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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States · On-site
$86k–$120k/yr
Senior$8.6B raised
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Full-time
Posted 14d ago
~40 hrs/week
Remote in Malaysia
Responsibilities
The Catalogue Transition Manager oversees the global onboarding and offboarding of music catalogues, ensuring metadata and asset integrity within UMG's supply chain systems. They coordinate with internal and external stakeholders to facilitate smooth migrations and ensure all repertoire meets industry and artistic standards.
Requirements
The ideal candidate possesses a strong understanding of digital asset management, metadata structures, and delivery specifications, along with proficiency in Excel for data manipulation. They must be a self-starter with excellent organizational skills, a proactive approach to problem-solving, and a passion for music and new technologies.
Full job description
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.
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.
Universal Music Group's labels include A&M Records, Astralwerks, Blue Note Records, Capitol Christian Music Group, Capitol Records, Capitol Records Nashville, Caroline, Decca, Def Jam Recordings, Deutsche Grammophon, Disa, Emarcy, EMI Records Nashville, Fonovisa, Geffen Records, Harvest, Interscope Records, Island Records, Machete Music, MCA Nashville, Mercury Nashville, Mercury Records, Motown Records, Polydor Records, Republic Records, Universal Music Latino, Verve Label Group, Virgin Records, Virgin EMI Records, as well as a multitude of record labels owned or distributed by its record company subsidiaries around the world. 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. Universal Music Group is a Vivendi company.
Find out more at: http://www.universalmusic.com.
View our current career opportunities at: http://www.umusiccareers.com
Offices: 2220 Colorado Avenue, Santa Monica, California 90401, US · Hilversum, NL · 1755 Broadway Ave, New York, NY 10018, US · 21301 Burbank Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 91367, US · 2220 Colorado Ave, Santa Monica, CA 90404, US
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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.
Universal Music Group's labels include A&M Records, Astralwerks, Blue Note Records, Capitol Christian Music Group, Capitol Records, Capitol Records Nashville, Caroline, Decca, Def Jam Recordings, Deutsche Grammophon, Disa, Emarcy, EMI Records Nashville, Fonovisa, Geffen Records, Harvest, Interscope Records, Island Records, Machete Music, MCA Nashville, Mercury Nashville, Mercury Records, Motown Records, Polydor Records, Republic Records, Universal Music Latino, Verve Label Group, Virgin Records, Virgin EMI Records, as well as a multitude of record labels owned or distributed by its record company subsidiaries around the world. 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. Universal Music Group is a Vivendi company.
Find out more at: http://www.universalmusic.com.
View our current career opportunities at: http://www.umusiccareers.com
Offices: 2220 Colorado Avenue, Santa Monica, California 90401, US · Hilversum, NL · 1755 Broadway Ave, New York, NY 10018, US · 21301 Burbank Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 91367, US · 2220 Colorado Ave, Santa Monica, CA 90404, US
Music and entertainmentSocial MediaGamingRoboticsAppsSoftwareMusical InstrumentsMusicAudio Recording and ProductionVideo