Senior Business Affairs Manager

Company description

We are PXP—the future of creative production. We’re the click-drivers and the antidote to “the skip”, building stronger connections between brands and people. We are smart creatives, fearless explorers and solution finders. Our ambition drives us to influence the world by helping brands become cultural icons.

A Senior Business Affairs Manager plays an integral role supporting creative development and integrated productions, including broadcast, print, experiential and digital projects. This person is a team player with a creative mind, an ability to work in a fast-paced creative environment and an extensive understanding of the production process from conception and bidding to final delivery.

• BA Lead for client day to day work
• Partner with various cross-agency teams to review creative materials at all stages and advise on talent, third-party rights, including copyright, trademark, and rights of publicity, and other advertising regulations and guidelines
• Review vendor policies and agreements to ensure alignment with Client SOWs and MSAs
• Partner with legal counsel to perform preliminary trademark searches
• Manage third party rights and clearance
• Negotiate, structure, and draft celebrity talent, creator, music, and intellectual property deals
• Partner with agency legal on contract challenges, release standardization and updates, templates and risk assessments
• Advise on production guidelines and best practices, client brand guidelines, and Groupe POVs
• Partner with production and other stakeholders to track and manage active agency production jobs
• Partner with producers to review and advise on AICP and other bidding documents
• Partner with finance and production to finalize client estimates and caveats prior to Client signature
• Create and issue award documents including vendor agreements, insurance, licensing and talent agreements and vendor purchase orders
• Work with Producers and Finance on various production budgets and actualizations
• Work with insurance and risk management to evaluate production and contract challenges
• Proactively manage all account transition documentation
• Integrate AI-driven tools into creative and production processes to boost efficiency, elevate content quality, and stay ahead of emerging trends in technology and storytelling

• Advise and proactively educate on the SAG-AFTRA and AFM (if applicable) agreements, including waivers, interpretations, regulations and best practices
• Advise and proactively educate agency teams and clients on non-union (if applicable) best practices, employment guidelines and other considerations
• Participate in and impact project scoping discussions
• Estimate talent session and usage fees, and all other talent and music related costs of production and usage
• Manage full talent cycle including talent contracts, session reports and final casts, session, holding fee, and usage payments, and renegotiations in compliance with SAG/AFTRA/ACTRA and AFofM guidelines (when applicable)
• Draft and negotiate various third-party agreements, including music, footage and images, artwork and recognizable structures, apps, and other third-party rights

• Recruits, interviews, hires, and trains new staff
• Oversees the daily workflow of the team
• Provides constructive and timely performance evaluations
• Handles discipline and termination of employees in accordance with company policy

• Experience in advertising business affairs
• Must have extensive SAG experience
• Experience with contract negotiations with clients and third parties
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Strong attention to detail and ability to juggle multiple projects at once
• A passion for helping teams create their very best work in the smartest way possible
• A passion for creativity

• Full-time role, currently hybrid status
• In-person/in-office minimum of 3 days per week

• Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer

Our Publicis Groupe motto “Viva La Différence” means we’re better together, and we believe that…