Senior Data Analyst, Artist Insights
Universal Music Group
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Description
UMG’s Global Insight team manages the most powerful and effective data sets and research capabilities in the music industry. As well as utilizing sales, streaming and other commercial data, the Global Insight team manages extensive consumer survey data from around the world, delivering unique detail into evolving attitudes and behavior of today’s music consumers.
Global Insight is a 15 staff team, with presence in London, NY and LA. This role is based in NY and will require close integration with the data teams in London and LA, supporting the Artist Insight team. The candidate will report directly to the Artist Insight Director.
The Artist Insight Team delivers in-depth artist brand analysis, campaign recommendations and trend information to marketing executives, informing artist brand development, media buying, marketing campaigns and commercial strategy of music releases.
We are currently seeking a Data Analyst to run complex queries and analysis on UMG’s commercial and sales data, as well as other data sources, to support Artist Insight projects.
Job Functions:
• Your role will be to take broad business questions, develop engaging briefs and translate them into a clearly structured approach.
• Drive projects from start to finish: define the data needed, conduct the analysis and come up with conclusive answers and specific strategic recommendations.
• Perform analysis on large sets of structured commercial data on a daily basis, to identify actionable recommendations for the business and for artists.
• Come up with new ways to look at data, creating new frameworks of data analysis and interpretation for the business. Innovate on an ongoing basis.
• Apply contextual knowledge about artists and the music industry in your commercial data analysis and interpretation.
• Understand and communicate the implications of the changes in the music landscape in the data analysis interpretation.
• Work closely with the Data / Analytics teams in N.Y and L.A., ensuring you are up-to-date and involved with the data analysis initiatives developed across the business.
• Collaborate with fellow analysts across UMG’s US record labels to drive forward best practices in data querying and analysis methodologies.
• Identify opportunities to develop analysis, providing pro-active suggestions and innovating on an ongoing basis.
Job Requirements:
Skills/Abilities:
• Technical competence to perform advanced analytics:
• Strong database analytics and data extraction (SQL) skills are essential, ideally gained in a large data warehouse environment. Ability to write well structured, performance SQL using advanced SQL techniques (e.g. Window Functions where appropriate.)
• Experience with column storage databases in general, and particularly Google BigQuery, would be an advantage. An understanding of performance tuning is desirable
• Data visualization (e.g. Tableau, Domo, Google DataStudio)
• Statistical modeling (R/Python), segmentation building would be a plus
• Deep understanding of numbers, as well as a strong business sense.
• Ability to explain complex topics in simple terms. Can translate numerical findings into recommendations.
• Team worker, can-do approach.
• Passion for music is essential.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment where continuous innovation is the rule.
Experience:
• At least 2 years of experience of experience in a similar data analyst/strategist role, preferably in an entertainment/ tech company.
Education:
• Degree in science, computer science, statistics, economics, mathematics, or similar quantitative discipline.
Universal Music Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Disclaimer
This job description only provides an overview of job responsibilities that are subject to change.