Director, Contract Administration
Postuler maintenant Postuler ultérieurement Job ID 10132143 Emplacement Burbank, Californie, États-Unis Entreprise The Walt Disney Company (Corporate) Date de publication 27/10/2025Résumé du poste:
** This role sits in Burbank, CA, and this person is required to be on-site, 4 days/ week**
Role Summary
The Director, Contract Administration, is the leader of the Contract Administration team, and oversees all aspects of contract administration and development payment processes for Walt Disney Pictures, 20th Century Studios, Searchlight Pictures, and Walt Disney Animation Studios. This role reports to the Deputy Chief Counsel, Production Legal, Administration & Operations.
The Team
The Contract Administration team manages contracts, facilitates development payments, tracks producing overall deals and rights expirations, and ensures that our writers, directors, producers, and rightsholders are timely and properly paid in accordance with their contracts and all guild and union requirements. The team works closely with Business Affairs, Legal Affairs, Creative, Payroll, Accounts Payable, Production Finance, Labor Relations, and Physical Production across Walt Disney Pictures, 20th Century Studios, Searchlight Pictures, and Walt Disney Animation Studios. The team is currently composed of a Manager, five Contract Administrators and one Contract Administration Coordinator.
Responsibilities
Contract Analysis – review talent agreements to identify rights and financial obligations, summarize key terms, conduct rights research, and generate reports as needed.
Payments and Contract Administration – stay current on payroll systems, guild and tax rules; advise Business Affairs and Legal Affairs on compliance; coordinate with external reps; support payment processing from development through production; and manage turnaround/abandonment workflows.
Calendaring/Notices – monitor and update critical development and production dates; send weekly reminders to studio executives; and ensure rights-related deadlines are included in department agendas.
Database Consultation/Testing – collaborate with IT to improve internal contract database, define best practices, and lead testing of system updates.
Reporting – provide deal precedent data to Business Affairs and Legal Affairs; create and refine reports from internal database; and analyze contracts for scheduled and ad-hoc reporting.
Labor Matters – partner with Labor Relations to address WGA late payment claims and support union negotiations with ad-hoc reporting.
Legal Matters – advise Legal Affairs on payroll, accounts payable, and tax policy compliance.
Team Leadership and Strategic Planning – lead and develop a team of contract administrators, providing strategic oversight, ensuring compliance with organizational policies, and driving process improvements to support business objectives.
Basic Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience
8 –10 years of experience in contract administration, legal operations, or business affairs within the entertainment industry.
Minimum 5 years of experience managing a team
Knowledge of payroll processes and applicable guild and union requirements, procedures, terminology, policies and standards.
Strong analytical, organization, time-management and prioritization skills, with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously, multi-task and prioritize deadlines and deliverables.
Excellent written and oral communication skills
Detail-oriented mindset with exceptional proofreading skills
Ability to interact, collaborate and communicate with personnel of various levels throughout the studio.
Must be able to read and interpret legal contracts and guild and union collective bargaining agreements
Prior work experience at a major studio
Tech savvy mindset, with strong proficiency with the Microsoft Office Suite (e.g., Word, Excel, Outlook, Teams), and familiarity with document management systems (e.g., NetDocuments) and complex databases used to track deals, key dates and payments. Proven ability to lead the adoption and integration of AI-enabled tools, automation and smart technologies to enhance accuracy, efficiency and strategic insights in contract administration processes.
The hiring range for this position in Burbank, CA is $126,800 to $170,000 per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate’s geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to the full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.
Sur The Walt Disney Company (Corporate):
Chez Disney Corporate, vous verrez comment les secteurs d’activités qui animent les marques puissantes de la société se rassemblent pour former la société de divertissement la plus novatrice, développée et admirée au monde. En tant que membre d’une équipe d’entreprise, vous travaillerez avec les leaders de classe mondiale qui mettent au point les stratégies qui permettent à The Walt Disney Company de rester à la pointe du divertissement. Collaborez avec d’autres penseurs novateurs pour permettre aux meilleurs conteurs de créer des souvenirs pour des millions de familles du monde entier.
Sur The Walt Disney Company:
The Walt Disney Company, ainsi que ses filiales et sociétés affiliées, forme l’une des principales entreprises internationales diversifiées de divertissement familial et de médias. Elle comprend trois secteurs d'activités essentiels : Disney Entertainment, ESPN et Disney Experiences. Depuis ses modestes débuts en tant que studio de dessins animés dans les années 1920 jusqu’à son statut de référence actuel dans le secteur du divertissement, Disney poursuit fièrement sa tradition de création d’histoires et d’expériences exceptionnelles pour tous les membres de la famille. Les histoires, les personnages et les expériences de Disney touchent les consommateurs et les visiteurs du monde entier. À travers nos activités présentes dans plus de 40 pays, nos employés et cast members collaborent pour créer des expériences de divertissement appréciées à la fois au niveau universel et local.
Le poste est rattaché à Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation , qui fait partie d’une entreprise que nous appelons The Walt Disney Company (Corporate).
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation est un employeur qui souscrit au principe d’égalité des chances à l’emploi. Les candidat(e)s seront pris(es) en considération pour un emploi sans distinction de race, de religion, de couleur, de sexe, d’orientation sexuelle, de genre, d’identité de genre, d’expression de genre, d’origine nationale, d’ascendance, d’âge, d’état matrimonial, de statut militaire ou d’ancien combattant, d’état de santé, d’informations génétiques ou de handicap, ou de tout autre motif interdit par la loi fédérale, étatique ou locale. Disney défend un environnement commercial où les idées et décisions de tous et toutes nous aident à grandir, innover, créer les meilleures histoires et être pertinents dans un monde en évolution constante.