Senior Royalty & Distribution Manager in Liverpool

Company Description: Acquired by Believe in 2023, Sentric is an independent music publisher servicing self-releasing songwriters and disrupting traditional publishing with fair, transparent deals. We recently launched Believe Music Publishing, offering premium services from publishing administration to tailored publishing deals. Together, we empower a diverse client base of artists, songwriters, record labels, and catalogue owners to collect the royalties they deserve.

With intuitive technology and a people‐first approach, we have built a team of over 160 publishing experts worldwide, including more than 15 Sync specialists across North America and Europe, and dedicated teams in Creative, Revenue Optimisation, Royalties, Legal, and Copyright. Believe is a global artist development company. We empower local artists, labels and publishers to grow their audiences at each stage of their careers with expertise, respect, fairness and transparency.

Operating in 50+ countries, with more than 2,000 employees, Believe offers a full range of services including audience development, publishing, marketing and distribution, with a tailor‐made approach to fit any artist, label or publisher. Believe champions independence and innovation through a unique model that combines local expertise with a global tech platform, delivering exclusive solutions for artists to promote and monetize their music thanks to strategic partnerships with leading global digital service providers.

With a leading portfolio of brands that includes Nuclear Blast, naïve, TuneCore, Groove Attack, Sentric, AllPoints and Byond, Believe artists generated more than 800 billion streams worldwide in 2024 across all genres, and were recognised with more than 70 leading industry awards. Believe is a simplified joint‐stock company under French law.

Job Description: The Senior Royalty & Distribution Manager leads the teams responsible for processing incoming royalty data and delivering our quarterly royalty distributions. The role manages two teams – Receipt Processing & Matching and Royalty Distribution – ensuring royalties are processed accurately, matched correctly and distributed on time.

This role sits at the centre of the publishing operation. It requires strong people leadership, clear communication and disciplined operational management. The successful candidate will ensure the teams run efficiently, processes are clear and consistent, and stakeholders across the business understand how royalties move through the system.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage and support the Receipt Processing & Matching and Royalty Distribution teams.
• Set clear priorities and expectations across both teams.
• Provide coaching, feedback and development support to team members.
• Ensure workloads are balanced and deadlines are met.
• Build a team culture based on accountability, collaboration and reliability.
• Oversee the processing of incoming royalty statements and data from societies, partners and digital services.
• Ensure royalty data is processed, matched and reconciled accurately.
• Manage the preparation and delivery of quarterly royalty distributions.
• Ensure operational processes are clearly documented and consistently followed.
• Identify process improvements that increase efficiency and reduce errors.
• Maintain high standards of accuracy across all royalty processing activities.
• Ensure data is properly reconciled and any discrepancies are investigated and resolved.
• Put clear checks in place to reduce operational errors.
• Ensure processing and distribution deadlines are consistently met.
• Work closely with Rights, Finance, Client Operations, Product, Revenue Optimisation and Platform teams.
• Ensure teams across the business understand timelines, processes and operational requirements.
• Provide clear updates on operational progress, risks and issues when they arise.
• Act as a central point of coordination between teams involved in the royalty cycle.
• Support client‐facing teams by ensuring royalty processes are clear and reliable.
• Assist with operational queries relating to royalty statements or distributions when needed.
• Maintain strong working relationships with partners where coordination is required.

Qualifications:

• Experience working in music publishing royalties, royalty operations, royalty distribution or a similar environment.
• Experience managing teams and operational workflows.
• Strong organisational skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to manage complex processes involving multiple data sources and deadlines.
• Clear and confident communication skills.
• Comfortable working with systems, data and operational processes.
• Practical and organised.
• Calm under pressure.
• Clear communicator.
• Strong sense of ownership and accountability.
• Focused on accuracy and delivery.
• Pragmatic and strong problem solver.

Additional Information:

Working at Believe means having individual and collective impact in a fast‐growing company! At all stages of their careers, Believers are an important part of what we are doing: shaping the future of the music industry. We need teams that truly reflect the diversity of our clients: our international presence is an inspiring and enriching work environment for each one of us, with daily opportunities to connect with our colleagues all over the world.

We have two hearts at Believe – our People and our Artists. We believe in the Power of Our People, who grow every day to develop their potential... We aim to provide our Believers with the best environment to thrive.

Benefits:

• 25 days annual leave increasing with length of service (28 days at 3 years, 30 days at 5 years).
• 1 day off for your Birthday & 1 day off to move house each year.
• Salary sacrifice pension with matched employer contributions.
• Life Assurance and Group Income Protection Plan.
• Optional Private Medical Insurance (BIK).
• Enhanced Employee Assistance Programme.
• Two remote working days per week.
• Access to eutelmed, a digital mental health and well‐being platform offering sessions with experienced psychologists.
• Tailor‐made training and coaching program.
• Remote working policy.

Ambassador program: an employee volunteering initiative dedicated to all Believers interested in having a positive impact on Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI), wellbeing and the planet. We are committed to having a workforce that is representative of the community it serves at all levels of the organisation. We, therefore, welcome applications from all backgrounds and all sections of the community regardless of age, disability, gender, race, religion and sexual orientation.