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Director of Subsidiary Rights Contracts

We are seeking a Director of Subsidiary Rights Contracts to join the busy team handling Subsidiary Rights licensing agreements for the various publishers in the Macmillan Trade group of publishers, including St. Martin’s Publishing Group, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Tor, Celadon Books, Picador, Flatiron Books, Henry Holt & Co., Metropolitan Books, and the Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group.

The Director will report to the VP Director of Contracts and will: oversee and work together with a team that handles a high volume of license agreements including UK, translation, audio, serial, educational, and reprint licenses; develop efficient processes and documentation; and advise on deal terms and contract questions. We’re seeking an experienced and diplomatic candidate with a genuine interest in the contracts and licensing side of the publishing business. The ideal candidate will have a keen interest in managing team members and liaising with a wide variety of stakeholders, from the in-house Subsidiary Rights, Contracts, Editorial and Royalty teams, to our numerous co-agents and licensees worldwide.

What you'll do:

  • Draft and negotiate a high volume of subsidiary rights license agreements including UK, translation, audio, serial, educational, and reprint licenses
  • Manage, support, and oversee team members day-to-day, including assessment and distribution of workload, supervision, mentoring, and development
  • Develop and implement improvements to workflow and processes
  • Maintain and update templates and boilerplate, including negotiation of boilerplate
  • Interpret author contracts as related to license agreements (e.g. subrights granted, territories, required author approvals)
  • Liaise with in-house and external stakeholders

What you'll bring:

  • Excellent analytical, negotiation, writing and communication skills
  • Substantial experience managing, supervising, and training direct reports
  • Highly organized and detail oriented
  • Proficiency balancing priorities, managing heavy volume with expedient turnaround, attention to detail, and good communication with the business
  • Thorough grasp of relevant contract and business issues in book publishing industry and interest in the business side of book publishing, particularly subsidiary rights, author contracts, intellectual property, copyright
  • Strong process improvement and organizational skills
  • Comfortable with Microsoft Office and G-Suite

Ideal Experience/Education:

  • 10+ years’ experience in a contracts professional role, drafting, negotiating, and reviewing a broad range of subsidiary rights agreements and/or author contracts in the book publishing industry
  • 5+ years’ experience with people management
  • Familiarity with Biblio3 Suite and/or Bradbury Phillips Rights Manager a plus
  • Bachelor’s degree or commensurate experience required

To be considered, please include a cover letter with your application.

This role will have an annual salary of $113,000 - $125,000.

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.

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Macmillan Learning is a privately-held, family-owned education publishing and services company and because of that we’re able to focus on what’s most important—helping students of all abilities and backgrounds learn and succeed. Education creates ...

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