Analyst, Digital Identification (Hybrid)

Broadcast Music, Inc.•Nashville, TN

5d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Analyst, Digital Identification provides business intelligence, quality assurance, and technical support for BMI’s quarterly performance identification production cycle. The role uses data from multiple sources, customized applications, reporting tools, and other data assets to support accurate music performance identification and royalty distribution. The analyst works with teams across Distribution, Analytics, and IT to execute technical workflows, analyze identification results, troubleshoot issues, and identify ways to improve accuracy, efficiency, and identification rates. The position also supports data ingestion and preparation, maintains dashboards and reporting, documents procedures, and communicates findings to leadership to help guide priorities and resource planning. It requires curiosity about data and technology, careful execution, sound judgment, and an interest in music and the music industry.

Requirements

One to two years of related experience or familiarity with an operational or processing role is preferred.
Effective written and verbal communication skills.
Proficient keyboard and PC skills.
Basic familiarity with Excel, Access, and SQL.
Ability to perform in a fast-paced, changing, detail-oriented work environment.
Effective decision-making skills, including determining when and how to escalate problems or questions.
Ability to organize and prioritize work.
Ability to interact professionally with others at all levels.
Ability to work in a team or independently with minimal supervision.
Initiative and good problem-solving ability.
Passion for music.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s degree in a related field preferred.
Knowledge of the music industry or active participation in the music community highly preferred.
Foreign language skills helpful but not required.

Responsibilities

Schedule and execute supplementary auto-identification scripts, analyze their results, and identify potential algorithmic refinements or approaches to improve identification yield and rates.
Execute market-specific workflows using customized applications to cleanse, format, and extract usage data for identification and distribution; assess opportunities to reengineer processes using newer technologies.
Generate and deliver reports using non-identification data assets, such as charting works information, pending work registrations, and third-party data, to assess identification priorities.
Coordinate technical tasks for quarterly close processes with departmental management and IT, and assist with troubleshooting.
Maintain knowledge of systems, procedures, and decision-making best practices through training; create and update Standard Operating Procedures documentation.
Coordinate with IT on ingestion of production and analytical data from licensees and data vendors.
Cleanse and format data offline for new or non-compliant sources whose music-use information is not ready for identification and distribution.
Maintain BMI’s Digital Audio Distribution Dashboard (DADD), identify consumption and identification-rate trends, and work with Senior Data Analysts to evolve it as business needs develop.
Generate and analyze established KPI reports for non-digital markets, including terrestrial radio, live concerts, airlines, and commercial background music services.
Synthesize and communicate findings to departmental leadership to support prioritization and resource planning.
Execute established quality assurance routines and analyze results to detect variances and potential processing or data-quality issues.
Collaborate with the supervisor, departmental leadership, and the Analytics team to develop quality assurance reports that improve accuracy and efficiency.
Perform other duties as assigned and maintain regular attendance.
Support BMI Core Values and cultivate a culture of diversity and inclusion.