Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Risk / Legal Assessment: 

• Red flag creative prior to external counsel legal review 
• Send boards and/or script to insurance and talent payment companies to assess legal risk - required as needed, multiple phone calls with production. 

General: 

• New vendor set up 
• Advise on client production guidelines and client MSA. 
• Ballpark costs with Producer to gauge client feasibility. 
• Discuss and verify all usage terms for talent and/or music.
• Partner with Producer on bid specs. 
• Review and negotiate all vendor bids with Producer and partner with Production Consultant for feedback and approval. Triple bid Policy in effect. 
• If 3rd party rights are applicable, advise team on best practice. 
• Mentor and provide guidance to other members on the team

Talent: 

• Advise on SAG guidelines per project specs; Secure talent releases if needed.
• Estimate talent for shoot and secure production consultant approval, if required. 
• Facilitate talent background check with Agency legal when applicable. 
• Manage talent procurement process with external partners for all celebrity talent contracts, act as agency liaison between vendor, account, and client.
• Manage multiple talent requests to confirm existing usage, new estimate requests for potential usage with Talent Manager. 
• Secure waivers for all stunt performers and liaising with Client & Agency legal to approve language, when applicable. 
• Secure SAG waivers as needed, i.e. Live event, Testimonial, Low Budget Digital. 
• Process Talent contracts and provide input on completion reports to ensure usage is captured accurately for all deliverables and residuals are accounted for.

Contractual: 

• Draft and execute production contracts, live action, VFX, animation, etc. 
• Draft and execute all production release forms needed. I.e. IPR, props, location, branding, etc. 
• Secure all required insurances through insurance company including special insurance, general liability insurance, aircraft, drone, etc. 
• Manage project with Omnicom Risk to secure all required insurances section when applicable such as a live event etc. 
• Music Licensing - negotiate all terms with all rights owners. If applicable, work with music procurement company. Contact AFM for estimates of costs associated with using tracks. 
• Partner with Producer to secure all stock footage and image rights. 
• Manage vendor negotiations and disputes of legal documents (contracts, NDA, PO terms, licenses).

Finance: 

• Issue/manage all vendor PO’s and invoices; Manage vendor follow-up on payment
• Follow up with account on client estimate approval to ensure vendor payment. 
• Maintain job status reports to ensure costs incurred are accurate. Request job
• transfers as needed. 
• Input client specific budget details in tracking docs 
• Reconcile jobs; work with Finance on job closings.
• Maintain accurate timesheets that are completed by required deadlines

Who We Are:

We are a modern, integrated agency created and managed by Omnicom to lead all marketing and communications globally for Nissan. Designed to deliver marketing transformation, Nissan United is dedicated to helping Nissan grow its brand value around the world more effectively. The team brings expertise in data, analytics, media, customer experience and CRM, all of which help drive and inspire innovation and creativity. 

Nissan United is housed within TBWA, AdWeek’s 2021 Global Agency of the Year and one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies. TBWA is the Disruption agency, known for a long history of famous creative campaigns for some of the world’s greatest brands and home to Apple’s dedicated TBWA\Media Arts Lab. TBWA is at the cutting edge of building the most innovative agency models and teams.

TBWA\Chiat\Day Values

Our ambition is to create ideas for our clients that lift their businesses and brands.

Ideas are our business. We believe that great ideas can come from anywhere.

Certain attitudes define how we work and are important in what we seek for our culture.

TBWA\Chiat\Day Attitudes

Curiosity: Be open minded to ideas wherever they come; curious people are often unafraid of change;

Collaboration: Self-confidence without a big ego; work with all types of people;

Integrity: What we say is what we do; it is honesty and respect in our dealings with people;

Resourcefulness: To find ways to do whatever we have to do for our clients, and our people.

The job requires you to have a COVID vaccine. If you have a medical or religious reason for not receiving the COVID vaccine, the agency will engage in a discussion with you about whether there is a viable accommodation that can be provided.