At a Glance
- Tasks: Support planning and coordination of music royalty distribution activities.
- Company: Join PPL, a passionate community dedicated to championing music rights.
- Benefits: Enjoy hybrid working, early finishes, medical insurance, and music activity allowances.
- Other info: Be part of a diverse team that values inclusion and creativity.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in the music industry while honing your project management skills.
- Qualifications: Experience in project planning and strong organisational skills required.
The predicted salary is between 49500 - 60500 £ per year.
About the Team
The Distribution department converts PPL’s data inputs — including money received, music usage reported and recordings registered by members — into royalty payments for performers and record companies. The team follows a structured annual distribution programme to ensure royalties are paid accurately, efficiently and on time.
What you’ll be doing
You will support the planning, coordination and governance of PPL’s annual distribution activity, helping to keep delivery plans, milestones, dependencies, risks, actions and decisions clearly tracked and managed. You will help keep colleagues informed, aligned and clear on what needs to be delivered and when.
Key Responsibilities
- Support the planning, coordination and governance of annual distribution activity.
- Maintain delivery plans, RAID logs, action trackers, decision logs and dependency trackers.
- Coordinate cross-functional workstreams and monitor progress against milestones and deadlines.
- Identify and escalate risks, issues, bottlenecks and changes that may affect delivery.
- Facilitate planning meetings, capture actions and follow up with owners.
- Support resource and capacity planning across competing priorities.
- Maintain planning documentation and contribute to continuous improvement.
About You
You will be highly organised, delivery focused and confident managing complex plans involving multiple teams, activities and deadlines. You will bring clarity and structure to busy operational environments and proactively identify risks, issues and dependencies. You will have strong planning, project management and communication skills, good attention to detail, and a collaborative approach to improving processes and ways of working.
Key Requirements
- Experience of project planning, scheduling and timeline management.
- Experience coordinating complex projects or operational workstreams involving multiple stakeholders.
- Strong organisational skills and the ability to manage competing priorities under pressure.
- Clear communication skills and confidence working with stakeholders at different levels.
- Ability to identify risks and issues and work proactively to resolve them.
- Good Microsoft Office skills, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams and Outlook.
- Experience using project planning, workflow or project management tools would be desirable.
Why work at PPL?
At PPL, you’ll join a community united by a love of music and a mission to champion music rights.
Key benefits include:
- Hybrid and flexible working.
- Work from anywhere for up to two weeks per year.
- Early Friday finishes in summer.
- Private medical insurance, life assurance and health cash plan.
- Music activity allowance, wellbeing discounts and season ticket loans.
- Regular socials, music industry events and a non-contractual annual bonus.
Equity, Diversity and Inclusion at PPL
PPL is committed to fairness, inclusion and creating a workplace where everyone feels welcome, respected and able to thrive.
About Us
Established in 1934, PPL exists to help ensure that those who invest their time, talent and money to make recorded music are fairly paid for their work. By licensing businesses and broadcasters all across the UK, and collecting royalties arising from the use of recorded music overseas, we do the heavy lifting for our members. Doing that heavy lifting are over 200 employees with a shared passion for music, who work hard behind the lights and sounds of the music industry on behalf of the many thousands of performers and record companies PPL represents.
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