Catalogue Manager

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.
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.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 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.
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
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
Act as a subject matter expert in the context of catalogue onboarding projects
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
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
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)

Therefore, the job description should be seen as indicative and not as a permanent, definitive, and exhaustive statement.