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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. 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. 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! 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. If you have any reasonable adjustment requests, please reach out to [email protected] . Role Overview: Ways of Working Office attendance: Mandatory office attendance on Tuesday, plus 2 other days (total 3 days per week in the office) 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 Offsite working: There are no offsite working opportunities in this role What you'll do: Support the commercial strategy team on daily / weekly reporting needs Work alongside the S&I team responding to requests on artist audiences and strategic projects Create presentations and trend reports to help convey findings and recommendations to the business Support with the management and analysis of tasks on our youth culture audience panel Manage the team’s reports and outputs, uploading them to our online portal Support the team with a wide variety of ad hoc projects and label workshops Opportunity to learn SQL & Snowflake as well as the various primary research approaches Who you are: Essential Prior experience of manipulating basic data in Excel & PowerPoint is essential as this is a major area of support required You may have had experience of using statistical packages such as SPSS, SAS, eViews or languages like SQL Good understanding of the music streaming landscape, music economics 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 Nice to have Detail orientated – findings need to be precise and accurately reflect the data 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 Great communicator – you will need to be able to clearly communicate findings to colleagues Personable, with a passion for understanding people and music, culture (“high” and “