Licensing Intern

Universal Music Group

Sep 9, 2023

Applications are closed

Internship
Full-time
Off-cycle Internship
Business, Operations & Strategy
London

Requirements

Excellent organisation skills – ability work on several projects at any one time.
Proven experience of working to strict deadlines.
Excellent IT Skills – must be proficient in Microsoft Word & Excel.
Proven ability to remain calm under pressure
Understanding of music and content licensing.
Good communication skills - experience of working cross functionally with different teams and at different levels.
Highly self-motivated, capable of using own initiative, and the ability to deal with the routine tasks as well as the more interesting aspects of the role

Responsibilities

The A Side: A Day in The Life:
Reporting into the Senior Licensing Manager helping support key accounts such as NOW That’s What I Call Music and other 3rd Party Labels, working in an overall team of seven. You will be working across all Universal labels and key departments within the group including Marketing and Business Affairs.
A successful candidate will have strong communication, IT and interpersonal relationship skills, be proactive with strong attention to detail, with the ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously. They will have the ability to work independently under time constraints to deliver results. They must be confident at communicating via email and working on deep, research-intensive administrative tasks.
The B Side: Skills & Experience:
Be Collaborative:
Coordinating licenses for UK & EIRE
Working closely with Legal & BA to issue music licence agreements to new and existing music labels, negotiating and agreeing payment terms
Liaising with artist’s management with the view to obtaining permission to use Universal Music UK tracks for licensing projects
Working closely with Licensing colleagues and Product Managers, Catalogue to effectively clear repertoire in line with key project timescales – this will involve working to tight deadlines
Liaison daily with internal music divisions at all levels including Legal & BA, Global Royalties, UMR, UMG Artists & Management, Third Party Labels & all internal UMG Labels
Manage strong relationships with external third party (major and independent) labels
Extensive knowledge of UMG repertoire and licensing rights
To carry out any other reasonable instruction as directed by the Senior Licensing Manager
Be Administrative:
Updating and maintaining records of cleared projects so if a problem or question with that project arises, details will be easily accessible
General administrative duties, including filing finished projects in alphabetical and numerical order
Helping Universal employee’s world-wide to determine rights for tracks and helping with any other queries that arise

Universal Music Group

We are Universal Music Group, the world’s leading music company.

Entertainment & Media

Industry

5001-10,000

Employees

1934

Founded Year

Mission & Purpose

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.