Description

The Team Leader is a crucial part of the leadership team, working alongside a Lead Creator and Strategist operating across Poland, Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The successful candidate will have extensive experience in performance digital/social and content and instinctively think digital before all other channels. As a leadership team you will be responsible for a 15+ person content studio of performance digital/social and content specialists and take the lead in guiding the client through what will be a transformative change in how they work with their agency partners to produce digital content for their markets.

Key requirements:

Strategic nous

Smart, business-focused, brand thinker that owns and develops insightful strategies

• Advise and guide senior clients – acting as a sounding board on business challenges
• Partner with the Lead Creator and Senior Strategists to develop and evolve the strategy and creative

Creative passion:

• Drive strategically sound digital creative solutions
• Help drive ‘idea led’ performance and digital creative solutions that reflect modern marketing

• Be a sound judge of creative work and have a desire to raise the bar on all briefs
• Provide leadership in the production process to ensure best in class delivery across all digital touchpoints

Client relationships:

·       Develop a thorough understanding of local business and the major factors and trends shaping their sector

• Build an excellent rapport with all clients based upon trust/mutual understanding
• Be the client’s first port of call for all issues and opportunities.
• Foresee any client issues/questions or internal resourcing issues before they arise
• Drive organic growth

Operational skills:

• Strong financial skills with focus on driving strong income and margin performance
• Ability to lead and liaise with other departments to set the Agency up for success on all projects

Driving from the front:

• Manage Client Services team to deliver projects on time, on budget and to the highest standard
• Grow and nurture direct reports providing coaching, guidance and inspiration

Skills and Experience required:

• Integrated marketing experience with a particular focus on performance, digital, social, content and CRM
• Experience of social and digital comms essential
• Must be forward thinking and embrace creative innovation in the digital space

• Ability and proven track record of leading and building high performing teams
• Must be persuasive and very articulate when it comes to directing or presenting, inspiring confidence and trust in colleagues and clients alike
• Experience of another highly regulated sector such as Pharma or Alcohol would be helpful but not mandatory
• Great communication skills, both verbal and written
• Proven confidence to negotiate with and influence peers and senior clients
• Hold the position of trusted partner and advocate to clients, providing advice and guidance
• Big picture thinking with strong attention to detail

 Personal attributes:

• Collaborative team player, open minded, transparent and non-political
• Relentlessly curious about people, technology, brands, design and business
• Self-starting, proactive and prepared to put in the hard yards to deliver excellent creative output
• Able to balance a strong point of view with an ability to listen, learn and adapt
• Energised by doing the right thing for our clients; solution and results focused
• Positive, enthusiastic, unflappable
• Strong motivation and drive to succeed