Head of Global Rights
About Us
Song Solutions is a vibrant and dynamic part of Essential Christian, committed to providing outstanding song publishing and administration services for songwriters and musicians across our global creative community. Our team works collaboratively to ensure the highest standards in music rights management, helping clients maximize their reach and revenue potential.
About Role
We are looking for a forward-thinking, self-motivated music industry professional to manage and lead our Song Solutions Administration team into an exciting future.
Key Responsibilities
- Cultivate strong relationships with key industry stakeholders, including songwriters, publishers, labels, sub-publishers and digital service providers
- Regularly communicate with PRS/MCPS, ICE and IMRO as well as US agencies such as ASCAP, BMI, SESAC, and MLC
- Ensure proactive and effective interaction with our global sub-publishing network, with a view to expansion.
- Ensure a consistent and best-in-class customer-first mindset, maintaining and building trust with clients
- Seek opportunities to improve our processes, collaborating with the Copyright team to implement new processes, and project-manage areas of development from concept to completion.
- Oversee the successful onboarding and integration of new clients.
- Monitor income flows in line with expectations & resolve any interruptions or discrepancies.
- Keep up to date with industry initiatives, news and updates, particularly across your respective areas of responsibility.
- Oversee music licensing for the UK, Europe and USA.
About You
You will have a solid understanding of the music industry and be part of a future-facing team. You will be able to build relationships across our writer, client community, international affiliates and both UK and US performing and mechanical collection societies. An understanding of Christian worship music is highly preferable, but Candidates must be sympathetic to the Christian Faith, and therefore our Christian ethos as an organisation.
Required Skills and Experience
- Experience in client-facing, account management role in the music industry as well as an understanding of music publishing, music copyright, performing rights organizations (PROs), digital service providers (DSPs), and royalty flow.
- Highly organized, with an ability to balance independent tasks and collaborative projects.
- You have an analytical mindset with the ability to interpret complex data sets.
- Knowledge of publishing software Music Maestro or equivalent.
- Understanding of sub-coding songs for royalty distribution.
- Knowledge of other emerging technologies as well as analysing and interpreting data to make informed business decisions.
- Strong communication and relationship management abilities.
- Ability to work independently in a remote environment while maintaining collaboration with the team.
We’d love it if you also had
- Experience with AI tools and other emerging technology
- A passion for music!
- Involvement in a local Christian church.
What Makes this Role Special?
- Hybrid-Working: This role will reap the benefits of independent homeworking and collaboration with the office team.
- Spiritual Community: As part of the wider Essential Christian staff team, you will engage with our weekly staff catch-ups and prayer times to help bring alignment to our vision and purpose.
- Competitive Remuneration: This position is offered with a competitive salary, pension and Group Life Assurance.
- Newly Refurbished Office Environment: Our offices have been newly refurbished to provide a vibrant collaborative working space, with digital media meeting facilities.
If you’re an established music industry professional who is keen to take on a role that will make a lasting impact, we’d love to hear from you.
For a full job description, please visit www.essentialchristian.org/careers
To apply for this role, please write with a covering letter and a copy of your C.V. to recruitment@essentialchristian.org
Closing date for applications: Friday 21 February 2025