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Macmillan US is seeking an Associate Manager for Training & Documentation to assist with the transition to a new royalty system by documenting workflows, conducting training, and supporting impacted teams.

Responsibilities: Key responsibilities include documenting current workflows, facilitating changes, providing training, and creating onboarding materials for new hires.

Skills: Candidates should have strong communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills, along with 5+ years in business analysis or training documentation.

Qualifications: Preferred qualifications include software implementation experience and familiarity with royalties and subrights accounting.

Location: This position is based in New York, New York, United States.

Compensation: $57000 - $65000 / Annually

Macmillan US has migrated to a new royalty system and is looking for a Training & Documentation Specialist to provide support for the teams whose workflow has been affected by the rollout of the new system.

This position will be responsible for fully documenting the current workflows of the royalties department, subrights accounting department, contracts department, and subrights sales team (as their work pertains to royalties/subrights accounting); facilitating conversations around proposed changes to workflow; and providing training on the documented processes to the involved teams. This role will also be responsible for designing an onboarding training program for any new hires on the affected teams.

What you'll do:

• Conduct interviews with key stakeholders to build a detailed process document capturing all current steps
• Collaborate with the project team, key stakeholders, and others to define and document workflows that will support users in the new royalties system
• Identify any gaps in process that need to be addressed
• Write and maintain training documentation for all areas of the business that interact with the royalties module. This documentation is expected to grow and develop over time.
• Participate in weekly project-related meetings 
• Serve as an information resource, develop resource materials, provide ongoing support Capabilities
• Problem solving
• Personal effectiveness and professionalism
• Strategy and planning

What you'll bring:

• 5+ years business analyst or training documentation experience
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team
• Software implementation experience a plus
• Experience with royalties, subrights accounting, and/or Biblio strongly preferred

This role will have an annual salary of $57k-$65k.

Macmillan Publishers is the U.S. trade company that is part of the Holtzbrinck Publishing Group, a large family-owned group of media companies headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany. Holtzbrinck Publishing Group's publishing companies include prominent imprints around the world that publish a broad range of award-winning books for children and adults in all categories and formats.

U.S. publishers include Celadon Books, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Flatiron Books, Henry Holt & Company, Macmillan Audio, Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group, The St. Martin's Publishing Group, and Tor Publishing Group. In the UK, Australia, India, and South Africa, companies in the Holtzbrinck Publishing Group publish under the Pan Macmillan name. The German publishing company, Holtzbrinck Deutsche Buchverlage, includes among its imprints S. Fischer, Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Rowohlt, and Droemer Knaur.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are actively seeking job applicants who reflect a broad representation of differences, including race, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, physical ability, neurodiversity, age, family status, economic background and status, geographical background and status, and perspective. We believe that the best companies reflect the incredible diversity in viewpoints, backgrounds, and identities of the world in their staffs, and are committed to inclusive hiring across departments and levels. The successful candidate for this position will be an employee of Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC.