Project Manager: Mercury Live 9 month FTC

Job Description

Job Title: Project Manager: Mercury Live 9 month FTC
Responsible to: VP Mercury Live
Department: Mercury Live
Location: 4 Pancras Square, Kings Cross

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 email [email protected]

The A Side: A Day in The Life

Powered by the legendary Universal Music Group, Mercury Studios is a multi-faceted music content studio, established to develop, produce, globally distribute, and invest in authentic, music-rooted storytelling across a range of media including film, television, podcasting, publishing and digital.

We are proud to foster experimentation and work with both emerging and established artists from around the globe.

Mercury Live’s Project Manager is responsible for delivering the wide-ranging digital experiences the team works on. Whether it’s a livestream of a new record or an immersive audio-visual experience, you’ll work with a range of partners from marketing managers to ticketing experts, driving projects through from ideation to reality. This is an ever-growing role, and you’ll have the opportunity to shape an industry in its infancy.

Some examples of previous projects:

• Sam Smith - Live at Abbey Road Studios
• Aurora - A Touch of The Divine
• Glass Animals - Live in the Internet

The B Side: Skills & Experience

• Monitor the market for digital events, identifying the trends and content that are igniting audience engagement. Monitor trends in related industries – for example sport, theatre, fashion
• Manage the Mercury Live preferred suppliers list by identifying key players in production and the emerging new platforms that audiences are responding to. Staying close to technology innovations, both in the UK and US

Account Management: From conception to delivery

• Work closely with the production team to assist the running of the overall project on the day/s of filming through to delivery - involved both on location and at the office
• Interface with the UMG commercial team on opportunities for brand sponsors and commercial partners for our events. Manage relationships on a project-by-project basis, working with them to identify KPIs and ensuring campaign objectives are met
• Day-to-day account management of Mercury’s digital events – including relations with all partners - ticketing agent, platform, label - ensuring a smooth process from conception through to reconciliation
• Advising on and sharing event assets, pricing, marketing plans, tickets sales, projections, and other information to key stakeholders
• Financial planning – working with Head of Finance to build P&L and communicating with the label to sign off business plan. Ensuring production have the agreed budget and supporting with tracking / monitoring, and reconciliation
• Understanding/will to learn of the technical requirements for all aspects of hosting a digital event - ensuring that chosen platform meets the requirements for artist
• Working with VP, Mercury Live, on contractual agreements including negotiations, deal structure, contract development and ultimately the delivery of the contract
• Dictate and manage all deadlines, communicating timelines to external and internal teams
• Working with Digital team to ensure content protection/piracy
• Drive post event analysis and insight to best shape future strategic thinking with key stakeholders/partners, Creating and distributing post event reports

Person Specification

• Experience working on cross functioning projects or events
• Previous ticketing experience helpful but not essential
• Experience implementing global marketing campaigns
• Knowledge of Microsoft Suite/Apple (particularly excel/ppt/keynote)
• Strong written communication skills
• Ability to create decks, case studies and other materials
• Ability to interpret and present data
• Entrepreneurial spirit
• A clear passion for music & future technologies
• Ready to get stuck into a wide range of projects

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 available
• 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 indicative and not as a permanent, definitive, and exhaustive statement.