Sales Assistant

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 emailUniversalMusicCareers@umusic.com

The A Side: A Day in The Life

Universal Production Music is Part of The Universal Music Publishing Group a leading global music publishing company, home to the greatest artist, songwriters and son catalogues. Universal Production Music 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 and an industry leader.

Your role, as Sales Assistant is to support the Sales Team and its function and your line manager the Head of Sales in these endeavours.

The B Side: Skills & Experience

Be Technical

• Design database applications, such as interfaces, data transfer mechanisms, global temporary tables, data partitions, and function-based indexes to enable efficient access of the generic database structure
• Design databases to support business applications, ensuring system scalability, security, performance and reliability
• Review and or Develop data models for applications, metadata tables, views or related database structures
• Design and Develop extract load and transform (ETL) and Database design for data warehouse
• Develop or maintain backup processes, archived procedures, procedural codes, or queries for applications
• Develop and document database architectures
• Develop database architectural strategies at the modeling, design and implementation stages to address business or industry requirements
• Demonstrate database technical functionality, such as performance, security and reliability
• We expect everyone on our team to present creative solutions to our technology problems

Be Collaborative

• Assisting in preparing and delivering drive solutions to clients
• Supporting the new business function by assisting with lead generation including the sourcing, collating and following up of leads
• To support the sales team in building excellent relationships with clients
• Assisting in the planning and preparation for any parties, events or tradeshows
• Assisting with travel arrangements for the team
• Assisting with follow up resulting from client meetings, events or tradeshows
• Assisting in planning, implementing and driving all aspects of Universal Production Music’s sales & marketing strategy.
• To support in the management of our client database and to ensure that all data is entered in a timely way and records are always up to date
• To support in providing a first-class service to clients for which Universal Music is known
• To contribute as part of a team to marketing and promotional ideas for client initiatives
• The support the Head of Sales contributing to the team’s commercial goals and to key projects and initiatives undertaken to develop and grow the business

Be Organised

• Providing appropriate follow up for every registered user
• Ensuring speedy registration of users to our sites
• Attend all relevant departmental meetings

Be Knowledgeable

• Responding to queries related to our website, hard drive or other tools
• Advising clients on licensing and rates

Person Specification

Necessary

• Experience working in production music, publishing, a record company or related business
• A keen interest in production music or film & TV licensing
• A genuine interest and knowledge in a wide variety of musical styles
• Ability to manage time and work to tight deadlines efficiently
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Must be articulate, personable, have an eye for detail, organised, numerate, a self-motivator with team-player mentality
• Proactive, showing initiative with an inquisitive/curious and willing nature
• Strong technical background – knowledge of MAC & PC functionality, audio file types or equivalent
• A team player – measuring success by the whole team’s performance
• Organised, calm under pressure. You will be a ‘can do’ person, somebody who sees challenges instead of problems
• Comfortable juggling multiple responsibilities
• Enjoys taking ownership and accountability
• A good sense of humour

Desirable

• Interest in digital media
• Interest in new and emerging technologies
• A good eye for design
• An ability to create well-written material

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.