Talent Engagement Manager at DarkGold Media

The Talent Manager will have a depth of understanding of micro-influencers to celebrity/macro influencer and the negotiation and sales skills to procure and manage brand partnerships for clients with measurable results.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Serve as the liaison/DarkGold point of contact for external Talent Booking Agencies
• Support external Talent Booking Agencies and Experiential Team via talent coordination and administration
• Support continued growth of talent process and talent teams by making recommendations on how to best deliver on Talent Acquisition needs across Experiential events
• Assist in collecting all talent financial forms, including but not limited to, W9s, new vendor forms, and ACH forms
• Work with finance, oversee the delivery, and logging of all financial payments and forms, needed to satisfy monetary compensation to talent
• Manage the timely collection and execution of all talent promotional assets including photos, bios, videos, titles and other related needed to successfully promote artists
• Coordinate scheduling of talent’s prerecorded or live participation at the Events
• Compile and maintain tracker for talent assets, talent financial payments, prerecord schedule and song clearance that lives inside Experiential Leads shared master tracker
• Make recommendations to DarkGold Experiential Team on artists and celebrities that fit the brand and business objectives
• Field inquiries from talent booking agents, publicists and business managers soliciting artist and celebrity submissions for performances
• Build, compile, and maintain a talent database containing all talent contact details and viable models and stats to help support consistent toolkits and models for booking talent across DarkGold’s experience portfolio
• Participate in brainstorming sessions for program talent suggestions
• Coordinate with Experiential Team and Marketing Team on program (and sponsor-related) talent needs
• Encourage best practices and procedures to ensure appropriate decision-making protocols are followed, and proactively identify areas for improvement that promote efficiency, innovation, and better communication internally
• Help in coordinating approved Talent room block accommodations as approved by DarkGold
• Assist with talent back of house movement in conjunction with DarkGold Video and PR team in support of Talent Agency’s “on-site production management to ensure live performance and/or live to tape recording is operating in a timely manner”
• Support “Manage deliverables (e.g., tech, hospitality, etc.) required for talent as set forth talent in their Event talent agreements”
• Attend meetings with Experiential Team so that the Music ROS can stay up to date with the current information in support of Talent Agency’s “Run of Show ownership”
• Establish and maintain professional relationships with talent
• Using Client Relationship Management (CRM) software to keep track of communication with talent and decision makers for talent opportunities
• The candidate will be tasked with negotiating deliverables and terms for partnerships. Including but not limited to: fee negotiation; reviewing, negotiating and executing contract terms where required; creating the Scope Of Work document for talent; ensuring talent are aware of their obligations; seeing through deliverables and gathering comprehensive insights from the partnerships to share with brands post event

SKILLS & ABILITIES

• The ability to identify, procure and negotiate both short term and long term partnerships for talent across brands, licensing, events, live, publishing, media appearances and other opportunities.
• Works well independently and collaboratively as part of a motivated team.
• Demonstrated ability to think clearly and quickly under pressure in fast-paced environment.
• Ability to solve problems.
• Good interpersonal and communication skills, both in person and via email/ telephone communication.
• Driven by results
• Exceptional proficiency in Microsoft Office

Salary: ₦200,000.00 /month