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For over 30 years, NEP has been the leading worldwide technical production partner for content producers of live sports, entertainment and corporate events. Our innovative, end-to-end solutions include centralized and remote production, specialty capture, wireless video and audio, virtual and live studio production, AV and lighting services, host broadcast support, postproduction, connectivity and transmission, premium playout, software-based products and integrated managed services. With operations in 25 countries and 4,000+ employees, we have supported productions in 88 countries on all seven continents. 

Anywhere, anytime, on any platform—we help our clients make, manage and show the world their content. 

The Head of Procurement is responsible for developing a strategic approach to the procurement process for the purchase of key direct goods and services at NEP.   Procurement activities currently happen locally and are not coordinated, leading to inefficiencies and missed opportunities. In this leadership role, the individual will be responsible for setting up processes to coordinate the procurement of goods and services for NEP worldwide and develop a procurement program that will add value and efficiency to the organization. This will be done with a mix of decision-making authority, collaborative influencing and team building.    The Head of Procurement will be expected to take the lead in establishing and enriching relationships with key suppliers and directly negotiate key deals with those suppliers.

We are seeking candidates from the eastern United States or the London, UK region.

What You Will Do 

• Establish a global purchasing community and build procurement capability to ensure a consistent approach to negotiations with key suppliers
• Design and implement a global procurement strategy 
• Understand global needs and lead negotiations with key strategic partners
• Directly manage the US purchasing team
• Indirectly manage non-US purchasing teams 

FilmRise is looking to hire a Digital Content Programming Coordinator to directly support our Sales team while focusing on domestic and international platforms. We are looking for someone with strong communication, interpersonal and organizational skills. Previous experience with digital content programming is also required.

The coordinator will manage clients for various emerging OTT verticals including but not limited to US Hispanic and Latin American/Brazilian platforms as well as a few US OTT accounts. This role will require fluency in Spanish as well as experience with distribution and curation of content.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to: 

• Managing programming and curation for various accounts
• Coordinating delivery of new content with internal and external operations teams
• Developing relationships with clients, looking for new ways to optimize revenue
• Using analytics to guide timely offerings 
• Programing and scheduling FilmRise FAST channels for Spanish language partners

MLB Network seeks a Counsel, Business & Legal Affairs with strong knowledge and understanding of legal and business issues related to media, strong negotiation and drafting skills and a solid understanding of business issues. The Counsel, Business & Legal Affairs, will handle a variety of matters, including contract summary/tracking/management, confidentiality, talent agreements, service agreements, content acquisition agreements, licensing agreements, third party rights clearances, affiliation agreements and general contract matters.
RESPONSIBILITIES:

Specific responsibilities include:

• Draft and/or negotiate a wide variety of agreements including talent agreements, affiliate distribution agreements, content acquisition agreements, services agreements and agreements related to remote program productions (e.g., crewer, truck, vendor and equipment rental agreements).
• Assist with counseling various departments on transactional and legal matters.
• Oversee administration and compliance with of standards and practices for day-to-day production related matters including analyzing, identifying and resolving any business or legal issues in creative content.
• Track, analyze and summarize various agreement terms.
• Advise various departments on interpretations of specific contract terms
• Advise relevant departments on production issues, including defamation, music licensing and rights and clearances.
• General contract review.
• Support senior attorney/Company, as needed.
• As assigned, communicate with / provide support to overall MLB-wide legal activities.
• Other such duties as required.
It is expected that the Counsel, Business & Legal Affairs will maintain and increase knowledge in media law as well as the business on an ongoing basis.