What are the responsibilities and job description for the Contracts Associate - Subrights position at Sunstar?
Macmillan Trade is seeking a detail-oriented and highly organized Contracts Associate to join our busy team, handling Subsidiary Rights licensing agreements for the various publishers in the Macmillan Trade group of publishers, including Celadon Books, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Picador, Flatiron Books, Henry Holt & Co., Metropolitan Books, St. Martin’s Publishing Group, Tor, and the Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group.
The Associate will be responsible for reviewing, drafting, and processing a high volume of license agreements including UK, translation, audio, serial, educational, and reprint licenses; coordinate review and approval of licenses with co-agents and licensee publishers; track and process licenses through all stages of review, negotiation, and signature; maintain license data and archives; assist with securing license payments.
The ideal candidate will be diligent and motivated, with a genuine interest in the contracts and licensing side of the business, with excellent written and verbal communication skills, and great attention to detail. The Associate will be an integral partner in the execution and completion of license agreements, and will liaise with a wide variety of stakeholders, from the Sub-rights, Contracts, Editorial and Royalty teams in house, to our numerous co-agents and licensee publishers worldwide.
What you'll do :
- Draft and review a variety of subsidiary rights license agreements including UK, translation, audio, serial, educational, and reprint licenses;
- Assist with negotiation of certain license terms;
- Coordinate review and approval of licenses with co-agents and licensee publishers;
- Interpret author contract details (sub-rights granted, territories, author approvals) as related to license agreements;
- Manage electronic signature and completion of licenses;
- Track license status and archive signed agreements;
What you'll bring :
Ideal Experience / Education :
This role will have an annual salary of $60,000 - $65,000.
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.
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Salary : $60,000 - $65,000
