Description: Marketing Business Affairs Lead

About us:

Target is an iconic, beloved and well recognized
brand, a Fortune 50 company and one of America's leading retailers.

Fueling
the continued success of one of the world's most beloved and recognized brands
is a distinctly capable, creative and innovative Marketing organization. Target
Marketing is well known for inspiring and surprising guests, and we pride
ourselves on connecting them to the products and experiences they expect and
deserve from Target. We study our guests to discover new needs and insights,
and then craft every interaction to build brand love. We are market experts who
insist on a clear and cohesive understanding of our business objectives, guest
segments and behaviors, strategies and tactics, overcoming obstacles and
measuring success. Our commitment to partnering both internally and with
external agencies gives us a wide range of capabilities, from award-winning
creative work to exciting and unique promotional marketing. Leveraging our
collective assets and fostering a healthy, supportive and open team culture, we
deliver a holistically gratifying experience that guests can only get at Target.

Target Creative is the in-house creative
agency dedicated to bringing one of the world's most beloved and recognizable
brands to life. Whether through design, marketing or brand work, we are the
driving force behind delivering Target's dynamic, inventive and unmistakable
storytelling to its massive global audience. Our mission is to inspire a sense
of joy, wonder and excitement, and to take our guests-and
ourselves-somewhere new. Never resting on past wins or settling for anything
less than extraordinary, our origin story built us to thrive in the competitive
and changing retail marketplace. We tell a compelling and cohesive brand story,
maximizing our messages across multiple platforms-whether via a digital art
gallery or a new $1 billion children's clothing brand. Operating as one fully
integrated team in both the U.S. and overseas, Target Creative comprises the
best and brightest talent to execute market-leading creative strategy,
design, writing, video production, operations, digital, UX, social media
and more. We leverage smart and rewarding external partnerships while closely
aligning with our Target teams. Together, we tackle every creative challenge
with our amplified strengths, ultimately bearing the groundbreaking creative
work that helps make Target the decisive guest favorite, year after year.

As a Business Affairs
Lead, you will manage all business
facets of content partnerships and production, including production and talent agreements,
licensing and clearances, scoping legal issues and interpreting contracts as they
relate to specific productions across Target Creative. This role will also
manage influencer/talent approach, negotiations, contracts and facilitate
payment to ensure consistency and holistic oversight. You will have additional
responsibility as the liaison between business and creative teams, external
agencies and legal counsel to address and minimize liability/risk and create
solutions. You will work across all
creative production helping establish best practices and firming up all
business affairs related processes.

Core responsibilities of this job are described within this job
description. Job duties may change at
any time due to business needs.

About you:

• BA, JD or Paralegal
• Expertise in business affairs, creative production and talent
  including influencer and celebrities
• Minimum of 8 years prior experience in rights related
  positions in the advertising, entertainment or social media industry
• Extensive up-to-date industry knowledge on licensing issues
  in a wide variety of media
• Ability to partner with Legal and others in the application
  of legal standards in marketing, including:
  production contracts, talent contracts, SAG-AFTRA, overscale/celebrity,
  and non-union talent agreements, music licensing, clearances and licensing of
  third-party materials, right of publicity, and copyright and trademark
  considerations.
• Can demonstrate leadership and influence in a
  complex organization; exercising sound strategic, legal and business judgment
  in challenging situations; independent and proactive
• Superior organizational, prioritization and time management
  skills; ability to execute against multiple, high-priority projects, with a
  keen attention to detail
• Superior communication skills; ability to explain complex
  legal and business issues with clarity and simplicity to partners

Qualifications: