Director, Contract Administration
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** This role sits in Burbank, CA, and this person is required to be on-site, 4 days/ week**
Role Summary
The Director, Contract Administration, is the leader of the Contract Administration team, and oversees all aspects of contract administration and development payment processes for Walt Disney Pictures, 20th Century Studios, Searchlight Pictures, and Walt Disney Animation Studios. This role reports to the Deputy Chief Counsel, Production Legal, Administration & Operations.
The Team
The Contract Administration team manages contracts, facilitates development payments, tracks producing overall deals and rights expirations, and ensures that our writers, directors, producers, and rightsholders are timely and properly paid in accordance with their contracts and all guild and union requirements. The team works closely with Business Affairs, Legal Affairs, Creative, Payroll, Accounts Payable, Production Finance, Labor Relations, and Physical Production across Walt Disney Pictures, 20th Century Studios, Searchlight Pictures, and Walt Disney Animation Studios. The team is currently composed of a Manager, five Contract Administrators and one Contract Administration Coordinator.
Responsibilities
Contract Analysis – review talent agreements to identify rights and financial obligations, summarize key terms, conduct rights research, and generate reports as needed.
Payments and Contract Administration – stay current on payroll systems, guild and tax rules; advise Business Affairs and Legal Affairs on compliance; coordinate with external reps; support payment processing from development through production; and manage turnaround/abandonment workflows.
Calendaring/Notices – monitor and update critical development and production dates; send weekly reminders to studio executives; and ensure rights-related deadlines are included in department agendas.
Database Consultation/Testing – collaborate with IT to improve internal contract database, define best practices, and lead testing of system updates.
Reporting – provide deal precedent data to Business Affairs and Legal Affairs; create and refine reports from internal database; and analyze contracts for scheduled and ad-hoc reporting.
Labor Matters – partner with Labor Relations to address WGA late payment claims and support union negotiations with ad-hoc reporting.
Legal Matters – advise Legal Affairs on payroll, accounts payable, and tax policy compliance.
Team Leadership and Strategic Planning – lead and develop a team of contract administrators, providing strategic oversight, ensuring compliance with organizational policies, and driving process improvements to support business objectives.
Basic Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience
8 –10 years of experience in contract administration, legal operations, or business affairs within the entertainment industry.
Minimum 5 years of experience managing a team
Knowledge of payroll processes and applicable guild and union requirements, procedures, terminology, policies and standards.
Strong analytical, organization, time-management and prioritization skills, with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously, multi-task and prioritize deadlines and deliverables.
Excellent written and oral communication skills
Detail-oriented mindset with exceptional proofreading skills
Ability to interact, collaborate and communicate with personnel of various levels throughout the studio.
Must be able to read and interpret legal contracts and guild and union collective bargaining agreements
Prior work experience at a major studio
Tech savvy mindset, with strong proficiency with the Microsoft Office Suite (e.g., Word, Excel, Outlook, Teams), and familiarity with document management systems (e.g., NetDocuments) and complex databases used to track deals, key dates and payments. Proven ability to lead the adoption and integration of AI-enabled tools, automation and smart technologies to enhance accuracy, efficiency and strategic insights in contract administration processes.
The hiring range for this position in Burbank, CA is $124,900.00 to $167,500.00 per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate’s geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to the full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.
Sobre The Walt Disney Company (Corporate):
Na área empresarial da Disney, você pode ver como os negócios por trás das marcas mais poderosas da empresa se reúnem para criar a mais inovadora, conhecida e admirada empresa de entretenimento do mundo. Como integrante de uma equipe empresarial, você trabalhará com líderes de padrão internacional para promover estratégias que mantêm a The Walt Disney Company na vanguarda do entretenimento. Veja e seja visto por outros pensadores inovadores enquanto possibilita que os melhores contadores de histórias do mundo criem momentos inesquecíveis para milhões de famílias de todo o planeta.
Sobre The Walt Disney Company:
A The Walt Disney Company, juntamente com suas subsidiárias e afiliadas, é uma líder diversificada em entretenimento familiar e mídia internacional que inclui três segmentos principais de negócios: Disney Entertainment, ESPN e Disney Experiences. Desde seus primeiros passos como um estúdio de desenho animado na década de 1920 até se tornar o atual nome de destaque na indústria do entretenimento, a Disney orgulhosamente dá continuidade a seu legado de criação de histórias e experiências de padrão internacional para toda a família. As histórias, personagens e experiências da Disney tocam consumidores e visitantes de todas as partes do mundo. Com operações em mais de 40 países, nossos funcionários e colaboradores trabalham juntos para criar experiências de entretenimento adoradas por todos.
Esta vaga é oferecida junto à Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, que é parte de um segmento de negócios que chamamos de The Walt Disney Company (Corporate).
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