Head of Talent (Hiring Immediately)

Head of Talent

Location: London, Highstreet Kensington
Position: Full Time/Permanent 

About dmg::New Media

DMG New Media is building the next generation of social-first publishing, creating platform-native brands across news, sport, lifestyle, entertainment and culture for global audiences. Our network reaches hundreds of millions of people across social platforms each month.

The role of Editorial Assistant will help oversee the day-to-day management of the rota and the overall editorial staffing needs at dmg:New Media.

Job Introduction

As Head of Talent, you will play a fundamental role in an exciting new proposition in the creator economy: a publisher-backed talent network with the editorial credibility, brand relationships and cross-platform infrastructure of DMG Media sitting behind it. This role will shape our creator proposition, manage our growing roster of internal talent and build our external creator network.

Main Responsibilities

Building the division

• Establish DMG New Media’s creator management agency - onboard our existing creators and set up the operational model of a leading creator management business
• Evaluate and help define the creator strategy - assess the existing pool of internal creators to identify immediate opportunities and significant future potential

Talent management & development

• Manage and develop our internal creators - build content strategies with each creator across their portfolio and develop their personal branding strategy
• Lead on signing the right external creators - identify talent who fit our creator proposition and bring them into the network, both for active management and activation in wider commercial campaigns.

Commercial & brand partnerships

• Drive revenue from day one - work with our sales team to capture and create commercial opportunities with creators, defining how we bring this opportunity to market alongside our ecosystem of social products
• Build long-term creator brand partnerships - leverage your existing network to secure commercial deals for our creators, leading on negotiation and relationship building to allow us to access influencer media budgets

Person Specification

• 6-9 years of experience in talent management, creator representation or influencer marketing, with a meaningful portion of that at a senior level
• Experience managing high-profile, high-earning talent, with a strong track record of negotiating significant commercial deals
• An established network across brands, agencies, media companies and creators
• Deep knowledge of the creator economy with a finger on the pulse of where the space is heading and how to position talent ahead of that curve
• Understanding of what a publisher-backed network can offer that a standalone agency can't and the ability to sell that difference
• Exceptional communication skills - with talent, with brands and with internal stakeholders

Our benefits package increases the longer you’ve been with us. Here’s what to expect:

• 25 days’ holiday (increasing by 1 per year up to a total of 30)
• Upon joining you will be automatically enrolled onto the Pension Plan at the minimum level of 5% employee contribution, 3% Company contribution.
• Life cover under the Pension Plan of up to 3x your basic salary.
• DMGT Discounts (for discounts on online shopping, vouchers and reloadable cards)
• Subsidised canteen
• Onsite gym (Northcliffe House only)
• Onsite nurse and GP clinics (Northcliffe House only)
• Our Employee Assistance Programme
• Discounted dining cards

Plus many other benefits….

About dmg::media

dmg media’s brands deliver highly engaging, trusted content to millions of loyal customers around the globe, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Together, Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday, Metro, i, MailOnline, Mail Plus, metro.co.uk and inews.co.uk reach more than 11m people daily in the UK.* Globally, our brands reach 180m unique browsers every month.** In March 2021, the business acquired the world’s leading science title, New Scientist.

dmg media’s newsbrands are expert at getting to the bottom of the stories most relevant to their readers.

*PAMCo 1 2020 ** Omniture April 2021

Our Commitment

We are committed to increasing diversity and maintaining an inclusive workplace culture. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates regardless of their age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race (which includes colour, nationality and ethnic or national origins), religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.

We are Disability Confident Committed. Please let us know if you require any recruitment documentation in other formats or if you require reasonable adjustments to be made during the recruitment process. Please be assured that any such information will be held separately to your recruitment application and will not be considered as part of the selection process.