We are a society of songwriters, composers and music publishers. We license organisations to play, perform or make available copyright music on behalf of our members and overseas societies, and distribute the resulting royalties to them fairly and efficiently. We promote and protect the value of copyright
An exciting, new opportunity has become available for a Head of Writer Relations within PRS for Music.
The role will define and deliver the best service possible for PRS’s top earning songwriters and composers (and high potential new members), with the aim of acquiring, developing and retaining PRS members. The role will lead and direct the Writer Relations team in a rapidly changing, increasingly competitive international environment.
The Head of Writer Relations will manage our Senior Account Managers in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, as well as our Classical and Dance Account Managers. They will build and maintain excellent relationships with PRS’ top 500+ writer members, as well as with their business managers, accountants and lawyers. They will adopt best practice to achieve business excellence in relationship management and membership retention in order to preserve and protect the top earning segment of writer members.
This new opportunity will allow the successful candidate to lead the Writer Relations team to deliver significant increases in member satisfaction and retain and grow the overall membership to support licensing initiatives and repertoire promotion as defined by corporate strategy. They will continually seek to improve the service PRS provides its members by contributing new and creative ideas and delivering the resulting changes as appropriate.
In addition, the head of Writer Relations will support business transformation and actively contribute to the development of the overall Membership & Rights Group strategy. They will ensure company-wide effectiveness by identifying and exploiting opportunities for joint cooperation and positive relations with all other Business Units and by seeking out synergies, business opportunities and/or best business practices across the international music industry.
The role holder will recruit, lead, develop and motivate the Writer Relations team to ensure effectiveness and maximum productivity in delivering objectives and nurture individual career opportunities. They will set and meet stretching performance targets and operational objectives in support of membership development strategy. Furthermore, they will monitor, review, and evaluate performance of membership development functions to ensure continual improvements through the production and delivery of key performance indicators and effective financial budgeting, forecasting and reporting.
The successful candidate will have an established track record in the music industry with proven, industry wide relationships across a broad spectrum. They will have a strong understanding and knowledge of the rapidly changing global music industry with experience in music publishing, artist management and/or the recording sector. They will have a proven ability to manage and direct a high performing team exceeding revenue, operational and cost objectives through a period of growth and change and will have a demonstrable understanding of new business models and the capacity to rapidly address change. The candidate will have a track record in building excellent relationships, as well as communication and negotiation skills and have a proven ability to devise and develop business plans and commercial strategies.
Applications
Candidates should apply by sending their CV and covering letter to recruitment@prsformusic.com by Friday 4th December 2015.
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