Strategist, Artist Insights & Strategy

Music is Universal

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UMGs Global Insight team manages the most powerful and effective data sets and research capabilities in the music industry. As well as utilising sales commercial / partner data and social media analytics the Global Insight team manages extensive consumer data from around the world delivering unique detail into evolving attitudes and behaviours of todays music consumers.

Global Insight is a 15 staff team with presence in London New York and Los Angeles. This role is based in London reporting directly to Senior Manager Artist Insights & Strategy (based in London).

The Artist Insights & Strategy team leads strategic insights and research for Universal Music Groups esteemed record labels and business units. Our department supports marketing commercial and A&R label teams for a range of international artist brands; from emerging acts to global superstars to catalog acts. Beyond research that informs artist campaigns & marketing our team is also focussed on thought leadership pieces identifying broader trends in the media and marketing landscape that can help our artists innovate and stay ahead of the curve.

A key focus of this role will be to support a selection of labels under UMG spanning multiple genres (pop hip hop / rnb country latin k-pop etc.). A passion and broad knowledge of artists & music across the board is key.

• On a day-to-day basis you will be researching and tracking the audience of our artists dissecting artist brands to uncover their unique DNA and exploring audience perceptions and engagement across key markets to derive actionable insights
• Involvement in projects from start to finish offering analytical and consultative support. There will be a heavy focus on data analysis and artist brand exploration

Be fanatical about music and pop culture with an ability to speak confidently about artists & music

Think beyond the data and layer insights with creative and strategic thinking in order to build exciting and meaningful narratives

Present to teams across the business directly influencing release campaigns marketing strategies and the media planning process

• Social analytics (proven experience with social listening tools; tracking brand sentiment and unearthing actionable insights from this data)
• Creator culture (deep understanding of the short form video landscape and experience analysing trends and subcultures across Tik Tok Reels and Shorts)
• Qualitative research (focus group / interview set-up recruitment spec development discussion guide writing moderation etc)
• Comfortable with large data sets with an ability to bring data to life in an intelligent and compelling way (storytelling is key).
• Conducting analysis using multiple data sources and bringing these together to form a cohesive narrative (e.g. streaming data commercial / sales data social media analytics cultural trends desk…