Talent Manager
Job Description
<p><em>We’re looking to hire a disruptor! </em></p><p><br></p><p><em><span class=”ql-cursor”></span>If you’re the right person for this role, you’ll already be familiar with the challenges around booking top-tier models and artists in the UAE. You’ll agree that the current market is ripe for a fresh, young, and disruptive agency to shake things up and show how it should be done. And if you’re looking for a role where your boss simply gives you tasks and supervises you day-to-day, this job almost certainly isn’t for you…</em></p><p><br></p><p>This is an exciting opportunity to embrace a new role and take a boutique model/artist agency to the next level. As a highly experienced professional in the creative industry, you will use your extensive network of contacts to onboard highly sought-after models and artists. You recognise talent, give praise and encouragement, and show a genuine interest. Making people feel valued is important to you, and you enjoy building harmonious, mutually beneficial relationships.</p><p><br></p><p>You will be an experienced networker and socially confident go-getter, who enjoys building relationships and winning new business. Working with a brand that reflects your own values of professionalism and integrity is important to you, and you will want to work in an environment which enables you to gain recognition for your effort and commitment. </p><p><br></p><p>You’re tenacious and determined, yet level-headed and professional. You are highly motivated and achievement oriented, and you don’t let setbacks get you down. You have a hands-on approach to getting things done and your default style is to look for solutions, not problems.</p><p><br></p><p>Working effectively as a general manager, you will be responsible for day-to-day business activities and decision making. On a broader level you will work in consultation with the business owner to shape and grow your role and drive the business forward to achieve its strategic objectives. Following the anticipated growth, and consolidation of the new role, you will work jointly with the owner to recruit additional support to meet future business requirements.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>What will I do?</strong></p><ul><li>Creatively source highly sought-after models and artists via multiple channels to build a reliable pool of top-tier talent</li><li>Reach out to existing clients and potential leads, promoting the talent and winning business</li><li>Work proactively with clients to understand their needs and quickly match them with the right talent</li><li>Foster a great booking experience for both the talents and clients, and make them feel assured that they’re set up to succeed</li><li>Help talent grow and develop their career, understand their strengths and challenges, and ensure they feel valued</li><li>Own responsibility for all aspects of sourcing, booking, and promotion work</li><li>Build brand awareness and regularly promote talent on social media (and oversee this activity when support is recruited)</li><li>Take responsibility for PR and marketing to keep the business front of mind for models, artists, and creative production services</li><li>Demonstrate strong attention to detail and be highly responsive in a fast-moving and changing environment</li><li>Regular liaison with the business owner to review strategic objectives and shape the growth of the business, setting goals, milestones etc</li><li>Sharing responsibility for recruiting new members and building the team; leading the team</li><li>Always represent the brand with professionalism and integrity</li></ul><p><br></p><p><strong>What’s in it for me?</strong></p><ul><li>Having made progress towards taking the business to the next level, you will play a central role in recruiting and managing further support to assist you</li><li>Exposure to a wide range of business functions, giving you a great opportunity to develop your skills and experience</li><li>Career growth with a trusted brand and existing platform, with a reputation for putting people first and doing things the right way</li><li>Regular meetings with / support from the business owner to collaborate, raise any issues, find solutions, and discuss progress</li><li>In at ground level to grow with the business, with the opportunity to help shape strategic direction and be a part of its continuing success going forwards</li><li>A generous sky’s the limit commission structure offering unlimited earnings potential, underpinned by a competitive base salary rising in increments at 3 and 6 month milestones</li><li>Working flexibly from home </li></ul>
