Project Manager Royalty System Optimisation

Key Responsibilities

Royalty System Optimisation & Delivery

• Own and deliver a defined WestEnd optimisation roadmap covering process efficiency data quality automation and usability improvements.
• Lead requirements definition across Partnership Finance Royalties FP&A Controllership and Legal Operations teams ensuring endtoend workflows are properly understood before system changes are designed.
• Convert business needs into clear functional specifications for the WestEnd vendor and associated technical partners.
• Manage delivery of system enhancements endtoend: scoping prioritisation build testing deployment and postrelease validation.
• Actively engage in the technical delivery and take ownership of operational tasks to ensure deliverables are met. 
• Workstreams include: credit control functionality delinquency control functionality subagent accounting forecasting automation sku setup automation reporting enhancements.

Vendor & Stakeholder Management

• Act as the primary daytoday interface with the WestEnd vendor coordinating enhancements resolving issues and maintaining delivery momentum.
• Challenge vendor proposals where required to ensure solutions address root causes not symptoms.
• Coordinate UAT with internal users ensuring changes are robust understood and adopted.
• Maintain strong engagement with senior stakeholders providing clear progress updates risk management and dependency tracking.
• Coordinate with Corporate Royalties team and Director Finance Digital Transformation (programme lead on parallel ERP and data architecture projects)

Licensing & Royalties Process Expertise

• Apply indepth understanding of the licensing royalty lifecycle including:
  • Deal structures (MGs overages royalty rates advances participation recoupment)
  • Contract execution and setup
  • Royalty reporting and validation
  • Billing cash application and reporting to licensors
• Ensure system changes support realworld licensing complexity including multiterritory deals subagenting forecasting and reporting nuances.

Integration & Broader Systems Alignment

• Work closely with CRM finance and data teams to ensure WestEnd improvements align with upstream and downstream systems (e.g. CRM ERP reporting tools).
• Support dependency management with parallel initiatives affecting licensing and finance processes.

Qualifications :

Experience & Skills Required

Essential

• Proven experience delivering system optimisation or enhancement projects ideally within royalties licensing rights management or complex transactional environments.
• Proven ability to both manage projects and directly contribute to technical delivery including hands-on system optimisation and implementation
• Strong understanding of licensing royalties deal mechanics and the endtoend royalty lifecycle.
• Demonstrated experience working directly with external software vendors to deliver functional improvements.
• Ability to translate business processes into clear system requirements and challenge stakeholders constructively.
• Excellent project management skills: planning prioritisation dependency management delivery tracking.

Desirable

• Handson experience with royalty or rights management systems (e.g. WestEnd Counterpoint Jaguar or similar).
• Experience operating in multiterritory or agent / subagent licensing models.
• Familiarity with finance systems integrations and data flows.

Soft Skills

• Practically focused with strong execution capability
• Processdriven structured and pragmatic.
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity and untangling complex workflows.
• Confident influencing both technical vendors and senior business stakeholders.
• Deliveryfocused with a bias toward practical outcomes rather than theoretical perfection.

What Success Looks Like

By the end of the contract the Project Manager will have:

• Delivered measurable improvements to WestEnd usability data quality and process efficiency.
• Reduced operational friction in royalty reporting billing and forecasting.
• Left behind clear documentation prioritised backlogs and improved ways of working between business teams and the vendor.

Additional Information :

What We Offer 

Working at WildBrain is more than a job itsthe opportunity to join forces with extraordinary insightfuland imaginative people who will recognize your talents and encourage your professional growth and development in a work environment that promotes creativity and offer competitivebenefitsand we invest in our people and their future. 

Our Commitment 

Diversity Equity andInclusion are in our DNA. As a global leader in kids and family entertainment we strive to reflect andhonourthe diversity of our audiences around the world. We believe that creating diverse and inclusive content & brands begins with fostering a culture of belonging at WildBrain. To us a culture of belonging is one where we celebrate and welcome the diversity of all employees stakeholders and external partners and strive to create an environment where every individual feels valued respected and brings their authentic self to work. 

Wedemonstrateour commitment to this by striving to provide a supportive work environment and a corporate culture that welcomes and encourages equal opportunities for all recognize that people bring experience and talent that goes beyond the technical skills and requirements of a job. If youpossesssimilarexperience that is close to whatwevelisted here we encourage you toplease still considerapplying. We strongly believe that diverseexperience transferable skills and passion are key!WildBrain accommodates people with disabilities throughout the recruitment and selection process. Applicants are encouraged to make their needs known in advance if accommodation isrequired. 

About WildBrain

At WildBrain we build and grow beloved family brands through exceptional entertainment experiences. Home to franchises such as Strawberry Shortcake Teletubbies Yo Gabba Gabba! Inspector Gadget and Degrassi we are a global leader in franchise managementbringing stories to life through content production audience reach and consumer products. Our award-winning studio has partnered with top global platforms such as Apple TV Netflix and the BBC producing acclaimed series such as The Snoopy Show Strawberry Shortcake: Berry in the Big City Teletubbies (2015) Yo Gabba GabbaLand! and Finding Her Edge. Through our global digital network across YouTube FAST and AVOD we deliver premium broadcast-quality content to todays kids and families wherever theyre watchingconnecting brands to audiences at scale and offering advertisers one of the largest digital inventories in family media. WildBrain CPLG our global licensing and consumer products arm represents our own and partner brands across major territories worldwide. Headquartered in Toronto WildBrain trades on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX: WILD). Visit us at .

About WildBrain CPLG 

WildBrain CPLG is a trusted licensing partner for leading brands worldwide offering 50 years of expertise building consumer products and location-based entertainment programmes across the entertainment sport corporate and lifestyle sectors. With over 20 offices serving the UK Europe India the Middle East China Asia Pacific and the US WildBrain CPLG combines the strength of global reach with expertise in local markets to achieve the best results for partners. Our passionate teams consistently challenge themselves to explore new and innovative ideas and opportunities in partnerships activations creative and business processes to celebrate and build brands. At WildBrain CPLG we believe that collaboration is about clarity openness and trust and we are widely known for our no-nonsense straightforward approach. WildBrain CPLG is part of WildBrain Ltd. a global leader in kids and family entertainment. Please contact us or visit the WildBrain CPLG website for more information: . 

About WildBrain

At WildBrain we build and grow beloved family brands through exceptional entertainment experiences. Home to franchises such as Strawberry Shortcake Teletubbies Yo Gabba Gabba! Inspector Gadget and Degrassi we are a global leader in franchise managementbringing stories to life through content production audience reach and consumer products. Our award-winning studio has partnered with top global platforms such as Apple TV Netflix and the BBC producing acclaimed series such as The Snoopy Show Strawberry Shortcake: Berry in the Big City Teletubbies (2015) Yo Gabba GabbaLand! and Finding Her Edge. Through our global digital network across YouTube FAST and AVOD we deliver premium broadcast-quality content to todays kids and families wherever theyre watchingconnecting brands to audiences at scale and offering advertisers one of the largest digital inventories in family media. WildBrain CPLG our global licensing and consumer products arm represents our own and partner brands across major territories worldwide. Headquartered in Toronto WildBrain trades on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX: WILD). Visit us at .

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time