessions booked by A&R Assistants.
• Co-ordinate audio archiving process, ensuring all audio is delivered, logging all masters with the audio storage facility.
• Run recording budgets per Artist agreement, requesting increases via the Finance Director.
• Work closely with A&R Managers updating them on budgets, deal negotiations and audio deadlines.
• Obtain artist management approval on all spends/recording and release activities.
• Prepare for bi-monthly in-depth A&R Finance meeting, presenting figures.
• Create projects and logging budgets in UniPort once approved, paying supplier invoices on time, while monitoring overall recording budget spend.
• Monitor release schedules, supervise label copy collation and R2 metadata input, and ensure Artist approval on label copy.
• Co-ordinate A&R input for the initiation process on each release on the schedule, working closely with the Marketing assistants.
• Pre-empt unscheduled production deadlines to ensure timely delivery of repertoire, communicating timelines to A&R team and troubleshooting issues or potential delays
• Co-ordinate delivery of audio for physical, digital, atmos releases to production within Universal standards of format delivery
• Supervise the issue of all remix agreements and parts distribution by A&R Assistants, advising them in this process. Ensure all remix budgets updated accordingly.

Person Specification
Necessary
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A proven track record within a similar role

• A strong ability to negotiate and problem solve
• Excellent IT skills; must be proficient in Word, Excel and Outlook
• Proven experience of working to strict deadlines and excellent organisational skills
• Experience of working on own as well as part of a team
• Experience of working with colleagues at all levels
• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to, and experience of, remaining calm in a sometimes-pressured environment
• Committed and flexible

Desirable
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A knowledge of Uniport and R2 is beneficial
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:
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• A strong ability to negotiate and problem solve
• Excellent IT skills; must be proficient in Word, Excel and Outlook
• Proven experience of working to strict deadlines and excellent organisational skills
• Experience of working on own as well as part of a team
• Experience of working with colleagues at all levels
• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to, and experience of, remaining calm in a sometimes-pressured environment
• Committed and flexibl