Warner Music Group: Sync assistant (12 month FTC)

Production Assistant is needed in London, United Kingdom.

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Client: Warner Music Group

Location: London, UK

Contract: 12 Months Fixed Term

About Warner Music Group

At Warner Music Group, we’re a global collective of music makers and music lovers, tech innovators and inspired entrepreneurs, game-changing creatives and passionate team members. Here, we know that each talent makes our collective bolder and brighter. We are guided by four core principles that underpin everything we do across all our diverse businesses:

• Music is Everything: Music is our passion, and we can never get enough. Tastes, trends, and tech will change, but great artists and songwriters will always be our driving force.
• Global Growth, Local Expertise: Music is a global language. Through communication and collaboration, our success can come from anywhere and translate everywhere.
• Innovation and Insight: Pushing the boundaries requires the best information and the boldest imagination. We use both to create the future.
• Empowered by People: Like the artists we serve and the music they make, our differences make us stronger. This is a place where every talent can belong and build a career.

We remain committed to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. We know it fosters a culture where you can truly belong, contribute, and grow. We encourage applications from people of any age, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, religion, ethnicity, disability, veteran status, and any other characteristic or identity. 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.

Your Role

Your day will revolve around supporting the sync team, especially our sync coordinator who handles all our television and film business. Each day will be varied with some of your time taken up with general administrative support, whislt at other times the day will be full of creative tasks, such as playlisting and curating lists of songs. You’ll often work across projects and support the wider sync team, moving between tasks seamlessly and prioritsing based on the needs of the team.

Admin Tasks Include

• Organising team spreadhseets and documents using Microsoft Suite and Google Drive.
• Collecting information from the labels.
• Updating the team with relevant information, e.g. release schedules.
• Work with A&R teams to make sure we have all the latest music for pitching, with the correct metadata.
• Managing our music library on DISCO and sorting out new assets.
• Sending WAVs to clients.
• Collecting unreleased music for playbacks.
• Raising PO’s.
• Updating Warner Hub regularly.
• Organising and maintaining client database.

Creative Tasks Include

• Playlisting.
• Brainstorming ideas for TV shows.
• Trend forecasting.
• Creating interesting mail-outs, using Key-Note/DISCO.
• Helping to come up with new marketing strategies and ways of reaching new clients.

TV & Film Support

Your help with our television and film business and support to the sync coordinator will be important. Day-to-day tasks will include:

• Collating new music and playlisting it with common TV themes & needs in mind.
• Getting to grips with our extensive catalogue and making sure we use it to our best ability, in all areas.
• Learning the complexities of PRS/PPL.
• Becoming familiar with blanket television projects and clients, and assisting with music briefs.
• Research about new television and finding new places to send our music.
• Helping send vinyl to TV & Film clients.
• Building and maintaining new blanket TV library for clients.

Here You’ll Get To

• Build relationships with a range of colleagues across our business and learn about our global organization.
• Support the team in achieving their goals through excellent administration and coordination support.
• Have the chance to get stuck into our huge catalogue of amazing songs, by our award-winning artists.
• Be first-on new releases and make sure we are prioritizing the right deals for our artists.
• Create market-leading promotional tools, to win new business.
• Research new television/film productions and prioritise targets, based on insights.
• Work closely with a close-knit UK team.
• The opportunity to discuss music and help shape the future of our business.
• Opportunities to contribute in team-meetings and at external events.

About You

• A keen interest in TV, film, soundtrack and score.
• Have a passion for the music and entertainment industries.
• Thrive creatively.
• Enjoy being social and meeting new people.
• Operate in a detailed fashion and hardworking.
• Strong IT skills.
• Highly digitally savvy.
• Quick to learn.
• Pro-active and eager to get stuck in with any project, whether big or small.
• Always willing to try and make things work.

We’d Love It If You Also Had

• A greater understanding of sync, either through another role, hobby or personal interest.
• An understanding of the music business and a general understand of music rights.
• Experience using KeyNote, Photoshop, Excel.