Catalogue Transition Manager

We are UMG, the Universal Music Group. We are the world’s leading music company. In everything we do, we are committed to artistry, innovation and entrepreneurship. We identify and develop recording artists and songwriters, and we produce, distribute and promote the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful music to delight and entertain fans around the world.

The core values that comprise Universal Music Group are Authenticity, Boldness, Creativity, Connection, Drive and Insight. These values are the essence of our people which makes UMG the most renowned company in the music industry.

A Day in The Life

The Catalogue Transition team oversees the global transition of music catalogues from 3rd parties to UMG (Catalogue Onboarding) and the coordination of music catalogue loss of rights to 3rd parties (Catalogue Offboarding). The team is responsible for the initiation, ingestion, review and delivery of repertoire to digital and physical retailers, ensuring smooth migrations by maintaining the integrity and accessibility of the repertoire while coordinating with all relevant UMG departments and external stakeholders. The key objective of the team is to ensure that any new catalogue and/or label is distributed out to the market accurately, and up to current industry and artistic standards. The group looks to drive industry standards by supplying high-quality materials for offboarding music catalogues to 3rd parties.

As the Catalogue Transition Manager, you will be responsible for ensuring that a high standard of metadata and assets are captured in our supply chain systems through the collation, review, clean-up and timely scheduling within UMG Digital Supply Chain in support of UMG owned and 3rd party labels globally. This is a vital function as it informs, supports and entrusts that our metadata and assets are complete and correct for all of our partners, both internal and external.

You will utilise your strong interpersonal skills to build and maintain solid relationships with both the team and key internal and external stakeholders to help facilitate the delivery of time dependent, business critical projects.

Skills & Experience

Be Analytical

• Ensure successful onboarding of catalogue by providing detailed support in the collection, analysis and manipulation of assets (e.g. audio, video, artwork files)
• The ideal candidate will be an expert at analyzing large data sets using Excel, and highly skilled at understanding new or complex data with a view to actioning in relevant UMG systems
• Support in-house conversions and ensure all assets meet UMG technical specifications
• Be proactive in the investigation of asset-related issues to ensure smooth delivery and project completion
• Coordinate bulk ingestion and scheduling exercises with central teams and execute punctual upload and scheduling tasks into UMG systems when required
• Consolidate release scheduling information and guide stakeholders on appropriate scheduling plans
• Monitor deliveries to business partners, troubleshoot delivery issues and ensure alignment with partner requirements

Be Organised

• Manage daily workloads by assessing business priorities in a timely manner (i.e. being aware of project milestones)
• Ability to work effectively under pressure, multi-task and be highly flexible to meet all deadlines
• Ability to synthesise queries and questions and liaise with appropriate key stakeholders to provide effective timely solutions
• Ensure that complex issues are acknowledged, and progress updates are provided to line manager

Be Collaborative

• Proactively raise and discuss issues/themes with team members and line manager
• Act as a subject matter expert in the context of catalogue onboarding projects

Essential:

• Strong understanding of digital asset management, metadata structures and delivery specifications
• A working understanding of a product lifecycle within the music industry and the metadata requirements necessary to support that
• Be proficient in using Excel to manipulate data
• Quick learner: Experienced in being able to quickly understand new business information systems and processes
• Solutions-oriented with a positive attitude and strong work ethic and have an impeccable attention to detail
• An analytical mindset to challenge existing processes and seek out new solutions to existing issues
• Ability to work closely with other team members while, at the same time, taking responsibility for personal workload
• Excellent communication, reporting and trouble-shooting skills
• Excellent time keeping
• Highly motivated / self-starter, with a proactive approach
• Strong organisational skills and an ability to complete deliverables on time
• A passion and knowledge of music and new technologies

Desirable:

• Previous experience working in digital supply chain, metadata operations and/or digital production
• A working understanding of XML and in particular DDEX standards
• Be proficient in a second language

Interested? Please follow the link to submit your application today!
Note: Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted.

About us:

Universal Music Group (UMG) is the world leader in music-based entertainment, with a broad array of businesses engaged in recorded music, music publishing, merchandising and audiovisual content in more than 60 countries.

Featuring the most comprehensive catalog of recordings and songs across every musical genre, UMG identifies and develops artists and produces and distributes the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful music in the world. Committed to artistry, innovation and entrepreneurship, UMG fosters the development of services, platforms and business models in order to broaden artistic and commercial opportunities for our artists and create new experiences for fans.

UMG's catalog is marketed through two distinct divisions, Universal Music Enterprises (in the U.S.) and Universal Strategic Marketing (outside the U.S.). UMG also includes Universal Music Publishing Group, one of the industry's premier music publishing operations worldwide and Bravado, the leading provider of consumer, lifestyle and branding services to recording artists and entertainment brands around the world.

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