Talent Manager

Talent Manager

Talent Manager

About Us

DDA is a leading global creative marketing and strategic communications agency working in the entertainment and brands spaces. With offices in Los Angeles, New York and London we offer a bespoke service and truly global reach for festivals, networks, platforms, producers, distributors, financiers, government organisations, and brands.

DDA provides creative and insightful strategies, tailored campaign solutions, and a ‘round-the-clock’ service across all the agency’s lines of business, which includes US and UK Film and Series Campaigns, Strategic Consumer and Corporate Communications, Influencer management, Social Media, Personal Publicity Representation, Design, Creative Studio,





International and Festival publicity, Live Event Production and Awards.

About You

You will be a passionate, driven and hard-working talent agent who will help manage the team and work with our fantastic roster. You must have a huge passion for influencers and influencer management, have experience in a similar role and be able to demonstrate this is your dream job!

The Role

This role will manage a diverse list of talent (including tentpole creators) and necessitates the ability to build strong relationships with your talent, acting as a trusted advisor to help them to achieve the best possible outcomes through your own work and the work of the team around you.

You will be involved in developing DDA’s share of business across the Creator division ensuring every step of the way that both the talent and the business are reaching their potential via strategic thinking, collaborative work processes and the highest operational work ethics.

Key Responsibilities

Client Relationships







- Lead on a number of talent accounts (with at least 3 tentpole creators), making sure all operational and day to day aspects of their working lives run smoothly with campaigns run to the highest standards
- Act as main point of contact for the talent across all paid deals, strategy, goals and beyond
- Maintaining and develop relationships with agencies and brands direct, fostering this network across talent and key industry contacts.
- Attend relevant industry events to grow your network for the talent and DDA
- Attend and lead on shoots
- Initial point of contact for trouble-shooting and dealing with larger problems before passing to Director of Creators when necessary
- Leading on communicating around the Creators’ goals, their monthly catch-ups and three monthly strategy check-ins






- Consistently looking for new ways to meet and exceed talent’s needs

Strategy and Commercial Awareness

- Leading on quarterly strategy updates to bring longer-term goals and best practice advice to fruition in partnership with the Strategy Director and Director of department as necessary
- Roll-out regular annual, proactive and reactive strategy including troubleshooting
- On hand for exciting, innovative and on brand content ideas for influencers
- Research relevant industry experts, competitors, target audience and users and understand how to share those learnings both internally and with your talent
- Leading and playing an active creative role in brainstorms on new, creative approaches to influencer campaigns






- Keep abreast of emerging trends, technologies, and influencers and how these can accelerate the growth of DDA and their talent
- Strategically and proactively think around how to generate longer-term business and ancillary income for your Creators
- Utilise experience and industry knowledge to help fire-proof accounts, foresee problems and come armed with solutions to help maintain commercial and credible careers for your talent

Delivery

- Assist with management and successful delivery of creator expectations
- Oversee junior members of the team with strategic outreach
- Teach strategic outreach for your Creators based on organic posting and strong positioning to juniors on the team






- Confidently and expertly leading on all major calls and meetings for the creator and brands
- Lead on shoots/key talent activations
- Acts upon client feedback throughout all delivery
- Providing the best possible work for your line manager at all times
- Oversee strategy around gifting and events and how to maximise those opportunities
- Maintain all talent admin systems

KPIs INCLUDE

- Strategic management of clients on your list in close collaboration managing up and down internally across SD, division Director and other senior experts
- Talent recruitment – identifying and helping to sign key talent who have long term potential and drive revenue
- Talent retention – ensuring current talent are receiving the best service and their careers are developing consistently
- Leveraging all connections across the industry,





sharing updates and strategy around this with senior internal stakeholders
- Negotiating large scale and complex deals

People

- Managing the executives/assistants on your accounts in terms of workload, tasks and the roster
- Be approachable and professional at all times and positively contribute to the team environment and company culture
- Inspire your colleagues to push themselves and lead by example
- Champion the importance of teamwork and motivate others around you

Skills & Knowledge

- Previous experience in an influencer management role or from the world of TV/Media/Entertainment/Brands in a talent facing role
- Previous experience line managing
- Extensive knowledge of social media influencers and content creators






- Being able to adapt and flex your working style
- Highly organised, good under pressure and a strong multi-tasker
- Ability to work to tight timelines, often outside of regular working hours
- Understanding of how online platforms and social media can reach and develop audiences, participants and press engagement
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
- Proactive & intuitive
- Creative mind-set
- Proficient with Google Drive
- Great sales and negotiation skills are a huge plus
- 3+ years industry experience

DDA Values

Our values can act as a roadmap for expected behaviour within the DDA community and are underpinned by a collective belief in what we are, what we do and what we represent.

- Being Bold,





DDA is made up of extraordinary people who do extraordinary work. In order to deliver the best possible results, we consistently challenge each other’s ideas, demanding better of ourselves and each other. We reward those who have the courage of their convictions, want to be heard, and can communicate their ideas with energy and dynamism. Crucially, a DDA employee partners this boldness of spirit with a deep trust of their colleagues and a respect for alternative points of view.
- Creating Community, From our board members to our interns the people who work here share not just a passion for the industry, but a strong team spirit that makes DDA a great place to work. We continue to thrive in this challenging, amazing profession because we enjoy working together and consistently respect and support each other in our collective effort to achieve the best results for our clients, and to create a harmonious, inclusive and enjoyable office environment. We support positive office culture and foster initiatives that strengthen team bonding and interaction.
- Making a Contribution, Beyond the expectation that all employees individually deliver a high quality of work for our clients, we also rely on every person at DDA to make meaningful contributions to the team environment and successes here. A DDA employee will always seek opportunities to help others and to improve everyone’s day-to-day experience and learning. Each person is accountable for their contribution to the collective efforts of the company and the gold standard results we achieve
- Understanding our Roots, DDA has enjoyed 50 years in the business, which makes us the longest established Film & TV focused publicity agency in the world. Some of the industry's most exceptional talent have called DDA home over the years. Today's team are proud torchbearers of DDA's legacy and continue to play a leading role in forging the future of the industry
- Encouraging Growth, In an industry that is forever evolving, DDA has updated, adapted, and championed progress. We continue to diversify and refine our offering; searching for opportunities to expand our client services and outdo ourselves. DDA-ers challenge themselves to exceed expectations and are always seeking opportunities for development with the guidance of the experienced senior team

▶️ Talent Manager
🖊️ DDA
📍 London