Springer Nature

Team Lead, Global Series Royalties & Legacy Entities

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Team Lead, Global Series Royalties & Legacy Entities

Location: Berlin or Jersey City

About Springer Nature: Springer Nature is a leading publisher of research worldwide, providing technology-enabled products and platforms that help researchers, healthcare professionals, and educators advance knowledge. For more information, visit about.springernature.com .

About the Role: Own and continuously improve the end-to-end royalty operations for book series globally and established legacy book entities. Manage royalties, safeguard controls, ensure compliance, and act as process lead for new sales models and package calculation models. This role will be in our Berlin or Jersey City offices on a hybrid working model.

Role Responsibilities

  • Manage the end-to-end royalty process for book series, maintaining current databases of series editor obligations and tiering/escalators.
  • Review, process, and link contracts of series editor obligations in the royalty system and release payments before due dates.
  • Recommend and communicate payment policy changes based on meaningful data analysis.
  • Oversee and approve first-level payment entries for fixed fee agreements and ensure SLA is met.
  • Partner with IT on fixes, enhancements, and plan UAT and controlled releases.
  • Identify and implement continuous improvement opportunities.
  • Ensure compliance with internal controls, regulatory requirements, and make the process audit-proof.
  • Lead the design, governance, and evaluation of new royalty models related to new sales distribution models and package calculation models.
  • Own package calculation models and allocation rules, configure rules in the royalty system, perform UAT, and sign off.
  • Monitor variances, drive root cause analyses, and communicate impact to stakeholders.
  • Ensure compliance with VAT, withholding tax, and reporting to local governments.
  • Prepare materials for internal and external audits and track remediation actions.
  • Maintain monthly royalty KPIs and dashboards, support finance with accruals and reconciliations.
  • Lead direct reports managing all non-emerging entities, coaching, coverage planning, and performance reviews.
  • Deputy for the Manager of Global Royalty Operations and support hiring of replacements.
  • Build strong relationships with Editorial/Publishing, Contract Management/Legal, Sales Operations, AP, VMD, Tax, Finance, and IT.

Experience, Skills & Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s in Accounting/Finance or MBA (or equivalent).
  • 5+ years of experience in a complex royalty organization, including 2 years of team lead experience.
  • Strong knowledge of royalty accounting and core accounting principles.
  • Proven contract interpretation for royalty conditions, tiering/escalators, bundles, and usage-based models.
  • Hands‑on experience with royalty solutions such as Rights Line (Alliant), Vista Royalties, Virtusales (Biblio), Vistex, and ERP systems like SAP and Oracle.
  • SLA/KPI driven service delivery and excellent written and verbal communication.
  • Process owner mindset: continuous improvement, end‑to‑end accountability, SOP design, RACI, change management, and outcome measurement.
  • Analytical skills: root cause analysis, Excel, KPI storytelling, reconciliations, exception handling, variance analysis.
  • People management: coaching, team development, employee growth.
  • Technical capability: manage workload and projects within timelines and budgets.
  • Customer focus and relationship building across internal and external stakeholders.
  • Problem solving, initiative, logical and practical solutions.
  • Personal effectiveness: results focused, productivity, ownership, delegation.

DEI & Inclusion

We value the diversity of our teams and work to build an inclusive culture, where people are treated fairly and can bring their differences to work and thrive. If you have any access needs related to disability, neurodivergence or a chronic condition, please contact us so we can make all necessary accommodations.

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Stelleninformationen

  • Veröffentlichungsdatum:

    11 Dez 2025
  • Standort:

    WorkFromHome
  • Typ:

    Vollzeit
  • Arbeitsmodell:

    Vor Ort
  • Kategorie:

    Development & IT
  • Erfahrung:

    2+ years
  • Arbeitsverhältnis:

    Angestellt

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