Business Affairs Manager

Summary

Join Klick Health as their Business Affairs Manager, overseeing all talent and legal aspects of projects within the Production team. You will act as both a talent affairs manager and rights and licensing expert, supporting Producers and Creatives. Responsibilities include managing SAG-AFTRA and ACTRA partnerships, overseeing talent relationships, creating and managing templates and processes, and ensuring all contracts and legal requirements are met. You will collaborate with producers and the Executive Producer, and serve as the key point of contact for Klick’s legal and finance teams. The ideal candidate possesses 5+ years of experience managing talent, licenses, and contracts in an agency environment, along with advanced skills in project management and strong negotiation abilities. A Bachelor’s degree or Diploma in a related field is an asset.

Requirements

• Exceptional attention to detail, numbers, terms, and contract points
• Ability to create structure while being flexible and collaborative
• Negotiation skills
• Exceptional multi-tasking capabilities
• Highly effective oral and written communications skills
• Sound judgment and decisive problem-solving abilities
• Ability to build stakeholder rapport and trust
• Familiarity with industry contracts and legal requirements for both Canada and United States
• Understanding and mastery of talent negotiations, rights, licensing and talent union pricing structures - able to confidently quote talent projects in new media, broadcast, digital, live, etc
• Advanced skills in Excel, Smartsheets, PowerPoint, Google Suite
• Advanced skills in project management
• Advanced people skills - training, performance management, evaluation
• Advanced resource management skills - time, quality and needs assessments
• An AMAZING template maker and process wizard
• 5+ years of experience managing talent, licenses and contracts in an agency environment

Responsibilities

• Provide business management leadership and ownership for the production team
• Support key stakeholders across multiple Klick business units as a shared service leader
• Respond to new contract and/or talent requests from within Klick, as the key point of contact
• Collaborate with producers and the Executive Producer on the needs of contracts support
• Manage SAG-AFTRA and ACTRA partnerships, and any other talent union relationships
• Understand the nuance and requirements of working with talent unions, union talent and non-union talent, in Canada, the United States and abroad
• Oversee all talent relationships, agent relationships, booking companies, casting firms, and their subsequent contracts and negotiations for (including, but not limited to): actors, voice actors, models, influencers, celebrities, musicians, artists, performers, creators, freelance talent, etc
• Propose, create, own and manage all templates, key documents and internal processes for business affairs, contract templates, key talent management documents, etc
• Oversee rights and licensing for all work, including static and moving content, music, etc
• Manage all vendor contracts
• Ensure all contracts, legal requirements and vendor agreements are negotiated effectively, approached with consistency and are financially optimized

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or Diploma in a related field is an asset
• Experience working with clients in life sciences is an asset
• Experience working on a global-scale with contracts, legal, risk management, compliance, etc
• Experience working for a casting agency, talent union, talent representation firm, etc considered a bonus