Business Director (Maternity Cover)
Role Description
The Business Director is responsible for leading a team of direct reports to deliver best in class OOH planning for our clients and agencies. They will foster strong relationships with senior agency and client contacts to deliver billings growth targets, innovative work, and commercial objectives. The Business Director will lead, motivate, and nurture a high performing team and the successful candidate must have proven leadership and team management credentials, excellent OOH knowledge and evidence of innovative thinking that has yielded business value for clients.
ABOUT US_
At Talon, our purpose is to be the independent agency of choice providing a pioneering global platform for brands to connect with audiences in the outside world. We want to reimagine the industry to deliver greater value for our clients whilst inspiring people and caring for our planet. We’re passionate about OOH and are on a mission to drive the growth of this sector within the media industry – changing perceptions of it as a legacy medium to one that is highly effective, creative, sustainable, and measurable for our clients.
In our first 10 years, our desire to offer intelligent, creative, technology-led OOH solutions and a full-service OOH offering saw us grow into a team of over 300 people located in key cities across the globe. In that time, we have been awarded for our approach to our people, our clients and our industry and want to continue and expand upon these successes.
RESPONSIBILITIES AND RELATIONSHIPS_
- Have ultimate responsibility for the servicing of a portfolio of clients across multiple planning
teams. - Have a thorough understanding of the strategy & objectives of your main accounts.
- Have ultimate responsibility for ensuring your business area is delivering the highest level of
service to its clients and agencies. - Lead and motivate your team, coaching and empowering planners where required.
- Oversee the general output from your team to ensure it is consistently of a high standard.
- Create & implement key client programs for the year ahead.
- Grow dormant clients through tailored proactive proposals.
- Presenting Talon initiatives at all agency / client sessions.
- Hold the necessary discussions with agencies at a senior level to highlight commercial advantages to their business.
WORKING HABITS AND CORE SKILLS_
- Negotiating
- Budget management
- Recruitment and selection skills
- Project management skills
- People management
- Organisational planning
- Strategic capability
- Commercially aware
- Independent decision maker
- Able to work as part of a team
- Organised
WHY US_
Talon ensures everyone feels welcome, has all of the tools readily available to be able to succeed. Talon takes seriously their responsibility as an employer, not only to employees but also to their customers and anyone they work with, including the planet. There is a constant striving from all levels to improve and ensure the way we work is better than yesterday.
OUR VALUES AND HOW WE WORK TOGETHER_
WE ARE BOLD_
As industry provocateurs and pioneers, we respectfully challenge the status quo, take pride in our people, big ideas and partnerships.
- We embrace change
- We challenge respectfully
- We lead the way
WE ARE HUMAN_
We are a diverse collective of changemakers who value respect, fairness, and integrity and expect the same in return.
- We value collaboration and togetherness
- We are empathetic
- We embrace individuality
WE ARE SMART_
Our trailblazing spirit and learning centric culture ensures our knowledge provides maximum value to each other and our clients.
- We grow and learn
- We are trusted
- We are mission possible
Talon is an equal opportunities employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where all individuals can thrive. We seek to employ and develop a workforce representative of the markets that we serve and brands that we represent.