Project Manager

Overview

Music wouldn't exist without the work of songwriters, composers and publishers. We're here to represent them and make sure that they are paid for their work. After more than a century in the industry, we continue to innovate as a world-leading organisation.

The Role

As a project manager you'll play an important role in facilitating the delivery of our strategy. We're looking for an experienced project manager with excellent interpersonal skills to join our team. You'll work as part of a supportive, curious and capable delivery team who are focused on quality delivery. In the role you will manage end-to-end delivery of projects, and be able to confidently and calmly deliver across the range of projects within our portfolio.

Our Transformation team is responsible the delivery of our ambitious transformation portfolio. Our inclusive and customer-focused team places the PRS values at the heart of everything we do, fostering strong relationships and a high degree of trust with our stakeholders to ensure that we deliver change well.

Our transformation portfolio includes a wide range of initiatives involving systems, process and people change, focusing on ensuring that colleagues have the right information, tools, knowledge and support to work in new ways. This may involve identifying opportunities for improvement, developing new processes and procedures, implementing new technologies or systems, and providing training and support to ensure that all stakeholders are prepared to adapt to the changes.

The ethos of our inclusive and customer-focused team is one that prioritises respect, collaboration, empathy, flexibility and continuous improvement in order to deliver high quality change.

Responsibilities

As our Project Manager, some of your day to day duties will include:

• Engaging with a broad range of stakeholders across your peer group, sponsors, business SMEs, technical delivery teams and our supplier landscape.
• Maintaining accurate plans and clear and timely updates using Agile methodology, with the ability to recognise and adapt to waterfall or hybrid methods where needed to drive the best outcomes.
• Identifying potential blockers to success and taking action, or, as appropriate presenting recommendations to overcome these.
• Looking for and owning ways to continuously improve our delivery methodology using the tools available (inc. AI) as part of the project management community.

For a full list of duties, please email the recruitment team and request a copy of the job description.

About You

At PRS for Music, we want you to bring the best version of yourself to work. We believe that celebrating individuality promotes a culture of acceptance and openness. Along with being whoever you want to be, in an ideal world you will also have:

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, and the ability to build strong relationships with all stakeholders and colleagues, building energised and psychologically safe environments for your project teams.
• Proven track record of taking accountability and ownership of your projects and ideas.
• Demonstrable experience of Agile delivery and product ways of working, while also being able to navigate waterfall methodology.
• Passion for continuous learning and development, bringing curiousity and a growth mindset to what you do.
• Practitioner level project management qualifications (e.g. APM PMQ, AgilePM Practitioner, PMP etc) or similar proven experience.
• Experience of project delivery tools including Jira and PPM tools.
• A drive to succeed, for our members, for our team - being part of a team that, while working on different projects, you recognise and strive to form part of a supportive community of practice, in the belief that when we work well together, we can achieve great things on behalf of our members.

What’s in it for you?

Here are just a few things that set PRS for Music apart from the crowd:

• We trust, value, and support our people to make the difference
• We believe that diversity of thought and experience provides the platform for innovation and creativity
• We are consciously inclusive and have eight Affinity Groups which you can join and make an impact
• We invest in the development of our people to drive our ambitions forward
• We offer a range of family friendly leave including enhanced maternity and paternity, grandparent, fertility, reproductive and menopause support.
• We know time to rest and recharge is important which is why we offer 25 days holiday entitlement with the option to top up twice annually up to a maximum of 30 days
• Employees can work from anywhere in the world for up to eight weeks of the year
• Plus a whole range of other benefits, including retail discounts, gym discounts, season ticket or bicycle loan.

The Process

Our Interview Process For This Role Is Simple

• First stage interview will take place virtually on MS Teams.
• Second stage interview will take place in person at our London Bridge Hub.

We use competency-based questions within our interviews. This allows you to provide examples of situations where you have had to demonstrate the required skills relevant to the role you are applying for. To assist your preparation for interview, research the STAR method to aid bringing your examples to life.

Location

We offer a hybrid working model, allowing employees to work from home up to three days a week.

To ensure the health and safety of all our employees, if you wish to work from home for more than 2.5 days per week, we will conduct a quick and easy remote-working assessment.

If you sound like you could be the right person for the job, apply now.

At PRS we are committed to equity, diversity, inclusion and belonging for all. We have taken a holistic approach to ensure that no one feels excluded regardless of age, class, sexuality, gender, race, religion, or ability. We value the needs of everyone in our organisation and strive to build an environment where our employee’s contributions are recognised in order that everyone may thrive.