Brand Consulting - Senior Account Manager, Entertainment Talent

The Role

The CAA Brand Consulting Senior Account Manager, Entertainment Talent will play a key role for one of our largest Brand Consulting clients. The Senior Account Manager will lead talent partnerships across the brand’s sponsorship portfolio and is responsible for linking Talent strategy alongside broader Sports & Entertainment strategy. The candidate will interface day to day with clients and will work cross functionally with the sports talent counterpart, internal account team, internal/external vendors, and agencies. They will work directly with the client and connect the internal account leads across festivals, tours, tentpoles, private event performance programming and related engagements.

Responsibilities:

• Account lead across all entertainment talent and influencer partnerships for the client, providing recommendations, and the negotiation and management of talent deals

• Day to day management of existing talent partnerships including communication directly with talent representation, developing talent activation plans, organization of project plans and asset tracking documents

• Main point of contact for client for assigned projects focused on talent partnerships within entertainment vertical

• Develop and deliver talent strategy based off client briefs

• Develop talent approach, talent recommendations, program recaps, presentations for key meetings internally and externally

• Manage multiple projects and budgets autonomously

• Lead client calls and provide expert opinions

• Lead client presentation for talent programs

• Manage budget development, tracking & reconciling for talent

• Lead development of concepts & facilitate creative approval process for talent

• Oversee & facilitate the creative development process of marketing materials for talent integrated into experiential assets and event-related creative (includes briefing talent and talent reps & obtaining internal & client approvals)

• Work with other team functions (e.g. Creative, Experiential, Social Impact, Insights / trends, etc.) to ensure goals and objectives are met

• Develop relationships across CAA and with external partners to find and promote new opportunities to client

• Develop and deliver compelling written and verbal communications

• Ongoing Talent relationship and partnership management

• Manage internal/support team members

Qualifications:

• 6-8+ years of relevant experience

• Ability to travel and be on site at events, outside normal business hours on an as needed basis

• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills

• Demonstrate highest level of critical thinking with focus on proactiveness and attention to detail

• Expertise in managing projects and budgets

• Excellent presentation skills

• Previous experience with managing and developing junior staff members

• Project management expertise

• Sustain relationships with clients and grow the business

• Understanding of the client’s industry and latest developments

• Strong negotiation skills

• Strong PowerPoint & Excel

• Ability to balance and progress multiple projects and project components at one time, on tight timelines

• BA or BS preferred

Preferred Skills

• Previous experience at an Agency, Music Label or Brand in leading Talent-specific programming  

• Prior knowledge/experience with festivals, musical talent and performance programming preferred

Location

This is a hybrid role, based in our New York City or Los Angeles office.

Compensation

The annual base salary for this position is in the range of $89,000 - $120,000. This position also is eligible for benefits and discretionary bonus. Ultimately, the salary may vary based upon, but not limited to, relevant experience, time in role, business sector, and geographic location, among other criteria. Please talk with a CAA Recruiter to learn more.