Title: Agency Asset Manager, Freddie Mac Location: Dallas United States Job Description: At Northmarq, you can be part of something special. Northmarq is a unique capital markets resource for commercial real estate investors, providing our clients access to experts in debt, equity, investment sales, loan servicing, and fund management. We offer you a career path with best-in-class training, and we foster inclusive teams committed to collaboration, mentoring, and growth. At Northmarq, we will help you unlock your potential – whether you are an industry veteran or you’re just getting started. Your new career is waiting. Start something special today. Northmarq was voted by Real Estate Forum as one of The Best Places to Work in Commercial Real Estate! Northmarq is seeking an experienced Agency Asset Manager, Freddie Mac to join their Dallas, TX office. This position requires a deadline-driven, service-focused, and detail-oriented individual who will be responsible for underwriting borrower consent requests, mentoring and training others within the department, calculating/coordinating loan payoffs, new loan audits, financial statement and rent roll analysis, watchlist monitoring, reserve disbursement requests, processing insurance losses, and satisfying investor requirements. Focus will be on commercial mortgage risk management and customer service. Additional responsibilities may be added to align with department strategies and objectives. *This role supports a flexible schedule that prioritizes in‑office teamwork, with flexibility for remote work when appropriate. Specific Responsibilities - Manage a portfolio of increasingly complex commercial real estate loans while strengthening relationships with key lenders and support senior team members with key tasks on more complex commercial real estate loans. Specific responsibilities include: - Work with a diverse range of Freddie Mac lenders, companies, private clients, and investment lenders, providing a personalized, client-centric experience tailored to each lender’s specific guidelines and requirements. - Provide premier customer service to lenders, borrowers, other servicing staff, and regional offices. - Analyze and make recommendations for lender consent of borrower requests, including lease approvals, maturity extensions, partial releases/substitutions of collateral, easements, condemnations, ownership transfers etc. - Review and make recommendations for releases from reserves including capital expenditure, repair, debt service reserve, rental achievement, TI/LC, and insurance loss. - Analyze annual and quarterly financial statements for multifamily and commercial properties in accordance with the requirements of Freddie Mac and conduit lenders. - Audit new loan boarding and setup to ensure loan terms and covenants were accurately captured in the servicing system. - Calculate and coordinate loan payoff requests, including yield maintenance calculations. - Coordinate with legal counsel and borrowers to document and close transactions upon final lender approval. - Monitor and update monthly loan reports utilized by lenders and management to analyze portfolio risk. - Process insurance loss requests, manage proceeds, and monitor the restoration of the property. - Follow up with borrowers to resolve any post-closing deferred maintenance items or other high-risk items identified during the annual inspection. - Follow up with borrowers regarding variances and general income and expense questions. - Monitor and collect outstanding mortgage payments, carefully documenting collection efforts. - Assist Manager(s) with monitoring team tasks, reviewing write-ups/recommendations, quality control, and lender feedback. - Perform financial covenant testing calculations including NOI, DSCR, debt yield, etc. - Review property repair verification inspections conducted by third party vendors and regional offices. - Provide training and mentoring across the team on areas of expertise including risk management, underwriting and general CRE knowledge. - Assist team members on advanced or complicated consent requests. - Minimal business travel for lender visits, industry/company conferences, etc. (1-3 times per year). - May participate in department strategic initiatives or serve on procedure committees updating policies for the Portfolio & Asset Management Department. - Strategically manage workload to uphold portfolio standards and align with departmental objectives. - Perform other reasonable tasks/projects as assigned within the department. Education and Work Experience - Bachelor’s Degree, preferably in the finance, real estate, or accounting area. - 4-7 years of experience in finance or accounting. Background in commercial lending or asset management preferred. - Strong skills in Microsoft Outlook, Excel, and Word - Strong knowledge of commercial real estate finance and commercial loan terminology - Demonstrate strong analytical, asset management and underwriting skills. - Demonstrated leadership and training abilities - Excellent verbal and written communication skills - Strong organizational and prioritization skills, with ability to manage multiple assignments while meeting deadlines - Ability to work both independently and within a team, with minimal supervision - Attention to detail and accuracy required - Problem-solving skills to reflect level of responsibilities - Ability to maintain sensitive and confidential information Northmarq offers a highly competitive benefits package including: medical, dental, vision, paid time off, 401K match and an annual discretionary contribution based on business performance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance, education assistance, volunteer paid time off, charitable contribution match and so much more!

