Junior Music Supervisor

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.
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.
The A Side: A Day in The Life
Universal Production Music, a division of Universal Music Publishing Group, is a leading global production music library, providing music for all commercial content platforms.
Universal Production Music is the world’s biggest production music library and has a heritage that has developed over decades into a diverse and comprehensive catalogue of unparalleled depth and breadth. Its ambition is to maintain its position as an industry leader. We pride ourselves on producing quality music and developing creative ideas to promote our library, composers, labels & innovative tools to our clients.
As a Junior Music Supervisor, your primary job will be to carry out music searches for Universal Production Music clients. You will be someone with a deep love of all music and a good ear for how music works to picture, plus an excellent ability to deconstruct any music brief or task given to you. Whilst confident in dealing with clients and efficient at multitasking you’re also happy to work collaboratively in a fast-paced environment and most importantly be a great character to fit into a tight-knit team.
A big personality is needed to sell a big music library, so we want someone who will be constantly promoting the Universal Production Music UK repertoire and talking up our Music Supervision service. You’ll need to work in collaboration with our Partnerships team to entice our clients to send accurate & detailed music briefs for their upcoming productions.
The B Side: Skills & Experience

Be Creative

• Provide creative, timely and accurate music searches for a wide variety of clients, dealing with musical requests across any style or genre.
• Understand the key role of music within media and how the right track can enhance a client’s production / creative vision.
• Have a broad musical knowledge and a keen interest in learning new trends, styles or genres. Always expanding your understanding and appreciation of our catalogue.
• Update and maintain themed playlists on the website
• Compile relevant music samplers for client/agent distribution

Be Analytical

• Provide analysis, reports, presentations and feedback on client music usage, trends and any other requests as needed.
• Use data to maximise the relevance and effectiveness of our themed playlists.

Be Collaborative

• Liaise with technology teams on reporting and analysis of data. Also, work with our international offices to improve the use of data.
• Proactively promote our very high standard of services to clients with great knowledge of our catalogue, website features and music search service.
• Liaise with internal producers on client feedback and trends
• Supporting Head of Music Supervision on tasks as necessary
• Working with Sales and Marketing teams on numerous activations & projects
• Help organise and attend client events
• Attend relevant UK trade shows
• Attend, keep notes and participate in all relevant departmental meetings

Be Organised

• Be the key point of contact in the office for all incoming queries including answering all phone calls. Responding efficiently to client, agent or composer queries
• Efficiently respond to the LIVE CHAT feature on our website
• Keeping the client database up to date with all requests and queries
• Manage multiple tasks at once and keep the team up to date on progress

Be Commercial

• Proficient understanding of music licensing and advising clients on production music rates, licensing terms, music details and any other queries
• Contribute marketing ideas for client initiatives.
• Assess potential new business opportunities and help exploit our content across various platforms.
• Help implement all aspects of the agreed Marketing / Sales Strategy.

Person Specification

Essential

• Passion for music across a wide range of styles and genres
• Confident in using Excel, project management tools and creating presentations/reports
• Self-motivated and eager to learn
• Experienced in handling multiple projects concurrently
• Good phone manner
• Pro-active and excellent at working to tight deadlines

Desirable:

• Experience with music licensing and/or sync
• Good understanding of our media clients
• Time spent creating or producing music.
• Understanding or interest in the gaming, film or fashion sectors.

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.
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