Commercial Talent Senior Account Manager (Celebrity & Influencers)

Global

Job Description

Commercial Talent Senior Account Manager (Celebrity & Influencers)

Reporting of the Role

This reports into the Commercial Talent Production Manager & Commercial Talent Director.

Overview of job

Both leading your own projects & supporting senior team members on bigger projects across the full lifecycle of celebrity/talent/influencer campaigns booking talent for both Global partnership campaigns and external talent procurement consultancy projects for brands. Booking talent for various campaigns across video (Global shoots & influencer shot content), audio (voice overs) & events & performances).

We book celebrities from film & TV, comedy, music, sport & digital and deliver talent for hundreds of projects a year across most categories, so this role requires passion & specialism in celebrity marketing as well as the ability to competently manage multiple campaigns at once.

3 best things about the job

• Variety of clients, campaigns and platforms.
• Learning at speed from a collaborative & fun team.
• Working with a broad spectrum of talent across the entertainment space.

Responsibilities of the role

You will be expected to confidently and efficiently run your own projects, end to end. Senior team members will be available for mentorship, but you will use your wealth of experience to lead the charge:

• Brief refinement: Clarifying talent deliverables and creating manager & client facing proposals.
• Strategic shortlisting: intuitively suggest talent based on broad knowledge of the culture, influencer & entertainment space.
• Contracting: lead negotiation of small-medium level talent deals (supported by a senior team member) including negotiation of fees, drafting deal memos and ensuring signed contracts are received in a timely manner.
• Creative development: Join brainstorms and be part of shaping the talent-led output Global creates.
• Organised: Can flawlessly manage multiple projects, work at pace, problem solve, manage your time & prioritise workload.
• Project delivery: Support senior bookers on more elaborate projects as well as your own projects including the following elements:
  • Day to day campaign or project management: Comms & deadlines.
  • Talent liaison: Management & agent comms & approvals, including chaperoning talent & their team at shoots & recordings.
  • Shoot planning: Collaborating on kick off and pre-production meetings.
  • Logistics: Prepping for shoots & audio sessions – arranging cars, glam etc.
  • Influencer-led content: Drafting social briefs, reviewing content plans from talent, ensuring output meets the brief and posts are ASA compliant.
  • Reporting: Collating data from campaigns & feeding into PCAs using insights.
  • Account admin: Status docs, budget management, project filing, IR35 implementation, managing, tracking supplier invoices & keeping assigned databases up to date etc.

Additionally:

• Working in a solution-orientated, collaborative way with the many Global departments involved in projects featuring talent.
• Ongoing connection to the entertainment talent industry, cross-culture (influencer, music, film & TV, gaming, sport etc.), keeping across latest rosters, researching interesting up & coming talent, and actively bringing fresh interesting and relevant talent into our Global ecosystem.
• Nurturing trust and respect with managers and agents, providing a best-in-class experience for both them and their talent.
• Able to adhere to robust systems & processes for all aspects of talent delivery, proactively suggesting ways we can improve & refine as needed.

What you will need

• Influencer/Talent campaigns: Candidates must have prior experience leading scaled influencer/talent campaigns and managing the delivery of paid talent campaigns across one or more of the following fields: influencers, music, film & tv, sport.
• Agency experience & client servicing: experience working at a marketing/PR/talent or sponsorship agency where you’ve client serviced & worked on scoped talent projects for brands is highly desirable (though not compulsory).
• Fluent in social media: A thorough understanding of how talent work best with brands on TikTok and Instagram.
• Presentation skills: Can create & present compelling client and talent facing documents in PPT or Keynote (e.g. campaign proposals & sell-in decks) with a clear narrative and considered positioning to get the desired outcome
• Creative: Brimming with ideas and keen to be part of the evolution of our output.
• Industry knowledge: Across trends in celebrity & entertainment marketing & connections to managers/agents from prior campaigns.
• Soft skills: Positive & professional attitude & highly collaborative.
• Communication: Clear & effective spoken and written communication style.
• Organised: Can flawlessly manage multiple projects, work at pace, problem solve, manage your time & prioritise workload.
• Learning & progression: Able to take constructive feedback and keen to get involved in wider initiatives & make a difference at Global.
• Professional: able to manage confidential and commercially sensitive information with discretion.

Everyone is welcome at Global

Just like our media and entertainment platforms are for everyone, so are our workplaces. We know that we can’t possibly serve our diverse audiences without first nurturing and celebrating it in our people and that’s why we work hard to create an inclusive culture for everyone. We believe that diversity will set us apart, so no matter what you look like, where you come from or what your favourite radio station is, we want to hear from you.

We will always seek to make appropriate adjustments to the recruitment process and workplace to be fully inclusive to people with different needs and working styles. If you require us to make any reasonable adjustments for you or to disclose a condition, please email