Universal Music Group & Brands is the dedicated brand agency of Universal Music Group, creating innovative and tailor-made business solutions for brands. We use Music & Entertainment to create innovative and differentiated customer propositions for our brand partners to help them grow their business by their turning customers into fans.
We are currently looking for a Junior Brand Partnerships Manager to integrate into the Global Brand Partnerships Team in charge of closing deals with global brand partners, handling agency relationships and developing growth & monetizing strategies for UMGB.
This candidate will primarily focus on supporting the Global Brand Partnerships Director in answering briefs from global brands and agencies, but also on long-term, strategic projects inherent to the success of UMGB.
Assist the Global Brand Manager & Global Brand Director on answering global brand and agency briefs.
Build & own a sales pipeline alongside the rest of the team.
Prospect for new brand & agency contacts.
Pitch & present to qualified leads and existing clients.
Prepare CRM reports & updates on sales activity for senior management.
Answer briefs from global brands by analyzing market reports and large data sets to come up with a strategic recommendation.
Work hand-in-hand with cross-functional teams including data & insights, creative, media buying, legal & label relationships to answer briefs.
Create clear, compelling presentations with PowerPoint and/or Keynote to formulate response to brand briefs and to thought leadership conferences.
Manage the Global Brand Partnerships Intern.
Identify revenue opportunities within or outside UMG by devising new business models around under-monetized assets and/or create new products.
Design go-to-market strategies to implement the new opportunities identified.
Pitch and present new proposals to senior internal and external stakeholders.
Support global UMG stakeholder’s local teams with large-scale initiatives pertaining to activities strategic to the group (e.g., influencers, live, classical music…).
Provide ad-hoc resource to local UMG teams on cherry-picked initiatives.