<p> Here at Sony Music Entertainment, we are shaping what's next in a way that creates impact. Forging powerful new ideas at the heart of music, technology, and culture that entertain and move people.  This is your opportunity. Part of a global community, united by individual passion, rising to that challenge every day. Adapting at pace and supporting one another, inspired to influence the future. For the benefit of you, our people; our creators, our business, and wider society too. This is your chance to shape your impact on Sony Music and beyond.<br /> <br /> The Strategy & Insight department at Sony Music is focussed on leveraging data to support decisions across the business. The team focus on several different methodologies including market share analysis, primary research, social research and partner analytics, combined to give us a rich understanding of key topics. Our goal is to make Sony Music the most audience-centric, data-informed music company.<br /> <br /> Being a central team, this is a brilliant opportunity to work across a huge breadth of different strategic and artist projects whilst learning about and utilising different research and analytical methodologies to help teams across the business. You will be an integral part of the team helping coordinate and support the Strategy & Insights team, helping on daily reporting and with day-to-day requests from our marketing teams. A good literacy of the music landscape and music consumers will go far in this role!<br /> <br /> Please note: This application form cannot be saved part-way through. We recommend preparing your answers in a separate document and then copying them into the form when you're ready to submit. If you'd like to take additional time to complete your application, please ensure you gather your responses externally before submitting in one go.<br /> <br /> If you have any reasonable adjustment requests, please reach out to recruitment.support@sonymusic.com.<br /> <br /> Role Overview:<br /> <br /> Ways of Working<br /> <br /> • Office attendance: Mandatory office attendance on Tuesday, plus 2 other days (total 3 days per week in the office)<br /> • Flexibility: There is be flexibility which can be discussed with the line manager on the other 2 days you are in the office depending on workload and team projects<br /> • Offsite working: There are no offsite working opportunities in this role<br /> <br /> What you'll do:<br /> <br /> • Support the commercial strategy team on daily / weekly reporting needs<br /> • Work alongside the S&I team responding to requests on artist audiences and strategic projects<br /> • Create presentations and trend reports to help convey findings and recommendations to the business<br /> • Support with the management and analysis of tasks on our youth culture audience panel<br /> • Manage the team's reports and outputs, uploading them to our online portal<br /> • Support the team with a wide variety of ad hoc projects and label workshops<br /> • Opportunity to learn SQL & Snowflake as well as the various primary research approaches<br /> <br /> Who you are:<br /> <br /> Essential<br /> <br /> • Prior experience of manipulating basic data in Excel & PowerPoint is essential as this is a major area of support required<br /> • You may have had experience of using statistical packages such as SPSS, SAS, eViews or languages like SQL<br /> • Good understanding of the music streaming landscape, music economics<br /> • A love of music is essential! We're lucky enough to work across all the labels at Sony so a varied taste and appetite for immersing in different genres and scenes is essential<br /> <br /> Nice to have<br /> <br /> • Detail orientated - findings need to be precise and accurately reflect the data<br /> • Problem solving mentality and an inquiring, diagnostic mind - not all our questions come with ready-made solutions, so you need to be able to think problems through<br /> • Great communicator - you will need to be able to clearly communicate findings to colleagues<br /> • Personable, with a passion for understanding people and music, culture (''high'' and ''low'') and the dynamics of social media and the online landscape<br /> • A keen eye for design and presentation<br /> <br /> What we give you:<br /> <br /> • An annual salary of £28,480 (London Living Wage)<br /> <br /> • You join a vibrant global community with the opportunity to channel your passion every day<br /> • A modern office environment designed for you, empowering you to bring your best<br /> • Investment in your professional growth and development such as focused workshops and a dedicated mentor, enabling you to thrive in our vibrant community<br /> • The space to accelerate progress, positively disrupt and create what happens next<br /> • We give you the platform to champion positive change, with the opportunity to contribute to our social impact, diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives<br /> • We provide an excellent range of benefits like private medical cover, a generous pension scheme, life assurance, income protection, plus loads of music industry perks. There's also time off over winter break<br /> <br /> Process Overview<br /> <br /> • Applications open August 10th at 10:00 and close August 24th at 10:00. Candidates whose applications are selected will be invited to complete a video interview between September 28th and October 3rd.<br /> • Candidates who pass this stage will then be invited to the final stage of the process, an in-person assessment centre in early November. We will send further information on this stage before the date arrives.<br /> • Successful applicants will start in January 2027.<br /> <br /> We are committed to providing an accessible recruitment process and encourage you to let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments throughout the process by contacting this email: recruitment.support@sonymusic.com.<br /> <br /> Equal Opportunities<br /> <br /> As an active part of a culturally and socially diverse society, Sony Music's aim is that our workforce is diverse and inclusive. Sony Music is an equal opportunity employer and supports workforce diversity.<br /> <br /> We employ, retain, promote and otherwise treat all employees and job applicants according to their merit, qualifications, competence and talent. We apply this policy without regard to any individual's sex, race, religion, origin, age, sexual orientation, marital status, medical condition or disability.<br /> <br /> Privacy Policy<br /> <br /> Please click here to read our privacy policy before beginning the application process as you will need to agree to the terms of the policy before submitting your information.<br /> <br /> Please note that applicants must be at least 18 years of age.<br /> <p id='jobcode'>Jobcode: Reference SBJ-pkxpbo-104-22-24-159-42 in your application.</p> </p>