Managing director

Managing Director, Commercial & Growth

Influencer Marketing / Creator Economy

Boutique Influencer Agency

Hybrid Working

A specialist boutique creator marketing agency is seeking a commercially driven leader to take ownership of day-to-day operations, commercial growth and team leadership. This is an opportunity to step into a senior leadership role, driving profitability, building a scalable sales engine and reducing reliance on key accounts while working closely with the Founder on long term business growth.

The agency has a track record of success with some pretty impressive case studies aligning brands with top tier international talent and influencers in some impressive and highly effective case studies.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the agency's day to day operations and commercial performance
• Develop and execute growth strategy, new business acquisition and pipeline management
• Drive pricing, scoping and margin improvement across all client engagements
• Build a repeatable sales engine including prospecting, partnerships, outreach and CRM discipline
• Strengthen and expand existing client relationships while identifying new profitable growth opportunities
• Develop new Influencer Marketing partnership proposals with new clients and brands as well as growing existing partnerships
• Lead, mentor and develop a high performing multi-discipline team, creating accountability and clear ownership
• Oversee forecasting, resource planning, reporting and operational delivery standards
• Manage senior client relationships and act as escalation point where required
• Support hiring decisions and future organisational growth planning

Requirements:

• Proven success winning and growing client relationships within agency environments
• Deep understanding of influencer marketing and the creator economy, trends, measurement, best practices and effective ways for creating partnerships with brands
• Strong commercial acumen across pricing, margin management and business profitability
• Experience leading teams and managing operational performance
• Track record building sales pipelines and delivering sustainable revenue
• growth
• Understanding of creator, influencer, social media or talent partnership eco
• systems
• Ability to operate effectively within entrepreneurial and founder led businesses
• Strong stakeholder management and relationship building skills at senior level
• Comfortable balancing strategic thinking with hands on execution