Job Description
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
Bravado is the only global, 360-degree full service merchandise company that develops and markets high-quality licensed merchandise to a world-wide audience. The company works closely with new and established entertainment clients, creating innovative products carefully tailored to each artist or brand.
Product is sold on live tours, via selected retail outlets and through Web-based stores. Bravado also licenses rights to an extensive network of third-party licensees around the world. The company maintains offices in London, Los Angeles, New York, Berlin, Paris, Tokyo and Sydney. Under the Universal Music Group umbrella, Bravado is able to leverage a global sales and distribution network from the world’s largest record company, as well as the group’s significant marketing strength.
The principle objective of this position is to provide full administrative support to the production department, with a dotted line to the finance department to ensure smooth interaction between both teams.
The B Side: Skills & Experience
Be Organised
- Front-to-end management of all aspects of the touring roster from club-sized tours to stadiums
- Produce pre-tour budgets for departmental approval showing profitability
- Day to day management of active tours including stock management, logistics and financial reporting
- Analyse data to help develop product ranges and sizes depending on the artist and venue
- Recruit and manage road staff and process POs for road wages and expenses
- Collaborate with international teams and stakeholders on inventory when a tour moves territory
- Ensure freight partners are receiving correct CI information and instructions
- Manage the warehouse to ensure inventory is accurate for stock reconciliations
- Complete end-of-tour checks timely and accurately to settle with the artists within the agreed timeframe
- Be the tour merchandise point of contact for management, TM, PM, Promoter, Agent and Venues
- Maintain administrative trackers and documents
Be Collaborative
- Ongoing communication with road staff on a daily basis
- Liaising with internal Brand Management, Supply Chain, Product Development and Finance in the UK and US
- General additional ad hoc duties where required
Person Specification
Necessary
- Excellent attention to detail
- Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage own workload
- Ability to work top deadlines and keep calm under pressure
- Intermediate Microsoft office skills, specifically Word, Excel and Outlook
- Excellent communication skills
- Ability to work in a team
- Solutions orientated with the ability to use initiative and solve problems
- Ability to develop and maintain strong working relationships with colleagues and stakeholders at all levels
- Can do approach to challenges
Desirable
- An understanding of the touring music merchandise business
- A passion for live music
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)
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.