Senior Manager, Insights and Strategy
Universal Music Group, Inc.
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Santa Monica • California, Pennsylvania • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $85,500 - $216,975 per year
Job Level
Senior
Tech Stack
SQLTableau
About the role
- Independently translate open-ended business challenges into structured analyses, insights, and actionable recommendations across product strategy, merchandising, marketing, forecasting, audience research, and more
- Build clear narratives that resonate across a wide range of stakeholders—from creatives to executives to technical partners
- Develop and refine scalable data models, dashboards, templates, and planning frameworks that improve decision-making for internal teams and label partners
- Identify inefficiencies, gaps, data issues, or recurring pain points; design solutions that reduce manual work and increase quality
- Develop trusted cross-functional relationships with label teams, creative stakeholders, operational leaders, and technology groups
- Act as a strategic thought partner, leveraging insights and business intel to push work forward and elevate decision quality
- Guide and mentor analysts, overseeing the quality, clarity, and impact of their work
Requirements
- 3–5+ years in analytics, business strategy, consulting, eCommerce, media/entertainment, data product, or similar data-driven roles
- Experience leading workstreams, managing stakeholders, and mentoring analysts
- Demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally in fast-paced environments
- Strong strategic & analytical acumen
- Technical competency across SQL querying (intermediate to advanced)
- Excel (pivot tables, modeling)
- Data visualization (Tableau, Looker, Data Studio, or similar)
- Basic understanding of finance, marketing, operations, or business performance levers
- Project management excellence with comfort juggling multiple deadlines.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and FSA options
- 100% coverage for out-patient mental health services
- Wellbeing reimbursements for fitness classes, spa treatments, meal services, travel, and so much more (up to $720/year)
- A lifetime fertility support allowance of $30,000 to plan participants
- Student Loan Repayment Assistance and Tuition Reimbursement
- 100% immediately vested 401(k) match on the first 5% of your contribution on eligible compensation
- Flexible Paid Time Off (PTO) for exempt employees
- 3-weeks PTO for non-exempt employees
- 2-weeks paid Winter Break
- 10 Company Holidays (including Juneteenth and Wellbeing Day)
- Summer Fridays (between Memorial Day and Labor Day)
- Generous paid parental leave for every type of parent
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Hard skills
SQLExceldata visualizationTableauLookerData Studiodata modelinganalyticsbusiness strategyeCommerce
Soft skills
strategic acumenanalytical acumenstakeholder managementmentoringcross-functional collaborationcommunicationproblem-solvingdecision-makingrelationship buildingproject management