Onboarding Metadata Manager – Kings Cross, London

Music is Universal

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The A Side: A Day in The Life

The Special Projects team is responsible for the initiation, development, and management of catalogue onboarding and offboarding across Universal Music Group globally, closely supporting key stakeholders by coordinating projects to see them through to their completion in a timely manner. The key objective of the team is to ensure that a new catalogue and/or label is distributed out to the market accurately, on time, and set up to industry and artistic standards or to collate a catalogue for offboarding to a 3rd party.

As an Onboarding Metadata Manager, you will be responsible for ensuring that a high standard of metadata is captured in our repertoire systems through the collation, review and clean-up in support of our UMG owned and 3rd party labels globally. This is a vital function as it informs, supports and entrusts that our metadata is 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.

The B Side: Skills & Experience

Be Analytical

Be Organised

Be Collaborative

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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 seen as indicative and not as a permanent, definitive, and exhaustive statement.

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