Business Affairs Administration Manager, Publishing

Overview

Concord is the world’s leading independent music company. The Company supports more than 125,000 artists and songwriters whose works are licensed, marketed, and performed globally. Concord's growing catalog of 1.3 million songs, compositions, sound recordings, films, plays, and musicals is one of the most impactful and culturally relevant collections of creative rights in history.

 

Concord is headquartered in Nashville with additional offices in Los Angeles, New York, London, Berlin, Melbourne, and Miami.

 

 

As the Business Affairs Administration Manager, you'll be supporting the U.S. music publishing business for Concord and will primarily be responsible for assisting with the managing of publishing contracts, fielding of inquiries and the maintenance of various tracking reports for a subset of the songwriter/composer roster.  This position reports to the Sr. Manager, Business Affairs Administration, Publishing, who manages the contracts for the U.S. publishing business in Nashville (including the U.S. roster of songwriters and catalogs managed by the Nashville and Los Angeles - based A&R teams, and certain legacy publishing catalogs).

Responsibilities

What you’ll do:

• Serve as a point of contact to assist the Sr. Manager and Sr. Director Business Affairs Administration, Publishing in providing business and legal affairs contract administration support for the various US publishing teams.  
• Manage the contract administration responsibilities for a subset of the U.S. publishing business:
• Interact with other depts. to ensure proper administration of contracts and related deliverables: e.g., proper registration, royalty administration, etc.
• Prepare contract summaries and inquiry responses for a subset of the U.S. publishing business including legacy, current and acquired catalogs
• Work cross-functionally with various internal departments on songwriter client inquiries in collaboration with A&R, Copyright, Royalty, Licensing, Client Services, and Finance
• Draft formal letters or notices to internal and external parties
• Assist with preparing and maintaining reports and tracking mechanisms, including for the purpose of tracking acquired catalogs, new publishing agreements, upcoming Terms, options and expirations, delivery requirements, advance triggering events, recoupment positions, terminations, and other material terms.
• Prepare and track invoices for contractual payments for publishing deals across the U.S. publishing business
• Maintain publishing files and records in accordance with company’s document storage and retention policy, including participation in various technology initiatives.
• Provide support to the rest of the Publishing Business & Legal Affairs department as projects and need arise

 

Qualifications

What you’ll need:

• Minimum 5 years of professional experience in the music publishing business, preferably in rights management
• Ability to think critically, multi-task and perform in a fast-paced, deadline driven environment with tight and frequently changing timeframes
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to distill complex contractual concepts into simple terms including timely and accurate assessment of contractual language
• Proactive, adaptive, coachable and positive
• Keen attention to detail and self-directed; able to turn ambiguity into actionable plans
• Excellent computer aptitude and reasonably proficiency with MS Office Suite, especially Excel, Adobe Acrobat PRO, Outlook and, cloud-based document management platforms.
• Experience with JIRA and Salesforce a plus.

Salary Range: $60,000 - 70,000

 

*This job is hybrid- requiring 3 days a week minimum on site.  

 

At Concord, we offer comprehensive medical and wellness benefits, generous time off, parental leave, charity match, paid time off for volunteering, and other fun company perks. We have beautiful new offices and a culture committed to supporting everyone’s growth and development.

 

Concord is an equal opportunity employer. We employ, train, compensate and promote regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, veteran status, and other protected status as required by applicable law. We believe that diversity, inclusion and equity is paramount for the creation of music, theater and film that celebrates and empowers all cultures.