Business Affairs Manager Jobs

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About Us:

The Advertising team creates branded content for the gamut of The New York Times’s advertisers. Our work takes many forms — reported articles, documentary videos, animations, photo essays, social posts, podcasts, interactive data visualizations, event activations or Newsroom sponsorships — and ranges from unbranded reportage to branded profiles focusing on our partners’ products, services or people.

We are looking for an experienced Business Affairs Manager with knowledge of client facing and producer content agreements to manage a subset of our contractual engagements. This role will be expected to have frequent, extensive communication cross-functionally with a variety of seniority levels and teams including finance, creative, and legal counsel.

This is a temporary position with an anticipated assignment of 4 months and there may be potential for conversion.

Responsibilities

• Assist in creating resource materials and training teams on BA processes and procedures
• Join pre and post-sale client calls concerning contracts; ensuring agenda is clear and correct internal stakeholders are brought in
• Summarize, communicate and assess contractual obligations with various internal teams (Program Management, Sales, Legal, Finance)
• Under guidance of legal counsel, advise teams on the viability of program concepts and content, flagging potential issues and/or third party rights considerations
• Perform ad-hoc administrative tasks to facilitate contract negotiation
• Research various legal and non-legal issues
• Assist the BA team in providing on-going business advice to internal business units concerning digital media, print, production, talent and other issues as needed
• Administer, draft, negotiate, review client-facing custom content and production services agreements using company provided form templates
• Maintain complete contract files, internal shared drive and database of advertising-related documents
• Occasional special projects and operational tasks
• Work closely with internal teams to find creative solutions to impediments to program concepts
• Handle all admin for the life cycle of an agreement including processing, tracking and filing contracts, arranging for signature, archiving and sharing with internal compliance units
• Flag possible legal, clearance, talent and/or logistical issues and suggest solutions

Basic Qualifications

• Impeccable attention to detail and organizational skills
• Knowledge of commercial contracts & publicity rights and negotiating and drafting experience.
• 3+ years experience in business affairs, contracts management, contract negotiations with an emphasis in advertising and production with an established publisher, online media publication, and/or ad agency
• Excellent critical thinking, analytical and problem solving skills
• Must have excellent interpersonal skills and demonstrated ability to multitask and prioritize to meet deadlines
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Working knowledge of MAC environment
• Must be able to handle confidential information and exercise care in safeguarding proprietary information
• Working knowledge of Google docs environment
• Must be able to communicate clearly and effectively with all levels of Agency, Client and Production personnel

The annual base pay range for this role is between $80,000.00 and $100,000.00.

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