Rights Management – Neighbouring Rights Data Coordinator (12 month FTC)

Job title:

Rights Management – Neighbouring Rights Data Coordinator (12 month FTC)

Company

Warner Music Group

Job description

Rights Management – Neighbouring Rights Data Coordinator (12 month FTC)Job Description: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.Job Title: Rights Management – Neighbouring Rights Data Coordinator (12 month FTC)A little bit about our team:Be at the forefront of ensuring that Warner Music Group (WMG) sets the standards for excellence in metadata in the music industry. The Rights Management team sits within Warner Recorded Music Global Operations (WRMGO) group. As a team we oversee all aspects of rights data ingestion, metadata quality, entry and dissemination at WMG. Be part of a team that not only enters, analyses and coordinates data accuracy, but also registers and ensures accurate availability of WMG’s Recorded Music rights worldwide.Your role:This role will primarily involve ensuring all our recording assets comply with various collection societies’ data standards, so WMG can maximise the revenue we receive from public performance. As we continue to integrate with the exciting new global neighbouring rights portal feed, you will also be involved in new processes to analyse the accuracy of our recording assets. This could also involve assisting in testing and optimizing the metadata quality in the feed, suggesting development changes, whilst all the time working confidently with large volumes of data accurately. The role may also involve assisting both the Rights Management team and the Product Data Management teams with other adhoc projects related to rights metadata ingestion, registration, and maintainance.Here you’ll get to:

• Work within the Rights Management team to review asset metadata and request necessary changes to ensure 100% data standard compliance for both neighbouring rights registration purposes, but also for internal and industry standards
• Assist with neighboring rights claim registration and conflict resolution; direct as necessary to the relevant teams to ensure prompt handling
• Collaborate with implementing process changes around management of track analysis, communication flows and metadata compliance as we transition to more affiliates and societies onboarding to RDx
• Manage any required metadata adjustments within our label copy system (GCDM) to ensure proper registration of rights holder informaton
• Build relationships with our global Business Affairs teams to source accurate contractual neighbouring rights obligations
• Build relationships with the Warner affiliates to ensure they enter our repertoire correctly to enable accurate registration
• Provide assistance with GCDM metadata accuracy projects, department wide initiatives and support work for the Rights Management and PDM UK and US teams as necessary

About you:

• You are educated to a minimum A-level standard (with good academic grades)
• You are passionate about being highly organised with an excellent consistent level of accuracy and attention to detail
• You excel in prioritising tasks effectively, and work well under pressure and to strict deadlines
• You are able to take initiative and responsibility over own workload while working within the goals of the team, and as part of a team environment
• You are proactive in seeking out new projects and looking for new ways to maximize our neighboring rights income
• You have experience of managing data and strong analytical skills
• You have demonstrated excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• You are computer proficient in Google Suite applications and spreadsheet applications suchs as Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets

We’d love it if you also had:

• Working knowledge or metadata experience in the neighbouring rights industry and/or recording music industry
• You have demonstrated a track record of consistent and high-quality delivery in a music metadata management environment
• Ability to manage metadata related projects

About us:As the home to Asylum, Atlantic, East West, Elektra, FFRR, Fueled by Ramen, Nonesuch, Parlophone, Rhino, Roadrunner, Sire, Warner Records, Warner Classics, and several other of the world’s 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 catalogue of more than one million copyrights worldwide. Redefining what it means to be a music company in the 21st century, our consumer brands include trend-setters like UPROXX, Songkick, HipHopDX, and EMP. We’re the home to WMX – the next generation services division that connects artists with fans and amplifies brands in creative, immersive, and engaging ways – and Alternative Distribution Alliance (ADA) – the ground-breaking global distribution company for independent artists and labels.Together, we are Warner Music Group: Music With Vision & Voice.Love this job and want to apply?Click the “Apply” link at the top of the page, or apply directly with your LinkedIn. Applying with LinkedIn will import all of the information you put in your profile, but will still allow you to upload a resume and cover letter.Don’t be discouraged if you don’t hear from us right away. We’re taking our time to review all resumes, and to find the best people for WMG.Thanks for your interest in working for WMG. We love it here, and think you will, too.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, religious creed, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, marital status, medical condition as defined by state law (genetic characteristics or cancer), physical or mental disability, military service or veteran status, pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, genetic information or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local law.

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Location

London

Job date

Sun, 23 Jun 2024 01:45:25 GMT

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