Vice President establishing centralized procurement for Canada’s largest Canadian - owned data center provider. Optimizing sourcing, contracts, supplier risk, and construction materials delivery.
About the role
- Vice President supporting Lionsgate’s entertainment production and distribution business. Negotiating media licensing, rights, and sales agreements across Canada, the United States, and Latin America.
Responsibilities
- Support licensing and distribution transactions across Canada, the United States and Latin America
- Negotiate and draft content licensing agreements with major broadcasters, digital platforms and strategic partners, including linear, SVOD, AVOD, FAST and transactional licensing arrangements
- Draft and negotiate other legal agreements, including NDAs and Settlement and Release agreements
- Manage and provide guidance to one direct report
- Support legal projects including reviewing chain-of-title, key art and marketing restrictions
- Maintain and update sales, licensing and distribution templates
- Assist with drafting and negotiating acquisition, banking, financing and related agreements
- Identify and implement process improvements to enhance operational efficiency and consistency
- Participate in business, sales, pipeline and status meetings and provide legal guidance on deal strategy, rights issues and transaction execution
- Liaise with domestic and global sales teams on deal tracking and sales agreements
- Liaise with clients regarding commercial deal points on contracts
- Liaise with contract administration on contract management and rights management information
- Collaborate with Sales, Rights Management, Tax, Finance, Technical Operations and other stakeholders to facilitate deal execution, payment structuring, rights management and compliance
Requirements
- Qualified lawyer with 5-8 years post-call experience with professional legal training
- BS/BA, LLB or JD from an accredited institution
- Licensed in good standing to practice law in Canada
- Substantial experience in intellectual property law, licensing and distribution, including drafting and negotiation
- Familiarity with commercial media agreements, including copyright licenses, rights assignments, music publishing agreements and sales agency agreements
- Excellent drafting and communication skills, including with non-legal departments
- Good negotiation techniques with a commercial, problem solving and collaborative approach
- Familiarity with television, digital, SVOD, AVOD, FAST, TVOD and transactional content distribution models is an asset
- Ability to manage high volume of work across many projects and time zones and ability to multi-task
- Basic understanding of the Canadian media ecosystem, including CanCon certification and CRTC regulations
- Ability to work in both English and French is considered an asset
Benefits
- Competitive health and dental coverage
- Dedicated Health Spending Account
- Group RRSP with employer match
- Regular film screenings
- Opportunity to get involved in industry events
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