Senior / Sales Manager, SEA

Universal Music Group; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Universal Music Group in Singapore seeks a Senior Sales Manager to drive aggressive new business growth across Southeast Asia. You will own the regional sales target, build a pipeline from scratch, open new doors, and convert opportunities into revenue.

You will lead client presentations, manage forecasting, and report pipeline visibility to the Regional GM in Hong Kong. The ideal candidate has 7+ years of sales success, a proven ability to own a territory, and fluency in English plus an

Qualifications

• 7+ years of sales experience with a track record in new business development.
• Hunter mentality with ability to own a territory and drive revenue.
• Ability to build and manage a robust sales pipeline and generate leads.
• Excellent presentation, communication, and negotiation skills.

Responsibilities

• Own and deliver the sales target across Southeast Asia.
• Build pipeline aggressively and consistently with a focus on new business.
• Identify, pursue, and close new revenue opportunities across markets.
• Lead client presentations, pitches, and commercial proposals with confidence.
• Maintain pipeline discipline, forecasting accuracy, and sales.metrics.
• Operate with urgency in a high-pressure, target-driven environment.
• Provide regular reporting and market feedback to the Regional GM in Hong Kong.

Skills

Sales experience

New business development

Pipeline management

Presentation skills

Negotiation

Forecasting

English fluency

Multilingual (SEA language)

Job description

We are UMG, the Universal Music Group. We are the world’s leading music company. In everything we do, we are committed to artistry, innovation and entrepreneurship. We identify and develop recording artists and songwriters, and we produce, distribute and promote the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful music to delight and entertain fans around the world.

Universal Production Music, part of Universal Music Group, is the largest and leading production music company in the world. We are hiring a high-impact Senior/ Sales Manager in Singapore to drive aggressive new business growth across Southeast Asia.

Our core values of Authenticity, Boldness, Creativity, Connection, Drive, and Insight are the essence of our people, making UMG a renowned company in the music industry.

About the role

This is a role for a true sales hunter. The successful candidate will own the number across Southeast Asia, build pipeline from the ground up, open new doors, and convert opportunities into revenue. We are looking for someone highly driven, resilient under pressure, sharp with sales figures, and excited to represent the strongest brand in production music globally.

What you will do

• Own and deliver the sales target across Southeast Asia.
• Build pipeline aggressively and consistently, with a strong focus on new business generation.
• Identify, pursue, and close new revenue opportunities across markets and sectors in the region.
• Lead client presentations, pitches, and commercial proposals with confidence and impact.
• Maintain strong pipeline discipline, forecasting accuracy, and sensitivity to sales performance metrics.
• Operate with urgency and resilience in a high-pressure, target-driven environment.
• Provide regular reporting, pipeline visibility, and market feedback to the Regional GM in Hong Kong.

What we are looking for

• Minimum 7 years of sales experience, with a strong track record in new business development.
• Proven hunter mentality with the drive to chase, win, and close new business consistently.
• Experience owning a territory, regional target, or commercial number with accountability for results.
• Strong ability to build pipeline, generate leads, and convert opportunities into revenue.
• Excellent presentation, communication, and negotiation skills.
• High commercial awareness and strong sensitivity to sales figures, conversion, and forecasting.
• Fluent English plus one additional Southeast Asian language.
• Willingness to learn a new industry quickly; music licensing experience is a strong plus but not required.

Note: Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted.

About us:

Universal Music Group (UMG) is the world leader in music-based entertainment, with a broad array of businesses engaged in recorded music, music publishing, merchandising and audiovisual content in more than 60 countries.

Featuring the most comprehensive catalog of recordings and songs across every musical genre, UMG identifies and develops artists and produces and distributes the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful music in the world. Committed to artistry, innovation and entrepreneurship, UMG fosters the development of services, platforms and business models in order to broaden artistic and commercial opportunities for our artists and create new experiences for fans.

UMG's catalog is marketed through two distinct divisions, Universal Music Enterprises (in the U.S.) and Universal Strategic Marketing (outside the U.S.). UMG also includes Universal Music Publishing Group, one of the industry's premier music publishing operations worldwide and Bravado, the leading provider of consumer, lifestyle and branding services to recording artists and entertainment brands around the world.