Associate Talent Manager

Job Description

Overview & Responsibilities:

Paramount's Creative+ is a market-facing team passionate about fueling the sale of influencer marketing and fulfilling revenue-generating campaigns. The Creative+ Talent team's primary focus is to interface directly with the pitch, activation, and creative teams in addition to the digital ad sales team and their clients in the post-sale phase, functioning as externally-facing talent leads and influencer marketing experts, with deep industry knowledge.

The Associate Manager helps the Senior members of the Talent Team carry out all responsibilities tied to the talent booking process from pitch to pay in an effort to deliver campaigns that are industry-leading in creative quality and performance. The ideal candidate is a proven expert in project management and client relations, with extensive proficiency in the influence and social landscape.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
• Innovate the process of finding, casting, and activating influencer talent (from micros to celebrities) for branded Influence campaigns
• Collaborate with pitch, activation, and creative teams in the pitch phase to determine appropriate talent strategy and distribution plan
• Perform outreach, extend offers and negotiate talent deals for brand-sponsored social campaigns
• Support senior members of the Talent team in pitch meetings and campaign kick-off calls
• Assist senior staff in handling day-to-day talent relations and communication throughout campaign execution including budgeting, facilitation of content collection, and logistics (i.e. book travel, glam, transportation)
• Process talent payment invoices using Paramount's PO systems including the handling of sensitive and high-profile personal information
• Facilitate access to talent's channels for media promotion requirements for brand campaigns, working with Talent agents to access Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and Pinterest to ensure whitelisting admin is setup for media teams
• Research celebrities, digital influencers, and rising stars to support the casting of talent for all brand campaigns
• Develop new Talent Cards with detailed biographies to support casting choices using Paramount's Talent Match platform
• Assist in the development of Powerpoint presentations for Sales pitches

Basic Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree
• 3+ years of experience in influencer marketing, talent, media and/or a related field
• Proficient in Excel, Word, Keynote, and PPT

Additional Qualifications:
• Strong project management skills with the ability to lead many moving parts simultaneously and work efficiently across disparate functions
• Embody integrity, maturity, and finesse while effectively managing expectations of high-profile and demanding agents, talent, and publicists
• Heavy social media user with a strong grasp on culture, keen understanding of emerging content trends, and curiosity about the fast-growing influencer marketing industry
• A problem-solver with the ability to thrive in a face-paced environment
• Ability to quickly learn and adapt to internal tracking systems and procedures
• Passion for discovering the most creative and diverse talent across all social media channels!

Paramount is an equal opportunity employer (EOE) including disability/vet.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-g62859-3-16-147-124-42 in your application.