Life at Talon
Outside thinking, it runs in the Talon Family
Talon holds a people-focussed philosophy. We pride ourselves on the people who represent our business. We hire smart, enthusiastic and driven individuals who are committed to playing their part in the overall and continued success of Talon.
The Talon family embody our service culture, delight our clients and deliver award winning work. Our basic philosophy is that a happy and well motivated team deliver excellence and naturally go the extra mile – and therefore we go above and beyond to ensure Talon is a great place to work.
From on-site massages, to our monthly Feel Good allowance, regular social events, free office breakfasts, generous annual leave and flexible working as standard – there’s something for everyone at Talon.
BELONG AT TALON
Our ‘Charter for Change’ commits the business to be an inclusive organisation with a ‘Top Down’ approach to ensure adoption and accountability at every level. We are members of MEFA and Creative Access. Our Belong COG is made up of Talon employees. It helps to shape our internal working practices, policies and recruitment strategy to ensure Talon is a great place to work for all talent – and to create access to Talon from typically underrepresented groups in media.
SOCIAL AT TALON
At Talon, we work hard and we play together. Our Social COG is responsible for creating and organising a wonderful array of events for everyone at Talon throughout the year including Sports Days, Pub Quizzes, Halloween Parties and Away Days – all of which are free to attend for all Talon staff.
SUSTAINABILITY AT TALON
Talon is committed to reducing our impact on the planet and have ambitions to reach BCorp status. Our Sustainability COG leads the agencies approach and ensures that Talon is doing everything possible to become a more sustainable business by reducing our environmental impact, ensuring ethical practice across the business and promoting initiatives with our clients, agencies, media owners, suppliers and local community.
TALON GIVES BACK
We believe in giving back and supporting our local community. Through staff volunteering and working closely with our charity partners, we actively raise money throughout the year. Our Charity COG drives the charitable work of Talon, arranging events to raise money to support our charity partners, and working with other teams within the business to run events in support of wider charitable causes. So far to date, as a business, we have donated over £2,000,000 to good causes.
TO STAY AT THE CUTTING EDGE, IT HELPS TO BE A SHARP BUNCH_
At Talon, we prioritise learning and development – with all staff members encouraged to complete a minimum of 50 hours of training a year. Our people team provide an array of courses both onsite and offsite for staff to improve their skills – including Advanced Presentation Skills, Building Stress and Resilience, the industry-wide Ad Net Zero certification and compulsory leadership skills training for all managers. The Talon family are supported in their personal and professional development with meeting-free study days and regular appraisals to assess their training needs.
‘Outside thinking'It runs in the family_
Below is a current list of vacancies available at Talon. Select from the links.
Accounts Receivable Specialist
Location
London, uk
Description
Talon has an exciting opportunity for an Accounts Receivable Specialist to support our Finance team from the London office for a three-month contract. The successful candidate must be a team player, ideally with a strong AR/Media background.
Find out moreAP/AR Executive
Location
London, uk
Description
Talon has an exciting opportunity for an Accounts Receivable & Accounts Payable Executive to support our Nashville Finance team from the London office for a three-month contract. The successful candidate must be a team player, ideally with a strong AP & AR background.
Find out moreInternship (12 months)
Location
London, UK (Hybrid) , uk
Description
Within this entry-level role you will rotate around departments, supporting the executives and wider team, to get a firm understanding of the planning and buying process behind Out of Home advertising along with the chance to gain invaluable media experience. You will be able to benefit from bespoke on-the-job learning and training offered by the Company. Salary: £20,000 - £25,000
Find out moreAdministrative Manager
Location
Nashville (Hybrid), us
Description
At Talon, we provide our clients with world class service, technology, and collaboration to create exceptional OOH campaigns that deliver measurable results. 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 230 people located in key cities across the globe. 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.
Find out moreAccounts Payable Executive
Location
London, uk
Description
At Talon, we provide our clients with world class service, technology, and collaboration to create exceptional OOH campaigns that deliver measurable results. 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 230 people located in key cities across the globe. 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. Talon has an exciting opportunity for an Accounts Payable Executive to join our award-winning Finance team. The successful candidate must be a team player, ideally with strong AP/Media background.
Find out moreInternational Client Director
Location
London, uk
Description
Reporting into the Business Director, the Client Director has a wide range of responsibilities including (but not limited to) owning and developing the relationship with a variety of key clients, managing direct reports within the team alongside supporting the Business Director in day-to-day tasks, driving growth from dormant clients, and helping to deliver best in class service. The primary function of this Client Director role is to ensure that our clients benefit from skilled expertise as part of their overall international campaigns. Managing and growing local clients and agencies international requirements will also be part of the role, encouraging centralised multi-market delivery of activity from a local base, supported by the team. Business development will form part of the overall responsibilities. We are looking for a candidate with full service or OOH experience, preferably airports and international, with a passion for what they do and a proactive, positive attitude.
Find out moreInternational Creative Director, Grand Visual
Location
London, uk
Description
As Talon and Grand Visual’s international business expands, it’s time to bring in our next star team member to help us deliver best in class creative OOH and experiential planning across the globe. Starting in Europe, the International Client Director will be responsible for setting up and reviewing commercial partnerships, ensuring we’re working with the best and most innovative suppliers. As the International Creative Director this role will also be responsible for responding to creative and experiential briefs globally alongside our studio and client service teams based in London and New York. Whilst briefs often cover all regions, this role will focus on markets outside of the UK and USA. It’s important to note that responding to a brief is never a solo task but you should be capable of ideating alone and bringing creative ideas to the table on the fly. We believe the best ideas come from collaboration, but you won’t always have a team around you. The role will also involve a lot of PowerPoint. Our ideas are sold through awesome, visual, and dynamic decks that we present to clients. Once you’ve sold the creative dream and a project approves, our production team will take over the heavy lifting alongside you to ensure we deliver the best possible campaign. This role reports directly into the Grand Visual leadership team with a dotted line reporting into the Business Director at Talon International.
Find out moreClient Coordinator
Location
Nashville, us
Description
This role reports to the SVP, Channel Engagement and is responsible for the development and negotiations of best-in-class out of home plans for our clients here at Talon. As an Associate Director of Channel Engagement, you are responsible for maintaining excellent relationships with our Media Owner partners, working closely with the internal channel team to help grow and develop their talents, and excel in the OOH marketplace as the SME (Subject Matter Expert).
Find out moreClient Manager
Location
London, uk
Description
Being the gatekeeper and servicing clients through implementational planning, being client-facing and working with relevant teams to deliver the best possible outcome for their clients. Managing workloads, understanding and communicating Talon initiatives, having good industry knowledge, working across relevant client accounts and supporting the team are all key aspects of this role – alongside the management and development of the Account Executive within the team.
Find out moreAR Specialist
Location
Nashville (Hybrid), us
Description
Talon has an exciting opportunity for an Accounts Receivable Specialist to join our Nashville Finance team. The successful candidate must be a team player, ideally with strong AR/Media background. The ideal candidate is professional, capable of managing and prioritizing tasks in a fast-paced environment, and extremely self-motivated. This is an excellent opportunity to join our growing team!
Find out moreAP Specialist
Location
Nashville (Hybrid), us
Description
At Talon, we provide our clients with world class service, technology, and collaboration to create exceptional OOH campaigns that deliver measurable results. 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 230 people located in key cities across the globe. 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. 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 THE TEAM (FINANCE) Talon has an exciting opportunity for an Accounts Payable Specialist to join our Nashville Finance team. The successful candidate must be a team player, ideally with strong AP/Media background.
Find out moreMedia Buying Executive
Location
London, uk
Description
The Investment team are primarily responsible for the trading and delivery of our agencies and clients’ campaigns and also ensuring that we are hitting any measurement and commercial targets. As an executive within the team, you will play an essential role in enabling us to fulfil this remit. Primarily, it will be in support function whilst learning the skills required to progress. Then we will look to get you trading within one of our agency teams or assisting in our accountability and performance team in order to ensure we hit our targets.
Find out moreAccounts Payable Executive
Location
London (Hybrid), uk
Description
Talon has an exciting opportunity for an Accounts Payable Executive to join our award-winning Finance team. The successful candidate must be a team player, ideally with strong AP/Media background.
Find out moreGroup Business Operations Director
Location
London (Hybrid), uk
Description
Client Director
Location
London (Hybrid), uk
Description
Reporting into the Business Director, the Client Director has a wide range of responsibilities including (but not limited to) owning and developing the relationship with a variety of key clients, managing direct reports within the team alongside supporting the Business Director in day-to-day tasks, driving growth from dormant clients, and helping to deliver best in class service. The role of a Client Director requires a proactive mindset both to help develop new opportunities within the business and to pre-empt any issues which may occur alongside using initiative, experience and expertise to help keep our clients and agencies happy through gold standard client servicing.
Find out moreFinance Manager
Location
Nashville, USA (Hybrid), us
Description
Talon US Finance team is going through an exciting time, the team is growing so there is plenty of opportunity for growth for the right candidate!
Find out moreAccounts Payable Clerk
Location
Nashville, TN, us
Description
Talon has an exciting opportunity for an accounts payable position to join our Finance team. The successful candidate must be a team player with strong communication skills. This team is searching for a self-starter to process full-cycle AP and handle a large number of invoices per week with high attention to detail.
Find out moreInternational Client Manager
Location
London, uk
Description
Being the gatekeeper and servicing clients through implementational planning, being client facing and working with relevant teams to deliver the best possible outcome for their clients. Managing workloads, understanding and communicating Talon International initiatives, having good industry knowledge, working across relevant client accounts and supporting the team are all key aspects of this role – alongside the management and development of the Account Executive within the team.
Find out moreInternational Client Director
Location
London, uk
Description
Reporting into the Business Director, the Client Director has a wide range of responsibilities including (but not limited to) owning and developing the relationship with a variety of key clients, managing direct reports within the team alongside supporting the Business Director in day-to-day tasks, driving growth from dormant clients, and helping to deliver best in class service. The role of a Client Director requires a proactive mindset both to help develop new opportunities within the business and to pre-empt any issues which may occur alongside using initiative, experience and expertise to help keep our clients and agencies happy through gold standard client servicing.
Find out more