Sync Junior Manager, Licensing

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 turn dreams into stardom and audiences into fans. We are guided by three core values that underpin everything we do across all our diverse businesses:

• Curiosity: We do our best work when we’re immersing ourselves in culture and breaking through barriers. Curiosity is the driving force behind creativity and ingenuity. It fuels innovation, and innovation is the key to our future.
• Collaboration: Making music and bringing it to the world is all about the power of originality amplified by teamwork. A great idea, like a great song, travels globally. We ignite passions and build connections across our diverse community of artists, songwriters, partners, and fans.
• Commitment: We pursue excellence for our team and our talent. Everything in music starts with a leap into the unknown, and we’re committed to keeping the faith, acting with integrity, and delivering on our promises.

WMG is home to a wide range of artists, musicians, and songwriters that fuel our success. That is why we are committed to creating a work environment that actively values, appreciates, and respects everyone. We encourage applications from people with a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences.

A little bit about our team:

We’re a close-knit team of music-lovers, highly encouraging of each other and keen to impress our artists. We partner with a wide range of media companies to influence and secure sync placements for our huge roster of music. We work across the entire Warner Music recorded catalogue, from superstars through to breaking-artists. As sync placements now include anything from the latest Netflix show through to branded social media posts, we have our work cut-out, to understand who, what, when, why and where the next exciting placement will come from.

Your role:

You’ll be working closely with external clients, the UK advertising creative team, Business Affairs, Finance teams to ensure the smooth running and processing of sync deals for our artists. You’ll be working across the entire Warner Music roster, whether that be frontline releases from the most exciting upcoming talent to legendary artists behind some of the biggest songs known the world over, you’ll be at the forefront of securing sync opportunities within the advertising sector for our artists.

Here you’ll get to:

• Be responsible for the processing of advertising sync clearances for Warner artists across the whole roster, which will involve negotiating, licensing and invoicing of sync deals within the UK advertising sector.
• Provide admin support to Senior Director of Sync and VP Sync, EMEA.
• Collaborate closely with our Legal and Business Affairs team to provide up to date rights information to the UK sync team.
• Work with our Finance teams to ensure smooth and efficient payment of sync invoices.
• Monitor market trends and ensure our business is tracked so we stay ahead of the curve.
• Grow with your role and be encouraged to move our business forward.

About you:

• You will have an incredible attention to detail and be good with numbers.
• You will be able to manage time and work under pressure.
• You will have at least 3 years experience within a sync licensing role and be familiar with the UK advertising side of sync.
• You are passionate about music and media.
• You enjoy working within a team environment.
• You will communicate exceptionally.
• You enjoy the administrative side of the sync business.

We’d love it if you also had:

• Experience working at a label, publisher, music supervision company before.
• Experience working with artists and management companies before.
• Experience negotiating, clearing, closing deals in the advertising space.

This position requires a minimum of 4 days per week in the office. We value in-office collaboration, which is essential for talent development and strong working relationships.

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, religion or belief, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or gender reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, disability, pregnancy, childbirth or any other characteristic protected by law.