Manager, Royalty Services; Deal Processing

Company: BMG Rights Management (US) LLC

Work Location:

Nashville, 1 Music Circle South Suite 500, United States

Work Location Type: hybrid

USD 60,000 - 62,000 (Yearly)

Founded in 2008, BMG is committed to building the world’s most trusted, forward-looking music company. Following its combination with Concord in 2026, BMG brings together global scale, deep expertise, technology, and partnership to unlock new opportunities for creators while protecting and growing the long-term value and cultural impact of their work.

BMG’s repertoire includes works byiconic global artists, songwriters, composers, and playwrights, including will.i.am, Phil Collins, Tina Turner, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Jason Aldean, Jelly Roll, Evanescence, Kylie Minogue, Billie Holiday, Rodgers & Hammerstein, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Tennessee Williams, One Republic, Daddy Yankee, and Leonard Bernstein.

Headquartered in Nashville with 18 offices globally, BMG is privately held and part of Bertelsmann, the international media, services and education company, with a minority stake held by affiliates of Great Mountain Partners.

Your Mission

As a member of the Royalty Services team, you will be the first touch point on reviewing newly circulated client agreements and implementing them into the system. This spans across all deal types for Publishing:
Admin, Co-Pub, Joint Venture, Consulting, APA’s, and Audio Visual. Additionally, this role will work on setting up contracts for Recorded Artist agreements. We provide first in class service & support to our writers and artists as well as provide support to our colleagues in other departments. We focus on accurate deal ingestion with attention to detail, striving to create and maintain trust for our clients and working partners.

Our department works alongside other BMG teams, including but not limited to:
Copyright, Royalty Processing, Legal & Business Affairs, Finance and Client Services.

In this role, your primary mission is to handle timely processing and internal notifications of BMG’s publishing and recorded agreements. Additional responsibilities may include data updates (including, but not limited to song/client linkage updates, royalty rate modifications, and requesting adjustments), information service/rights research, reporting and analysis. You will interact and communicate with internal and external parties to assist in providing the highest level of service.

What You'll Be Doing

• Deal Processing:

  • Responsible for analyzing new publishing and recorded agreement terms to facilitate the setup of clients, system contracts, and royalty rates within BMG’s internal databases.

  • Communicating with Business & Legal regarding language interpretation and ambiguity.

  • Coordinating with song delivery and registration teams on schedule ingestion. Reconciliation of schedules to review existing catalog.

  • Coordinating with Finance on vendor creation for payment of Advances

  • Performing quality checks of data entered by other members of the Royalty Services team.

  • Determine client linkage/ rate set-ups for Joint Venture, Participation and APA agreements.

• Data Maintenance & Cleanup:
  Assist with suspense and error release, client/song relinkage, client linkage modifications.
• Client Services:
  Perform client to song linkage updates for Letters of Direction received by the Client Services team.
• Participate in deal integration conversations around workflow enhancements.
• Engage in and handle other ongoing processes or ad-hoc projects as business needs dictate or as assigned by supervisor.
• Review, research and provide timely responses to rights queries and information requests.

Strong contract interpretation skills with 3+ years…