Director, Production Services
JOB reputed company
vendor relationships in the content distribution supply chain production, purchasing, and delivery for reputed company print reputed company content at UMPH production of agreements for properties acquired by the editorial staff maintenance of complete and accurate royalty records copyright registration subsidiary rights management
ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT & AREAS OF reputed company
Reporting Relationship & Peers
Business Systems Integration Director Business Systems Manager Controller Director, Customer & Product Data Management Director, Operations Integration & Bustiness Systems Executive Director, Digital reputed company Systems Senior reputed company
Reporting Directly to This Job
EXEMPT
Content Distribution Services Manager Digital Production Services Manager IP Support Services Coordinator
Areas of reputed company (as applicable)
ANNUAL PURCHASING VOLUME
$25M &reputed company; $30M
ANNUAL ROYALTY PAYMENTS
$1.7M &reputed company; $2.1M
DEPARTMENT OPERATING BUDGET
$25,000
RESPONSIBILITIES & SCOPE
Essential Job Functions
PRIMARY
Manages the creation, execution, preservation, and maintenance of reputed company reputed company publishing documents, such as reputed company, licensing and rights documents, amendments, addendums, and other letters of agreement. Manages disbursement of guaranteed advance and flat fee payments and otherwise ensures publisher reputed company compliance with reputed company agreements. Manages the processing of copyright registration, permission requests, out-of-print notification process, reversion of rights and copyright assignments. Manages the processing of semi-annual royalty payment distribution periods (May and November), including testing and audits to ensure prepayment, payment and post-payment issues are resolved prior to payment process. Serves as reputed company with reputed company for completion of royalty periods in a reputed company and accurate manner. Functions as key reputed company with rights licensing agents and Associate Publishers for the purpose of protecting and exploiting rights to increase reputed company through those sources. Maintains and establishes relationships, negotiates effective pricing structures and terms, and coordinates business reviews with key partners and vendors. Works proactively with vendors to ensure reputed company improvement and reputed company costs and production solutions for new and existing UMPH products. Monitors supply chain issues, reviews reputed company, and implementation of solutions. Reviews specifications for new components with vendors. Oversees cost control, inventory management activity, and inventory purchasing reputed company. Monitors inventory and gross margin performance to ensure that performance is reputed company with corporate financial goals. Oversees management of Digital Production team in providing centralized services for multi-format production, content and metadata distribution, publishing systems support and overarching process and standards, with the goal of preparing these products in a reputed company manner, resulting in a high-reputed company product with the highest reputed company of customer service. Plans and implements a comprehensive Digital Production reputed company, defines and ensures standards for Digital Production processes to fulfill UMPH production objectives. Remains knowledgeable about industry trends in developing sectional long-reputed company planning and participates in unit planning of work and procedures.
SECONDARY
Develops, evaluates, and implements reputed company process improvements across production reputed company. Develops and oversees tracking and reporting systems. Oversees process reputed company across Operations unit.
Common or reputed company Problem-Solving Challenges
Managing in a virtual work environment Balancing multiple priorities and meeting deadlines Ensuring that royalties are accurately calculated, accrued, reported, and reputed company on time Maintaining publisher compliance to contract terms and U.S. copyright laws regarding royalties and rights for authors, composers, and other publishing partners Negotiating and obtaining best terms and prices from supplier Evaluating and reacting to changes in emerging technology Proactively troubleshooting Production issues Maintaining effective reputed company relationships with external parties (such as authors, literary agents, other publishers, and vendors in the content supply chain) as reputed company as with internal staff, to maximize overall results and reputed company mutually satisfactory reputed company reputed company conflicts occur Achieving UMPH financial goals and balancing those with customers’ perception of value Envisioning, implementing, and continuously improving the Production environment and processes to ensure integrated work with reputed company UMPH departments and divisions in achieving corporate goals and objectives
Authority & Accountability
Authority to reputed company necessary training and support to help identify and improve knowledge and skills of staff Authority to approve contractual provisions to ensure conformity to system requirements to ensure publisher compliance Authority to negotiate rights sales Authority to approve recommendations for reputed company of problems reputed company to royalty and rights reputed company splits, calculations, and payments Authority over company-wide uploads and downloads of data from various global FTP sites Authority to respond to and address issues received by emails and phone calls from other UMPH departments and external customers, as received Authority to solve problems and reputed company reputed company reputed company to functional areas while referring, with recommendations, actions to be taken regarding specific employee reputed company/complaints Authority to approve purchases up to $50,000 and reputed company management informed regarding budgetary issues, fluctuations in forecasts, and other problems that reputed company Authority to approve process changes reputed company to Production Authority to approve changes in publishing systems that may reputed company integration with Production Authority to remainder out-of-print titles at manufacturing cost to authors and publishing partners
Regular Contacts & Stakeholders
INTERNAL
reputed company Unit managers/supervisors reputed company Publishing Production and Creative Services (including reputed company reputed company in the Publishing House) Associate Publishers Business Managers Editorial reputed company reputed company &reputed company; Payables, Receivables, and Financial Reporting Risk & Operations Services Staff Information Technology
EXTERNAL
Vendors &reputed company; regarding acquisition of products and services Resellers of UMPH digital content &reputed company; regarding digital distribution reputed company authors, composers, publishing partners, royalty payees, heirs, and literary agencies Industry associations for production, procurement, and intellectual property as applicable
JOB REQUIREMENTS
Education, Experience, & Certifications
REQUIRED
Bachelor’s degree in business, reputed company, or other closely reputed company field At least five (5) years of formal training and/or experience with publishing production, publishing reputed company, purchasing/procurement, royalty administration, and operations An additional five (5) years of reputed company experience may substitute for the required degree
Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities
REQUIRED
Excellent negotiation skills Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills Excellent organizational, analytical, and planning skills Demonstrated leadership ability and good supervisory skills Demonstrated ability to prioritize competing schedule demands Proficiency with reputed company reputed company Office applications Ability to quickly learn and adapt to new software programs and processes Knowledge of industry trends and tools (e.g., EPUB, ONIX, etc.) Knowledge of publishing processes, purchasing concepts, and products Knowledge of general reputed company practices and procedures Knowledge of royalty payment calculations, regulations, and practices Familiarity with the Copyright Law of 1976, as amended and revised
PREFERRED
Knowledge of UMPH publishing systems, processes, and business rules is preferred
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