Talent Manager

Job Description

Our client is a new-era social and digital media company who combine a leading Social Media marketing agency and content studio with a media network of over 650 channels and 158m followers. The company is headquartered in London.Due to growth and expansion our client is now on the look out for a Talent Manager. The role is a completely remote position so the ideal candidate can be based anywhere in the UK, preferably in the North and willing to travel to their London office oncea month.Our client wow audiences by blending hand-picked influencers with bold social strategies and big stories. They create iconic content that grabs audiences by the eyeballs. Theyre curious. They cultivate broadly and work closely with their social media platform partners (the likes of Meta, YouTube, TikTok and Snapchat), and use data to inform creativity for some of the boldest brands in the world.Theyre expert listeners, bringing data-driven insight, strategy, and conceptual development against a range of complex brand challenges. Thats why theyre the client partner of choice across a range of industries from electronics to health and beauty toautomotive, for an impressive roster of clients, including the likes of: Vodafone, Ellesse, WWF and SK-II.Our client is leading the herd. Using the magic three - organic social, paid social, and influencer marketing, theyve created the Brave Method, a new-age integrated approach, that gets their clients the results they need.While others struggle to keep pace, their media network, with monthly views in the billions, keeps us ahead. Because after all, social media never sleeps.Step into a universe like no other!The Role as Talent ManagerThe social and Influencer team are looking for an accomplished Influencer Manager to support our client and their growth ambitions in this space. They dont believe in transactional relationships with talent. They pride themselves on finding the right talentfor the task at hand and building a mutually beneficial partnership between them, the talent, and the client. People first, intuitive Talent Managers are at the heart of this approach.Youll be working with a team of Data Strategists, Social Strategists, Account handlers, and creatives to identify and relationship manage influencers from the negotiation of terms - through to the delivery of standout creative content.Desired skills & experience as Talent ManagerYoull need to know content and social inside and out but that doesnt necessarily mean you need a creative agency background. The ability to draw down on past experience and use it to strategise influencer led solutions to client/brand challenges is key,but theyre open to where that experience comes from. You could be a talent/influencer manager at an existing agency, you might be a celebrity talent manager, you could work in PR agency but whats important is that you understand the potential for influencermarketing and know how to identify and implement the right solution.What is most important is that youre humble enough to be proven wrong and talented enough to mostly be right.Key Responsibilities as Talent ManagerBeyond the day-to-day identification and management of talent, they believe the right person for this role will help define how they work with influencers by:

• Helping to define their approach and unique proposition for influencer marketing
• Establishing/refining their methodology around influencer selection and management
• Instilling processes around content management with the ambition of delivering standout influencer creative
• Looking for further ways to productise their offering
• Being a strong representative of their influencer offering, engaging with the sector community (attend influencer networking events etc)
• Building out a talent management team to deliver effectively against client briefs

What youll getTheir people make them who they are, so to make sure they attract and retain the best and brightest in the industry, they offer an attractive benefits package. Of course, thry offer the usual perks you would expect from a leading agency (stylish office,tick! Pool table, tick! Friday beers, tick! Daily breakfast and fruit, tick!).But not only that. Our client are the UKs first carbon neutral agency (a status they have held since 2018), with a serious commitment to monitoring and reducing the impact their work has on the planet across three core sustainability pillars of GreenhouseGases, Waste & Recycling and Sustainable Consumption.Then theres a whole host of benefits - from discounted gym memberships and free eye tests to an employee pension scheme and enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption package. Heres a snapshot of just some of the benefits they think you might also like:

• Dynamic working: To keep that work-life harmony in check, theyre flexible on where and when you work
• Above-statutory employers pension contribution: It matters, so they make sure its done properly (4% contribution)
• Private medical insurance: To keep you fighting fit and give you and your family peace of mind
• Income protection: They know it feels good to be covered, just in case
• Calm Subscription: Now more than ever, its important to mind your mind!
• 25 days annual leave: This increases to 27 days after three years and then increases every subsequent year up to a max. of 30 days
• Christmas closure: No need to save holiday days for the Christmas closure period.
• Birthdays off: One extra day to celebrate your big day
• Summer hours: Between June and Aug we finish at 15.00 every Friday.
• Online coaching: Unlimited coaching via MoreHappi
• Remote Working: Work abroad for up to one month a year.
• Bonus: Annual bonus paid on delivering above baseline target - 50% of all profit goes to bonus pot and is uncapped.
• Performance & Salary: Reviewed twice a year for everyone.

Keyskills :
ManagementSocial Influence