What are the responsibilities and job description for the Business Analyst, Royalties position at Macmillan Learning?
Description
Macmillan is seeking a highly skilled and proactive Business Analyst to join our Project Management Office (PMO) team. This role is critical in driving business process optimization, ensuring alignment between business and technology, and reinforcing structured program delivery. The ideal candidate will play a pivotal role in mitigating dependencies on business SMEs, enforcing accountability across workstreams, and embedding a strong business-led approach within program execution.
This position requires a strong background in program delivery, business analysis, and change management, particularly in complex environments where program structures and ownership require reinforcement. Experience in royalty management, finance, metadata workflows, and publishing technologies is highly desirable.
What you'll do :
- Business Process Analysis & Documentation
Lead the definition, documentation, and optimization of future-state business processes, ensuring clear ownership and accountability.
Develop and implement a structured approach to business requirements elicitation, ensuring wider engagement beyond a central group of SMEs.
Drive a structured change management approach, ensuring business process-focused training and user acceptance testing (UAT) are embedded within delivery.
Act as a bridge between business and technology, ensuring clear communication and alignment of priorities.
What you'll bring :
7 years of experience as a Business Analyst, preferably in publishing, media, entertainment, or finance industries.
Ability to navigate conflicting business and technology priorities, ensuring a balanced and aligned delivery approach.
Experience with business process modeling tools (e.g., Visio, Lucidchart, BPMN, ARIS) and workflow automation.
Certifications (Preferred but Not Required)
This role will have an annual salary of $ 112,000 - 130,000
Macmillan Publishers is the U.S. trade company that is part of the Holtzbrinck Publishing Group, a large family-owned group of media companies headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany. Holtzbrinck Publishing Group's publishing companies include prominent imprints around the world that publish a broad range of award-winning books for children and adults in all categories and formats.
U.S. publishers include Celadon Books, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Flatiron Books, Henry Holt & Company, Macmillan Audio, Macmillan Children's Publishing Group, The St. Martin's Publishing Group, and Tor Publishing Group. In the UK, Australia, India, and South Africa, companies in the Holtzbrinck Publishing Group publish under the Pan Macmillan name. The German publishing company, Holtzbrinck Deutsche Buchverlage, includes among its imprints S. Fischer, Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Rowohlt, and Droemer Knaur.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are actively seeking job applicants who reflect a broad representation of differences, including race, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity / expression, physical ability, neurodiversity, age, family status, economic background and status, geographical background and status, and perspective. We believe that the best companies reflect the incredible diversity in viewpoints, backgrounds, and identities of the world in their staffs, and are committed to inclusive hiring across departments and levels. The successful candidate for this position will be an employee of Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC.
Salary : $112,000 - $130,000
