Job Description

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:

Administer, draft, negotiate, review client-facing custom content and production services agreements  using company provided form templates

Summarize,  communicate and assess contractual obligations with various internal teams (Program Management, Sales, Legal, Finance) 

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

Flag possible legal, clearance, talent and/or logistical issues and suggest solutions

Join pre and post-sale client calls concerning contracts; ensuring agenda is clear and correct internal stakeholders are brought in

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 

Maintain complete contract files, internal shared drive and database of advertising-related documents 

Research various legal and non-legal issues

Under guidance of legal counsel, advise teams on the viability of program concepts and content, flagging potential issues and/or third party rights considerations

Work closely with internal teams to find creative solutions to  impediments to program concepts

Perform ad-hoc administrative tasks to facilitate contract negotiation 

Assist in creating resource materials and training teams on BA processes and procedures 

Occasional special projects and operational tasks

Basic Qualifications:

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

Knowledge of commercial contracts & publicity rights and negotiating and drafting experience.

Must be able to handle confidential information and exercise care in safeguarding proprietary information

Impeccable attention to detail and organizational skills

Must have excellent interpersonal skills and demonstrated ability to multitask and prioritize to meet deadlines

Excellent critical thinking, analytical  and problem solving skills

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Must be able to communicate clearly and effectively with all levels of Agency, Client and Production personnel

Working knowledge of MAC environment

Working knowledge of Google docs environment