Commercial Projects Coordinator, Universal Music Group
12-Month Fixed-Term Contract
Music-based entertainment
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Music-based entertainment
1001+ employees
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1001+ employees
Company mission
To shape culture through the power of artistry.
Role
Who you are
- Proven ability to multitask and manage project timelines across multiple disciplines
- Schedule and coordinate meetings, calls, and updates
- Maintain campaign calendars and ensure visibility of project status across the team
- Keep track of budgets and report on spend where relevant
- Conduct data-driven analysis across markets, sales, and performance metrics
- Generate insights and visualisations to inform strategy and decision-making
- Interpret data to drive continuous improvement across campaigns
- Foster strong working relationships with internal stakeholders including global commercial teams and labels
- Coordinate cross-departmental efforts to deliver integrated commercial campaigns
- Identify and respond to new trends in digital and physical media
- Contribute innovative ideas for curation, campaigns, and brand growth
- Support creative storytelling across UMG’s catalogue and marketing activities
- Excellent organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- High attention to detail and proactive work ethic
- Calm and adaptable under pressure
- Experience using social and digital media platforms (Instagram, TikTok, etc.)
- Competence in analysing and presenting data
- Advanced Excel skills
- A genuine passion for music with strong catalogue repertoire knowledge
What the job involves
- Universal Music Group is looking for a detail-oriented and proactive Commercial Projects Coordinator to support the Commercial Projects team within the Commercial Affairs division
- This team operates at the intersection of digital curation, physical product strategy, marketing, and brand management, driving commercial success across both physical and digital platforms
- In this role, you’ll coordinate a wide range of projects—from managing vinyl and CD campaigns to curating playlists, supporting brand communications, and liaising with international teams on thematic campaigns and analytical reporting
- You’ll need to be an adaptable multitasker who can balance operational efficiency with creative problem-solving, and a natural collaborator who thrives in a fast-paced, music-led environment
- Create and maintain vinyl and CD price campaign sheets
- Create campaign themes and explore commercially viable products to sell across retail & e-commerce
- Manage approval workflows and determine pricing for new campaign titles
- Run and analyse sales data for physical campaigns
- Track canvass responses across markets, ensuring timely and complete feedback
- Draft and send internal marketing notes for campaigns including product info and assets
- Quality check compilation products in coordination with the delivery team
- Curate and maintain a portfolio of hero playlist products and pitching new playlist and brand concepts
- Collaborate with designers to maintain playlist artwork and deliver monthly Spotify ad asset suites
- Coordinate with social media freelancers to ensure regular, relevant content posting, and manage the creation of social ad assets
- Manage the track priority process across labels, ensuring clear communication and feedback on placements
- Manage social media channels across TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Reddit, Discord
- Manage marketing budgets across labels & markets, coordinating invoices, and measure final performance
- Liaise with markets and support operational processes such as scheduling releases
- Build CRM mailers and support digital communication strategies
- Onboarding digital creators to our internal database, and utilising across campaigns
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Universal Music Group (UMG) was founded in 1998 and it has grown rapidly and steadily since, now establishing a position as one of the "Big Three" record labels (alongside Sony Music and Warner Music Group).
UMG differentiates itself from competitors with its internal links across business functions. Each artist can access the best recording technologies, merchandising services, management services, and live music services, as well as much more. This is not provided by other smaller and even larger companies, meaning UMG is in a unique position to build each artist’s “brand”.
UMG became a publicly traded company in late 2021 and has used funds to finance its international expansion. Valued at over $49.8 billion, this global music leader looks to remain in a strong position for years to come.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
7% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
Santa Monica, CA
Leadership
Lucian Grainge
(CEO & Chairman)Worked in the music business for his entire career. He has been named the most powerful person in the music business on four occasions in the 2010s by Billboard.
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