Rights Manager Nel

1 week ago

Toronto, Ontario, Canada Corus Entertainment Full time

Are you creative, dynamic and passionate? Do you like to think outside of the box and find new ways to achieve your goals? Corus Entertainment has an exciting opportunity for you.

If you have a passion for excellence, and would like to work for Corus Entertainment, we encourage you to apply.


Division:
Legal, Regulatory and Governance

Work Status:
Contract

Location:
Toronto, ON.

About the Role


Corus' Legal, Regulatory and Governance team is seeking an exceptional individual to join our team as a Rights Manager for Corus' content development, production and distribution businesses.

Reporting to the Associate General Counsel, Head of Technology, Legal Operations and Rights Management, you will be a core member of Corus' rights management team, managing the analysis and tracking of rights owned or acquired by Corus and acting as a key advisor on rights to our content production, merchandising, and distribution teams, particularly for Nelvana, Corus' award-winning animation studio, and our Corus Studios international distribution business.


You'll be working on things like:

  • Review and analyze various inbound rights/content-related agreements (including underlying rights, option/development, composer, co-production and distribution rights agreements) to update and maintain accurate rights information in Nelvana's rights management system (Jaguar)
  • Review, generate and maintain documentation of chain of title for all new Nelvana properties
  • Provide conflict checks and availability reports with respect to Nelvana and Corus Studios titles to Sales executives
  • Work closely with Finance, Legal, Original Programming, Production Studio, and Sales to provide accurate and timely rights information to support Nelvana and Corus Studios' business activities
  • Ensure integrity of data within rights management systems to assist business with contractual compliance as well as meeting internal audit standards
  • Resolve issues and system errors as they relate to contracts, finance and downstream systems as they arise
  • Collaborate crossfunctionally to optimize processes and ensure efficient flow of information and speed to revenue
  • Special projects as needed/assigned by the Associate General Counsel
If you have the following we want to hear from you

  • Bachelor's degree or college diploma, or relevant industry experience
  • Minimum 35 years experience working in rights management or business/legal affairs, preferably with experience at a production or distribution company or similar
  • Experience engaging with and interpreting production and distributionrelated contracts, with a particular preference for those who are able to interpret and analyze media rights
  • Strong understanding of current media and content distribution platforms, media rights, and business models
  • Strong time management skills with a demonstrated ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects and deadlines
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Mature and diplomatic
  • Serviceoriented mindset and approach
  • Techsavvy and comfortable learning new systems quickly
  • Comfortable with managing through change
  • A passion for innovation and continuous improvement
  • Collaborative, able to work crossfunctionally with other teams effectively
  • Project management or experience working on crossfunctional projects an asset
  • Experience working in a rights management system an asset
Why Corus?


Corus is a driving force in the media industry with a diverse portfolio of strong brands that entertain and inform audiences through great storytelling and compelling content, reaching millions of people around the world every day.


We have a passionate drive to connect with the world around us: to express, to share, to be part of people's lives.

Walk around our offices, our stations, our studios across the country and you'll feel it. You'll see it in action.

You'll see it in the open communication and the approachability of our people. You'll see it in our care for quality work and the interest in new, creative solutions. You'll see it in how we work with external partners, and how we care about our communities.

These are all core to the values we commit to living each and every day - Win Together, Think Beyond, Make It Happen, Learn Every Day, Show We Care.

Our values describe what makes us, and our workplace pretty unique - and amazing.

Corus is also committed to providing accommodations throughout the interview and employment process. If you require an accommodation, we will work with you to meet your needs.

How to Apply

  • No phone calls please. Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

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