Manager, Strategic Analytics

Universal Music Group•Santa Monica, CA

1d•$85,500 - $131,000•Onsite

About The Position

Universal Music Group (UMG) is seeking a Manager, Strategic Analytics to join its Strategic Analytics team. The role scopes and executes analytical projects for senior executives and stakeholders across Business Development, Finance, Communications, Marketing, and UMG label groups. The Manager uses large datasets and complex SQL and Excel analyses to develop commercially impactful insights, then communicates findings to decision-makers with varying functions, seniority, and technical expertise. The role also requires understanding, or eagerness to learn, business models shaping digital and subscription-based media. The Manager works consultatively with stakeholders to define goals and analytical questions, builds detailed financial models for scenario analysis in major licensing negotiations, extracts and validates project data, and prepares executive-level presentations to inform UMG-wide strategy. They own complex workstreams with minimal technical oversight and collaborate with junior Strategic Analytics team members on larger projects. Illustrative work includes estimating markets and growth opportunities, modeling licensing negotiations with partners such as Spotify, Apple, and YouTube, forecasting content performance, and analyzing the breakeven point of content-promotion investments. This is an on-site role based in UMG’s Santa Monica office, with an expectation of at least three to four days per week in the office.

Requirements

3–5 years of experience leading complex, multi-stage strategic projects from data collection and analysis through quality checks, final packaging, and presentation.
3–5 years of quantitative experience using SQL and Excel for data analysis.
Bachelor’s degree in Economics, Business Administration, Computer Science, or equivalent years of experience.
Experience building flexible financial models for scenario analysis.
Experience visualizing data and using PowerPoint to explain complex data concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.
Experience managing and engaging with clients in a consultative or analytical capacity.
A track record of building client and/or stakeholder relationships by consistently delivering on their needs.
Experience building relationships across business units.
Ability to balance multiple projects and deadlines.
Comfort using large language models to augment work while thinking critically and independently and maintaining ownership of the output.
Passion and curiosity for music and the data used in the industry.

Nice To Haves

2+ years of experience in consulting, finance, or corporate strategy.
Proficiency in common data analytics programming languages such as Python or R.
Previous experience in entertainment or subscription media.
Experience in economics research.
Experience working with data in an integrated cloud environment such as AWS or Google Cloud.
A keen sense for how high-level statistical or analytical concepts translate into business economics.

Responsibilities

Work consultatively with stakeholders to understand their goals and scope analytical projects that answer important business questions.
Create detailed financial models for scenario analysis in UMG licensing negotiations.
Extract project data using complex SQL scripts and apply strict quality control and sense-checks.
Create executive-level presentations to inform and drive UMG-wide strategy.
Own complex analytical workstreams from start to finish with minimal technical oversight.
Advise stakeholders responsible for new business on potential market sizes and sources of growth.
Develop dynamic models to support licensing negotiations and explain market dynamics in partners’ growth areas.
Create internal methods for forecasting and predicting content performance for newer and older artists.
Conduct breakeven analyses for major content-promotion investment opportunities.
Collaborate with junior Strategic Analytics team members on extensive or longer-term analytical projects.

Benefits

Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
100% coverage for out-patient in-network mental health services.
Fertility coverage for eligible medical plan participants.
Wellbeing reimbursements for fitness classes, spa treatments, meal services, travel, and more, up to $720 per year.
Student Loan Repayment Assistance and Tuition Reimbursement.
401(k) with 100% immediate vesting on the first 5% of employee contributions, plus an additional UMG contribution.
Flexible Paid Time Off for exempt employees.
Three weeks of PTO for non-exempt employees.
Two-week paid Winter Break.
Ten company holidays, including Juneteenth and Wellbeing Day.
Summer Fridays between Memorial Day and Labor Day.
Generous paid parental leave for every type of parent.