Job Description

Marketing & A&R Assistant, Rhino (3 Month Temp Contract)
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At Warner Music Group, were a global collective of music makers and music lovers, tech innovators and inspired entrepreneurs, game-changing creatives and passionate team members. Here, we turn dreams into stardom and audiences into fans. We are guided by three core values that underpin everything we do across all our diverse businesses:
xe2x97x8f Curiosity: We do our best work when were immersing ourselves in culture and breaking through barriers. Curiosity is the driving force behind creativity and ingenuity. It fuels innovation, and innovation is the key to our future.
xe2x97x8f Collaboration: Making music and bringing it to the world is all about the power of originality amplified by teamwork. A great idea, like a great song, travels globally. We ignite passions and build connections across our diverse community of artists, songwriters, partners, and fans.
xe2x97x8f Commitment: We pursue excellence for our team and our talent. Everything in music starts with a leap into the unknown, and were committed to keeping the faith, acting with integrity, and delivering on our promises.
WMG is home to a wide range of artists, musicians, and songwriters that fuel our success. That is why we are committed to creating a work environment that actively values, appreciates, and respects everyone. We encourage applications from people with a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences.
Consider a career at WMG and get the best of both worlds an innovative global music company that retains the creative spirit of a nimble independent.
Job Title: Marketing & A&R Assistant, Rhino (3 Month Temp Contract)
A little bit about our team:
Rhino is the xe2x80x98home of great music. For the past 40 years the label has been synonymous with quality, innovation and expert curation. The label is home to Warner Musics amazing catalogue releases, covering some of the biggest names in music from David Bowie to Aretha Franklin, Fleetwood Mac to Pink Floyd, The Smiths to Prince.
Your role:
This role will allow you to work closely with various teams to curate and market new physical and digital releases. Creating a strong working relationship with the Production, Commercial, Finance, Global Catalogue, Asset Library, Audience and Engagement, Merchandise, and E-Commerce teams will be key to succeeding in the role. Youll also be working with artists, managers, streaming platforms, and external suppliers that specialise in delivering creative services.
Youll be working with all the major retail and media platforms, including Spotify, Amazon Music, YouTube, and Apple Music and TikTok, with the freedom to build your own initiatives to drive streams of this incredible catalogue.
Here youll get to:

• Work closely with the rest of the Marketing & A&R team and assist on all aspects of an artist marketing campaign across our roster of artists. Providing support from ideation and planning, all the way through to execution and beyond.
• Support on both physical and streaming campaigns across both traditional marketing and digital. Responsibilities include assisting on the physical release process, generating organic marketing ideas, briefing in social/creative assets, assisting on artist copy for socials/mailers, arranging meetings and agendas.
• Provide assistance on supporting streaming pitch processes to Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, TikTok, and YouTube.
• Put together content plans for artist social media accounts
• Implement marketing plans and measure the effectiveness of these plans through regular analysis of streaming data
• Work effectively with other teams and departments i.e. commercial, production, international marketing
• Create Purchase Orders for all marketing and digital marketing related activations. Ensuring these are assigned to the correct project and accounted for in the related budget.
• Keep up to date and communicate all marketing developments, new technologies and competitors marketing campaigns.
• Assist A&R & marketing directors in the discovery and evaluation of potential new catalogue acquisitions and re-origination projects, including market research, and trend analysis.
• Coordinate all administrative aspects of A&R projects, including maintaining databases, tracking project timelines, and managing budgets.
• Research and identify potential creative collaborators (e.g., remixers, producers for new versions) for catalogue projects.
• Manage the clearance process for samples, interpolations, and other third-party content for catalogue reissues and new originations.
• Liaise with the sync and licensing teams to identify opportunities for catalogue placements.

About you:

• A passion for music across a variety of genres.
• Experience with record labels in an A&R and marketing capacity, E-Commerce teams, physical product curation, and supply chain operations.
• Great organisation skills and the ability to prioritise workload, goals, targets, time, and to work independently and proactively.
• Attention to detail with great communication and multi-tasking skills.
• Motivation to build relationships with a wide range of internal and external contacts.
• Strong computer skills, especially with MS Office. Photoshop knowledge is a bonus.
• Excellent knowledge/interest of the UK music market and fully understand the latest product innovations and consumer trends in the current landscape and developments within the music industry.

We'd love it if you also had:

• An understanding of our roster of catalogue and frontline artists.
• Have studied Business, marketing, promotions, but not necessarily in music.

About us:
As the home to 10K Projects, Asylum, Atlantic Music Group, East West, FFRR, Fueled by Ramen, Nonesuch, Parlophone, Rhino, Roadrunner, Sire, Warner Records, Warner Classics, and several other of the worlds premier recording labels, Warner Music Group champions emerging artists and global superstars alike. And our renowned publishing company, Warner Chappell Music, represents genre-spanning songwriters and producers through a catalog of more than one million copyrights worldwide. Warner Music Group is also home to ADA, which supports the independent community, as well as artist services division WMX. In addition, WMG counts film and television storytelling powerhouse Warner Music Entertainment among its many brands.
Together, we are Warner Music Group: Independent Minds. Major Sound.
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WMG is committed to inclusion and diversity in all aspects of our business. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and will evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, religion or belief, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or gender reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, disability, pregnancy, childbirth or any other characteristic protected by law.