Senior Influencer & Partnerships Executive

Description

As our Senior Influencer & Partnerships Executive, you will join our ever-growing marketing department and be the point of contact for all talent-related bookings/enquiries for the rest of the team.

Being our Senior Influencer & Partnerships Executive, has a range of differing responsibilities including managing the influencer booking process from enquiring about availability to being their point of contact on set during shoot/event days. You will also be responsible for sourcing new/upcoming talent for the Footasylum channels and managing the relationships between our existing retainer talent and their management team. Relationship management will play a key part in your role as it is essential to the success of our talent performance.

• Deliver the influencer strategy in terms of choosing which talent to represent the Footasylum brand both short and long term and assisting with the creative direction of the various channels, primarily YouTube.

• Be the main point of contact for all influencers/influencer management teams for all things Footasylum-related, ensuring all deliverables and obligations are met and talent represent the brand to the required expectations.

• Build on our existing and source new relationships with brands that could sponsor/partner with us for various campaigns across socials with a view to bring in paid sponsorship deals.

• Be our chosen production teams point of contact for planning the yearly content calendar, assisting with creative direction, shoot concepts and talent options.

• Have an excellent knowledge of current trends across social channels in order to assist the Social Media team with maximising content that is captured on shoot days.

• Have finger on the pulse in terms of upcoming talent that fit the Footasylum brand and culture, in order to be able to call new talent up to the channel and have an eye on potential long-term retainer talent.

• Support the management of deals both on talent side and brand partnership side to get the best deal for Footasylum
  

The Team

The entertainment marketing team functions as a part of the larger Marketing department and we work extremely closely with Creative, Ecommerce and the Studio team to bring creators and influencers to the table.

Reporting into the Social Media Manager you will have weekly meetings to discuss ongoing workload and goal setting. You will also have the opportunity for quarterly meetings to discuss longer term strategy and goal setting.

Our goal is to create an environment in which you can learn new skills, gain experience in existing ones and improve your knowledge of the consumer continually. You will be supported in your journey and will be pushed to take on new challenges and expand your knowledge.

About You

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

• Excellent negotiation skills.

• Ability to multitask at a high standard.

• Excellent stakeholder management skills.

• Good grasp of spelling and grammar.

• High knowledge of UK culture (music, gaming, internet, etc).

• High knowledge of fashion culture and Footasylum consumer.

• Solid understanding of Excel and Outlook.

Why Footasylum? 

We are one of the leading omni-channel retailers across the UK, but more than that we are a brilliant place to work. We value you and your development. We have loads of examples of people moving upwards, across to other departments and given training to excel their personal and professional skills.

Our aim to create a fun environment, where your success is paramount to ours and your are given the right tools, support and platform to achieve your goals.

Diversity

We recognise and value the importance of diversity to help make sure we have lots of different perspectives when we are providing service to our colleagues and customers. We know that this will help us build a great service, which our customers will love. This is great news for our business. Diversity for us is also, importantly, about building happy teams full of people that want to learn and want to be inspired by each other and our different experiences.

Recruitment Process

We review applications on an individual basis, and if we feel you would be a good fit we’ll invite you for a call or Teams video for an informal chat about the role, and to see if we’re a good fit for you.

We value open and honest conversations and collaboration, giving you a chance to learn about what we are doing in an informal and friendly environment. We want to know about you and why you feel that this is the opportunity for you.

Please note, this is not a remote role and our expectation is that you will be able to attend Head Office in a hybrid way, in Greater Manchester.