Associate Director, Business Affairs de - Berlin, Deutschland - Audible

Audible

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Berlin, Deutschland

vor 2 Wochen

Geschrieben von:

Lena Wagner

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Beschreibung

Good storytelling starts with great listening. At Audible, that means each role and every project has our audience in mind. Because the same people who design, develop, and deploy our products also happen to use them. To us, that speaks volumes.

ABOUT THIS ROLE
Based in Berlin, Audible GmbH is looking for an Associate Director, Business Affairs DE.

You will manage the local activities and teams to build deal terms and execute negotiations for our agreements with global and local original creators, authors, narrators, production vendors & celebrities across Germany, France, Italy and Spain.

You will be responsible for all Audible GmbH's economic terms with Europe's content creators and business development vendors from the non-book world.

The relationships will be developed in liaison with our Global, European & International Content Acquisition teams, to provide the leading spoken word catalogue for all our European audiences.

This position is initially open through a 24-months contract.

As an Associate Director, Business Affairs DE, you will...

Develop the quality and efficiency of all our European deal terms, negotiations, and agreements to support our direct relations to content creators for German, French, Italian & Spanish spoken word content.
Manage the deal architecture, deal terms and daytoday deal requirements for Audible's owned and original content.
Collaborate with the global cross functional teams to develop deal strategy, formulate key terms including all related analysis, strategizing and planning for a variety of complex agreements ranging from production to marketing commitments, and negotiations with local or global creators and celebrities.

Berlin, BE, DEU

Basic Qualifications

Professional Degree (JD, MBA, M.A., M.S., or other postgraduate degree) in relevant field.
Experienced in international intellectual property rights licensing businesses (preferable from the wider media, television, film or computer game industry) to create cutting edge agreements where there is no precedent.
Business fluency in written and verbal English and German. Additional European languages are a plus.
A welldeveloped track record of conducting complex, high profile negotiations that rely on economic understanding and human interaction to achieve the goals of the company.

Preferred Qualifications

An ability to inspire trust and followership in external vendors, and internal team members and peers through passion, charisma, bias for action and intuitive drive towards an inclusive and emotional intelligent working environment.
Experience in professional relationship building with creative organizations (e.g. Writers Guild, Actors Guild or equivalent etc.).
Ability to operate in a highenergy, highintensity and rapidly evolving environment.
Ability to communicate clearly, pragmatically and persuasively, also under aggressive timelines, complexity and ambiguity of a global rights landscape and fast moving business environment.
Strong communication skillset, with the ability to effectively communicate visions, ideas, articulate the possible in a simple manner across different levels of an organization internally and externally, up to the support of the creation of C-Level presentations.
Willingness to travel internationally for business.

ABOUT AUDIBLE
At Audible, we innovate and inspire through the power of voice. We're changing the narrative on storytelling.

As a leading creator and provider of premium audio storytelling, we've redefined the ways people access, discover, and share stories.

The stories we tell have the ability to transport and transform everyday moments into meaningful experiences and it's our people who make Audible's service possible.

We're listeners, storytellers, and problem-solvers.

Our perspectives and experiences power our ideas and come together in our mission to unleash the power of the spoken word.

Audible offers a Hub+Home hybrid workplace model that gives employees flexibility between gathering in an Audible workspace (work from hub) and remote work (work from home).

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Audible is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace.

Audible is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of ethnic origin, gender, religion or belief, disability, age, sexual identity, or any other legally protected status.

We therefore ask you to exclude unnecessary information, such as a photo, date or place of birth, gender identification, family and marital status, nationality, religion etc.

from your CV or resume. Thank you for doing your part to create equal opportunities for everyone.