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The Vacancy
Can you imagine a world without music? Neither can we.
Key Details
To drive the forecasting, growth and delivery of PPL PRS sales by providing leadership, commercial insight and hands-on support to the New Business function. The role is responsible for fostering a high-performance sales culture, enhancing sales capability and effectiveness, and working closely with key stakeholders to maximise revenue opportunities, improve forecasting accuracy, and support the achievement of business objectives.
What you will be doing
Leadership & People Management
Provide leadership, coaching, and direction to Partnerships, Inbound and Retentions teams.
Develop a high-performance culture that promotes accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement, and employee engagement.
Support managers in building capable, motivated teams through effective performance management, coaching, and development planning.
Lead regular performance reviews, team meetings, and business updates to ensure alignment with departmental objectives and organisational priorities.
Champion career development and talent progression across the sales function.
Sales Performance & Revenue Delivery
Lead all sales and retention channels to achieve agreed leads, revenue, conversion, retention, and quality targets.
Own the sales forecasting process, Salesforce opportunities tracking, and conversions. Providing accurate weekly, monthly, and quarterly forecasts, latest best view updates, and performance insights.
Identify risks and opportunities within performance trends and implement corrective actions to maximise revenue delivery.
Drive ownership and accountability of targets across internal teams and outsourced partners through structured performance management and review processes.
Work closely with the Head of Sales to develop and execute initiatives that improve productivity, sales effectiveness, and commercial outcomes.
Operational Excellence & Continuous Improvement
Design, implement, and continuously improve sales processes, operating models, and governance frameworks to enhance efficiency and customer outcomes.
Develop and maintain a comprehensive suite of management information and reporting that enables data-driven decision making.
Use insight and analysis to identify performance trends, operational challenges, and opportunities for improvement.
Lead and support change initiatives, ensuring successful adoption of new processes, systems, and ways of working.
Foster a culture of continuous improvement across all sales and retention functions.
Partner & Stakeholder Management
Build strong relationships with internal stakeholders including Learning & Development, Finance, Legal, Business Insights, Operations, and Customer Experience teams.
Act as the operational owner for outsourced sales partner relationships, ensuring contractual obligations and performance standards are achieved.
Monitor outsourced partner performance against contractual and financial targets and KPIs, escalating risks and implementing improvement plans where necessary.
Influence stakeholders effectively to gain support and approval for initiatives that enhance sales performance and operational effectiveness.
Sales Capability & Development
Partner with Learning & Development to design, deliver, and evaluate sales training programmes that improve capability and performance.
Drive initiatives that enhance sales techniques, customer conversations, tariff knowledge, compliance standards, and customer experience outcomes.
Develop incentive, recognition, and engagement programmes that motivate teams and reinforce desired behaviours.
Ensure learning interventions deliver measurable improvements in individual and team performance.
Governance & Compliance
Maintain ownership of end-to-end sales compliance processes and governance frameworks.
Ensure all sales activity meets regulatory requirements, company policies, and agreed quality standards.
Work collaboratively with Legal, Finance, and wider business teams to ensure appropriate controls and risk management are maintained.
Promote a culture of accountability, transparency, and ethical selling practices across all channels
You will have
Essential:
Experience leading sales, retention, and contact centre operations,
Proven track record of delivering revenue growth and achieving challenging commercial targets.
Strong forecasting, planning, and performance management capability.
Experience developing high-performing teams through effective coaching and leadership.
Excellent analytical skills with the ability to translate data into actionable insights and business decisions.
Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills across multiple levels of an organisation.
Ability to successfully manage multiple priorities within a fast-paced commercial environment.
Strong understanding of operational governance, compliance, and quality management principles.
Passion for continuous improvement and delivering exceptional customer and commercial outcomes.
Desirable:
Experience within subscription, licensing, membership, or regulated environments.
Experience leading large-scale transformation or change initiatives.
Advanced knowledge of sales reporting, MI development, and workforce planning.
Professional leadership or management qualifications.
Flexible approach to working hours to support operational requirements where necessary.
Experience in managing outsource partners.
The Company
If you play or perform music in your business, you will usually need TheMusicLicence and that’s where we come in. TheMusicLicence from PPL PRS allows you to legally play music in your business or organisation and covers virtually all commercially released music. This includes millions of the most popular and well-loved songs and recordings, not just from the UK but also from around the world.
Who we are
If a business plays or performs music in their business, they will usually need TheMusicLicence and that’s where we come in. TheMusicLicence from PPL PRS allows businesses to legally play music in their business or organisation and covers virtually all commercially released music. This includes millions of the most popular and well-loved songs and recordings, not just from the UK but also from around the world.
By joining us, you’ll be part of a team that’s genuinely passionate about music and people. Since we started in 2018, we’ve grown massively, but we still have big ambitions. We’re looking for top talent full of fresh ideas and new perspectives to make a difference and help us grow even more.
We offer hybrid working in our modern office in the heart of Leicester along with a competitive benefits package. Visit www.pplprs.co.uk to find out more.
PPLPRS is an equal opportunities employer. Our mission is to recruit a diverse workforce and create inclusive teams.
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This Privacy Notice applies to all applicants for employment with PPL PRS and, where applicable, to applicants for either temporary agency positions or consultancy positions with PPL PRS.
As defined by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) PPL PRS is the Data Controller and ultimately responsible for ensuring the data you provide is kept secure, processed correctly and that you understand your legal rights in relation to the data you provide.
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1. The Data Controller
For the purposes of the Data Protection Act 2018, the General Data Protection Regulations 2016 and any and all other applicable laws and regulations relating to the processing of personal data and privacy (the "Data Protection Legislation") the data controller is PPL PRS with its registered office at Mercury Place, St. George Street, Leicester, LE1 1QG.
2. The Data Processor
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We may obtain your personal data because you have applied for a position with PPL PRS (either directly or through a recruiter or agent). This personal data includes, but is not limited to your name, contact details, date of birth, email address, interests and aspirations including salary expectations, gender, nationality, former employer(s), reason for leaving, reason for seeking employment with PPL PRS, current notice period, name of the employee referring you (if relevant), academic background (including professional qualifications), Curriculum Vitae (CV), application status, information recorded regarding your interview and any required adjustments to the recruitment process. We will hold, use and process that personal data in accordance with the terms of this Policy.
Please ensure you have the consent of any referee whose details you provide alongside your application for us to use their personal data as outlined in this Policy.
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5. Why We Collect, Use and Store this Personal Data
We collect, use and store your personal data for the reasons set out below.
We may process your personal data for the following purposes:
as required to operate our business and to pursue our legitimate interests to: make informed decisions on recruitment and ensure your suitability for the role or to keep you in mind for future roles; allow us to carry out automated decision making at the initial stages of the process in order to manage the volume of applications received; to communicate with you or to answer your enquiries; improve our recruitment processes and activities; manage our IT systems; to conduct group administration; by preference, to be searchable on our candidate database; and to optionally send you notifications on relevant jobs you are seeking; to conduct statistical analysis;
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to carry out certain verification and staff background checks, with your consent, where this is required in connection with your role.
If it is mandatory for you to provide data for these purposes, we will make this clear at the time the data is collected and will also explain what will happen if you do not provide the data.
Where we do process data based on consent, your consent can be withdrawn at any time. Please see ‘Your Choices and Rights’ for information as to how you can exercise this right.
6. Who Can Access the Personal Data and How We Share Your Personal Data
Your data will be accessed by authorised PPL PRS personnel who are required to maintain the confidentiality of this data.
We may also provide website visitor information and applicant data to our processors such as service providers that handle information under contract to PPL PRS. This includes, but is not limited to, help desk providers, IT hosting and/or IT maintenance providers and reference checking organisations such as Cascade Human Resources Limited, NetWorx and Vero Screening Limited.
We may share your personal data with our parent companies, PRS for Music Limited and Phonographic Performance Limited, as appropriate for recruitment purposes.
We will not share your personal data with third parties for secondary or unrelated purposes unless you have been informed of such disclosure at the point of collection and not without having gained consent from you at the point of collection of your personal data.
7. Your Choices and Rights
You have a right to access the personal information held about you by submitting a “Subject Access Request”. To make a Subject Access Request please contact us at the address set out below.
Where you have consented to our processing of your information for a specific purpose you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time.
You have the right to contact us to request that we rectify or erase any information that we hold about you or, in certain circumstances, to ask that we restrict the manner in which we process your information. Please note, in accordance with the Data Protection Legislation, we may be unable to erase your information in certain circumstances such as where it is still required for the purpose for which you provided it to us, if we have a legal obligation to retain it or if we have an overriding legitimate ground to continue processing your information. In addition, you can object to the processing of your personal data in some circumstances (in particular, where we don’t have to process the data to meet a contractual or other legal requirement).
You can take some actions in respect of your personal data yourself (for example, using the self-service function to review, delete or amend certain information on the Recruitment+ portal), but you can also get in touch with us to exercise any of the rights listed above by using the details set out under the 'Contact Us' section, below.
You have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office if you believe that we have breached our obligations under the Data Protection Legislation, or you are otherwise concerned about the way in which your Personal Data is handled. Please visit www.ico.org.uk for further information.
8. Retention of your Personal Data
If your application is successful, we will retain your personal data for the period of your employment and six (6) years after employment ceases.
If your application is unsuccessful, your details will be automatically deleted from PPL PRS' recruitment systems after 9 months from the date you submitted your details to PPL PRS.
9. Updates to this Privacy Notice
This Privacy Notice may be updated periodically. We will update the date at the top of this Privacy Notice accordingly and encourage you to check for changes, which will be available on the Recruitment+ portal. On some occasions, we may also actively advise you of specific data handling activities or significant changes to this Privacy Notice, as required by applicable law.
10. Contact Us
If you have questions about this Privacy Notice or wish to contact us for any reason in relation to our personal data processing, please contact us at recruitment@pplprs.co.uk or on 0116 4789196.
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