Business Affairs Partner

For the past 28 years Klick Health has helped life science clients bring their groundbreaking ideas to market. We’ve also spent that time creating an ecosystem for talented and empathetic individuals to chase their passions while creating long-lasting friendships in the process. Our philosophy is to invest in people early and to develop future leaders at all levels. It’s what’s put us on multiple Top 10 lists for workplace culture—we give people the necessary guidance and room to innovate. If you feel like you’d be a good fit, please apply and join us in doing health differently.

Position Details

• Team: Production, as part of the Creative department
• Reports to: Executive Producer

Role Description And Expectations

As the Business Affairs Partner, you will be responsible for overseeing all talent and legal components of projects completed by the Production team. You will act as both a talent affairs manager and rights and licensing expert, supporting Producers and Creatives with securing the right talent and assets that are needed to create exceptional work. You are the person who keeps legal, compliance, and rights-ownership in check. You are a problem solver, creative partner and proactive negotiator. You are curious, tenacious and the perfect blend of a rule-follower and pioneer. In this role you will also be the key point of contact for Klick’s legal and finance teams, and will work closely with the Executive Producer and Supervising Producer to ensure all projects are appropriately contracted, licensed and paid. You can turn chaos into clarity and enjoy the process of doing so.

Key Accountabilities:

• Provide business strategic management leadership and ownership for the production team
• Provide guidance to junior members of business affairs and creative production
• Support key stakeholders across multiple Klick business units as a shared service leader
• Develop and implement effective processes and structures to streamline collaboration between the team, internal departments, and external partners.
• Ensure compliance with agency best practices and guidelines, including union agreements, employment regulations, client protocols, and Klick's standards.
• Collaborate with producers and the Executive Producer on the needs of contracts support
• Possesses extensive expertise and a thorough understanding of the processes and operations involved in development, production, acquisition, distribution, negotiation and licensing
• Manage SAG-AFTRA and ACTRA partnerships, and any other talent union relationships
• Understand the nuance and requirements of working with talent unions, union talent and non-union talent, in Canada, the United States and abroad
• Oversee all talent relationships, agent relationships, booking companies, casting firms, and their subsequent contracts and negotiations for actors, voice actors, models, influencers, celebrities, musicians, artists, performers, creators, freelance talent, etc.
• Propose, create, own and manage all templates, key documents and internal processes for business affairs, contract templates, key talent management documents, etc.
• Oversee rights and licensing for all work, including static and moving content, music, etc.
• Ensure all contracts, legal requirements and vendor agreements are negotiated effectively, approached with consistency and are financially optimized.

Soft Skills:

• Exceptional attention to detail, numbers, terms, and contract points
• This individual thrives in a fast-paced creative environment, bringing a collaborative spirit, innovative thinking, and a strong ability to contribute effectively as part of a team
• Ability to create structure while being flexible and collaborative
• Superior negotiation skills
• Exceptional multi-tasking capabilities
• Highly effective oral and written communications skills
• Sound judgment and decisive problem-solving abilities
• Ability to build stakeholder rapport and trust

Hard Skills:

• Deep familiarity with industry contracts and legal requirements for both Canada and United States
• Deep understanding and mastery of talent negotiations, rights, licensing and talent union pricing structures - able to confidently quote talent projects in new media, broadcast, digital, live, etc.
• Advanced people skills - training, performance management, evaluation
• Advanced resource management skills - time, quality and needs assessments

Education & Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree or Diploma in a related field is an asset
• 10+ years of experience managing talent, licenses and contracts in an agency environment
• Extensive experience in business affairs
• Experience working on a global-scale with contracts, legal, risk management, compliance, etc.
• Experience working in a broadcast agency setting is required
• Experience working with clients in life sciences is an asset

Klick is consciously creating a culture where everyone can thrive and grow in their careers. We believe that our best work comes from our diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We strongly encourage members of historically underrepresented communities to apply, including Black people, Indigenous peoples, and other people of colour, people with disabilities, people from gender and sexually diverse communities and people with intersectional identities.

We’re also committed to developing an inclusive, barrier-free recruitment process and work environment. Should you require any accommodation, please contact us at careers@klick.com and we will work with you to meet your accessibility needs and ensure you have a positive experience.