🚀 Internship
Commercial Intern
Universal Music Group
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3d ago
🚀 Off-cycle
London
Rolling basis
Description
- 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.
Area of Responsibilities
Business, Operations & Strategy
Responsibilities
The A Side: A Day in The Life
- The Commercial Intern will work alongside the Commercial Manager providing support and assistance to them and the department as necessary.
The B Side: Skills & Experience
Be Administrative
- Collate weekly marketing & production info for Commercial Manager
- Help prepare any documents for weekly meetings – i.e. Streaming reports, OTC, Charts / mid-week reports, pre-order reports, chart markers, competitor schedule, as well as other relevant Sales info reports
- Update and maintain ticketing register
- Update e-Commerce forecasting document
- Collate all detail required for launching D2C album pre-orders and provide assets to Central e-Commerce team
- Assist in the preparation and publish the sales notes for each of the releases
- Collating and preparing weekly pitch documents for streaming partners
- Checking Spotify, Apple Music and other streaming partners’ playlists and streaming data on a daily basis
- Maintain EMI sales schedule and keep the sales team informed of all release date changes
- Ensuring PO’s are raised by the marketing team when required
- Collate weekly updates for Business Partners and monitor profile across these partners
- Order physical stock for the department and monitor physical ship quantities
- Ensure label releases are correctly set up on O.C.C. website
- Send Artwork / Assets etc to Business Partners when setting up pre-orders
Be Collaborative
- Work alongside digital team to provide copy / assets and links for all ticketing and e-Commerce mailers
- Support Commercial Manager in setting up ticketing pre-sales, working with promotors and ticketing agents to maximise sales
- Send regular updates to relevant departments i.e. Marketing, Sales team and label
- Attend regular label and planning meetings with Commercial Manager and take notes and document key information
- Liaise with artists / managers / promoters requiring physical stock
- Send out promo CD’s to indie retailers for each new release
- Assist Commercial Manager when required
- Additional ad hoc duties when required
Requirements
Necessary
- Passionate about music with a desire to progress in the industry
- The ability to learn quickly
- Self-motivated, hard-working and enthusiastic
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Highly organised with the ability to keep calm under pressure
- Flexible and able to prioritise own workload
- Excellent numeracy skills and commercial awareness
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills
- Excellent attention to detail
- Good computer skills i.e.: Microsoft Office, Excel, Word, PowerPoint
Desirable
- Experience of working in an office environment
- Experience using SQL, BigQuery and/or analysing data
- Good Understanding of e-Commerce
- Good understanding of HTML
- Experience working in ‘music’ (personal or professional)
- Desire to work within sales
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)