DEPT® - Head of Influencer EMEA
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Requirements
• Experience: Have at least 10 years of experience in Influencer Marketing and Creator Strategy, with a proven track record of leading large agency teams and managing global client portfolios. • Strategic Visionary: You have a deep understanding of the creator economy and how to translate brand objectives into creator-led platforms and ideas that earn attention. • Strategic Visionary: • Operational Mindset: Highly autonomous and proactive, with the ability to own complex regional projects and drive operational improvements that improve margins and delivery. • Operational Mindset: • AI & Tech Curiosity: You don't just follow trends; you understand how to apply AI and automation to enhance the influencer workflow and provide deeper insights to clients. • AI & Tech Curiosity: • Leadership: Genuinely gain energy from guiding others and leading leaders. You are a natural mentor who prioritizes team engagement and professional growth. • Leadership: • Communication: A confident, dynamic communicator able to work across functions and regions to bring a unified influencer vision to life. • Communication: • Commercial: has built and grown profitable teams in other businesses, including heavy involvement in pitches. • Commercial: • Integrated Knowledge: Have broader digital marketing knowledge (Paid Social, Organic social, content and Data) to ensure influencer strategy is perfectly aligned with the wider media mix. • Integrated Knowledge: • WE OFFERPlease note that benefits may vary by location. Feel free to reach out to your recruiter for more details.
Responsibilities
• Strategic & Operational Leadership: Take the strategic lead on the performance, profitability, and long-term growth of the Influencer discipline across EMEA. Establish the right organizational setup to ensure quality and standardization across all markets. • Strategic & Operational Leadership: • Innovation & AI Integration: Accelerate the transition from manual outreach to AI-augmented influencer management. Proactively integrate AI tools for talent vetting, trend forecasting, and automated campaign analysis to redefine efficiency. • Innovation & AI Integration: • Craft Excellence: Define and evolve the DEPT® influencer proposition, setting the standard for creator strategy, platform usage, and cultural relevance. Ensure influencer is embedded "upstream" in client roadmaps rather than as a tactical bolt-on. • Craft Excellence: • Client Impact & Growth: Oversee our Top 20 Media and Influencer accounts, driving innovation and excellence in delivery to ensure high levels of satisfaction, account retention, and organic growth. • Client Impact & Growth: • People Development: Coach and mentor Influencer Leads across EMEA. Identify skills gaps and foster a culture of People Happiness, giving team members the confidence to deliver high-impact, business-driven projects. • People Development: • Cross-Functional Collaboration: Enable x-craft collaboration, bringing Influencer activities closer to adjacent crafts such as Paid Social, Content, Data, and AI to ensure an integrated Growth Invention approach for our clients. • Cross-Functional Collaboration: • Tech & Tooling: Drive the adoption of the right creator tech and internal tooling, ensuring a data-led approach to talent selection and ROI measurement across all accounts. • Tech & Tooling: • Knowledge Sharing: Champion the influencer craft internally and externally. Encourage knowledge sharing between EMEA markets and ensure we are first to move in adopting new platform features and creator formats. • Knowledge Sharing:
Benefits
• Hybrid working policy • Stay happy and healthy with a contribution to your health through the OpenUp platform, and a multisport programme; • A reputation for doing good. DEPT® has been a Certified B Corp® since 2021. • Awesome clients. Whether big, small, local or global — at DEPT® you’ll get the opportunity to work with all of them. And we celebrate all of our successes together! • The opportunity for possibility. We want to enable you to do what you do best and help you develop your skills further with training, development and certifications. • Global annual DEPT® Cares Month in which employees come together and donate their skills to support local charities. • We are a Growth Invention company built to help the world’s most ambitious brands grow faster. Operating at the intersection of technology and marketing, we create what is next by pioneering ideas, acting fast, and moving further because standing still just is not in our DNA. • We are drawn to people who stay curious, move with intent, and never stop inventing. Our culture runs on three values: better together, relentlessly curious, and get sh*t done. It is how we work, how we grow, and how we make things that matter. • At DEPT®, you will find the freedom to explore, the space to collaborate, and the trust to make a real impact for our clients, for each other, and for the world we are helping to build. • DIVERSITY, EQUITY & INCLUSION • At DEPT®, we take pride in creating an inclusive workplace where everyone has an equal opportunity to thrive. We actively seek to recruit, develop, nurture, and retain talented individuals from diverse backgrounds, with varying skills and perspectives. • Not sure you meet all qualifications? Apply, and let us decide! Research shows that women and members of underrepresented groups tend not to apply for jobs when they think they may not meet every requirement, when in fact they do. We believe in giving everyone a fair chance to shine. • We also encourage you to reach out to us and discuss any reasonable adjustments we can make to support you throughout the recruitment process and your time with us. • Want to know more about our dedication to diversity, equity, and inclusion? Check out our efforts here.
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