Analyst, Labor Relations

Sony Pictures Entertainment•Culver City, CA

About The Position

This role serves as an operational, analytical, and technology resource for the Labor Relations team. It combines AI-enabled research, process automation, data and cost analysis, contract administration, and an interest in entertainment industry labor relations. The Analyst uses and evaluates technology to improve Labor Relations workflows, supports collective bargaining and grievance and arbitration matters, and maintains organized records and resources for the team. The position also requires managing multiple time-sensitive assignments, anticipating team needs, exercising sound judgment, and handling confidential employee, labor, financial, and business information professionally. The successful candidate is curious, proactive, detail-oriented, and eager to learn the studio business and collective bargaining.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and relevant professional experience.
Two years of experience in analytical support, contract administration, business operations, or a similar role involving research, data analysis, document management, and administrative support.
Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including pivot tables, lookup functions, complex formulas, data manipulation, and analysis of large datasets.
Strong quantitative, analytical, and problem-solving skills, including the ability to interpret complex information, perform accurate calculations, identify trends, and develop practical solutions.
Demonstrated proficiency with AI tools and emerging technologies, including the ability to independently learn, configure, and develop practical technology-enabled solutions, automations, and workflows without specialized programming expertise.
Ability to critically evaluate and verify AI-generated information, research, and analyses for accuracy, reliability, and appropriate handling of confidential information.
Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, and other productivity applications; strong typing, note-taking, document-production, formatting, and proofreading skills.
Exceptional organization, attention to detail, and ability to manage complex documents, electronic filing systems, databases, and multiple concurrent projects.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, initiative, resourcefulness, sound judgment, and ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment.
Energy, curiosity, initiative, and enthusiasm for labor relations, with eagerness to learn the studio business and collective bargaining.
Ability to manage multiple time-sensitive assignments, prioritize effectively, anticipate needs, identify gaps, and take ownership without detailed direction.
Strong judgment, discretion, and professionalism in handling confidential information.

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with collective bargaining agreements, labor relations, legal research, or the entertainment industry; these are preferred but not required.

Responsibilities

Use AI, automation, and emerging technologies to improve the efficiency, accuracy, and effectiveness of Labor Relations processes and workflows.
Leverage, configure, and develop AI-enabled tools for contract research, agreement comparison, bargaining preparation, document and data analysis, precedent identification, and other Labor Relations needs.
Evaluate new technology, identify automation opportunities, guide tools through internal approval, and help drive adoption across the Labor Relations team.
Maintain, reconcile, and analyze complex datasets using advanced Microsoft Excel capabilities, including pivot tables, lookup functions, complex formulas, and data cleansing.
Support collective bargaining with data analysis and cost calculations, including evaluating wage proposals, benefit changes, premiums, escalators, retroactivity, and other economic terms.
Provide analytical, contract administration, research, documentation, and operational support to the Labor Relations team.
Support collective bargaining, grievance, and arbitration matters by organizing materials and tracking proposals, open items, deadlines, and economic terms.
Prepare comparisons, redlines, summaries, and analyses.
Develop working knowledge of collective bargaining agreements, side letters, memoranda of agreement, settlements, past practices, and other labor-related documents.
Maintain organized, searchable repositories of agreements, bargaining records, correspondence, precedents, and other Labor Relations materials.
Develop standardized templates, playbooks, trackers, checklists, and workflows to improve consistency, institutional knowledge, and execution.
Manage multiple time-sensitive assignments, prioritize work, deliver accurate work in a deadline-driven environment, anticipate needs, identify gaps, and take ownership of tasks.
Handle sensitive and confidential employee, labor, financial, and business information with sound judgment, discretion, and professionalism.