Business Analyst IV

Business Analyst IV

Location: Overland Park, KS Duration: 03 Months on W2 Contract

This position supports the Client marketing organization by ensuring Client creative deliverables are fully cleared to go-live with permissions documented and licensing/terms contracted. The Senior Manager, Business Affairs will lead a team that will focus on the various aspects of using talent (non-union, union/SAG, employee) booking, contracting, payments, etc., rights and clearances for marketing, production and branded content, negotiating asset usage terms, licensing assets and overseeing the various stages of finalizing contractual paperwork. This role and the team are a bridge between creative teams and the operational aspects of securing rights and licensing assets and talent within a defined budget, so the ideal candidate possesses a balance of left-brain logic and analysis with right-brain creativity and intuition.

Main Responsibilities:

• Lead a team that assess the desired goals of creative leads and production and offer advice about the best solutions for assets/talent or guide them towards more feasible approaches that are better aligned to project budget or timing.
• Lead a team that manages vendor and contract management including negotiation, routing through Procurement, Legal and for signatures, opening POs, ensuring payments and ongoing tracking of all contracts.
• Track expiration dates of assets/talent and proactively report when renewals or relicensing is needed.
• Work with external agencies to manage renewals of expiring content.
• Leverage tools and technologies to make business affairs processes more efficient.
• Introduce new tools and technologies to stay current with industry trends.
• Monitor workload, productivity, and success metrics and make adjustments to defined goals/objectives as needed.

Qualifications:

• Has held a Business Affairs role at an external creative agency or in-house creative studio -Experience with intellectual property, licensing, clearances and usage rights for talent (union/SAG, non-union, employee) and assets.
• Well versed in the creative development process and stages of full-scale video/photo production.
• Must know when business affairs-related milestones need to be addressed.
• Experience developing and implementing creative operations processes and policies; and worked to ensure compliance