Title: Contracts Manager Location: New York United States Job Description: We are looking for an experienced, highly detail-oriented and process-driven Contracts Manager to join our busy Trade Contracts team. The Contracts Manager will bring deep knowledge of the contract lifecycle and will have an essential role on the Contracts team, drafting and negotiating a high volume of contracts for trade books, including complex contract arrangements such as joint acquisitions with global sister companies, profit sharing agreements, and “takeovers” from self-published authors; advising Editorial and other colleagues on deal terms; handling special projects as needed at the direction of Sr. Director; and tracking status of, and interpreting and advising on, publishing agreements. This role will require adaptability, strong organizational and problem-solving skills, and precise attention to detail. What You'll Do - Draft and negotiate a wide range of publishing contracts and ancillary documentation, including complex profit sharing agreements, global joint acquisitions arrangements, and “takeovers” of self-published authors. Serve as a key escalation point for complex, high-value, and non-standard deal terms. - Ensure agreements align with company policies, including financial terms - Primary oversight of responses to Royalties queries, Biblio territories and ONIX updates. - Contract reversions, including possible future oversight of the reversions process. - Advise Editors, Publishers, Finance, and other colleagues on deal terms, agency boilerplate, and other publishing contract matters. - Utilizing expertise and fostering an environment of continuous improvement and with the goal of streamlining and improving Contracts Department operations while ensuring compliance, participate in special projects and in process improvement efforts as directed by Sr. Director, and flag areas ripe for process improvement. - Create documentation. - Entering and maintaining contract data in Biblio as needed. What You'll Bring - Approximately 5-8 years’ book publishing contracts experience (in-house or at a literary agency), ability to manage high volume of work with varying complexity - Experience assessing and improving processes This salary range for this role is $71,000 - $80,000. This position is classified as remote but is tied to our New York, NY office located at 120 Broadway. Employment is subject to New York State tax withholding under applicable regulations. 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. Macmillan is proud to be an equal opportunity employer consistently striving to foster a culture where everyone belongs. We welcome applicants of all backgrounds and identities. Qualified applicants are evaluated without regard to race, color, religion, age, ethnicity, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability status, physical ability, neurodiversity, genetic information, protected veteran status, family and economic status and background or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. We prohibit discrimination of any kind and will provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities in accordance with applicable law.

• Architect, lead and manage client engagements • Build client relationships and manage interactions throughout the engagement lifecycle • Independently tailor existing/proven analytical frameworks and methodologies for client-specific needs • Drive delivery teams comprised of 5-8 Consultants and Senior Consultants across multiple and inter-dependent workstreams • Create highly-polished executive-ready decks to build buy-in and convey emerging data-driven insights • Proactively coach and mentor junior staff on developing core consulting skills • Contribute to business development, including proposal responses, narrative development, and technical solutions development

• Identify, evaluate and respond to GCP quality risks related to vendor and site engagement • Lead quality discussions with key vendors and sites and present quality point of view at relevant oversight meetings • Provide quality oversight reports to appropriate sponsor's management / functions • Communicate key quality information (e.g., inspection / audit learnings) across vendors and site entities and serve as quality expert for third parties • Validate, monitor and close out GCP-quality-related action plans • Evaluates quality performance at an enterprise level to inform continuous improvement of quality risk management • Informs site organization relationship owner of quality improvement considerations • Support Vendor Leads / Business Owners to ensure compliance with functional level vendor oversight requirements