Client Director (Maternity Cover)

Our UK Grand Visual team are responsible for creating some of the biggest, boldest, and smartest OOH campaigns and brand experiences the world has seen. As a team, they have a reputation for being the most awarded specialist in the OOH industry. That track record has led us to celebrate Cannes Lions in a host of categories and we're very proud to have received many Grand Prix's for our campaigns. We're looking for a dynamic Client Director to help drive our combined experiential, digital production, and creative solutions propositions here in the UK. This role is a 12-month Maternity Cover.

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.

We're looking for a dynamic Client Director to help drive our combined experiential, digital production, and creative solutions propositions here in the UK. This role is a 12-month Maternity Cover.

No day is ever the same at GV towers. You may start your morning with a client status call discussing plans for upcoming campaigns, you might then run a creative brainstorm with the team and then put on your headphones and do some focus work on a creative response to brief. After lunch, you might check in with our production team to ensure your campaigns are running smoothly and then finish the day scoping a hot project with our creative production partners.

• Demonstrable experiential and media sales experience dealing at a national or director level with major brands and agencies. Candidates should be able to support and challenge the current status quo and provide teams with compelling and innovative opportunities.
• Proven experience in interrogating briefs, providing strategic recommendations, writing tight creative briefs that push boundaries, and pulling together innovative pitch proposals.
• You have the ability to build on your existing network and are able to open doors at the appropriate level.
• Excellent sales skills and marketing/media/events/experiential market knowledge.
• You have experience of leading your own projects but will be confident looping in resource and/or the team head for support where it is needed.
• You have excellent attention to detail and aren't afraid to bring your knowledge of the client and wider campaign strategy to the table on internal discussions.
• Exceptional verbal and written communication and presentation skills.
• Experience working in a busy, demanding and pressurised environment.
• You are driven and self-motivated to deliver results.
• You are flexible with a willingness to embrace change and new opportunities.
• You have a solid understanding of the media landscape and truly understand how OOH and Brand Experience complement other channels.
• Excellent proficiency across Microsoft - Excel, PowerPoint, Word.

Grand Visual is the Creative arm of Talon, focusing wholly on delivering best in class creative services, and maximising media value to the Global OOH market. Our clients include PepsiCo, Disney, Nike, Netflix and Amazon to name a few.

Our team of experts have been crafting compelling stories for leading agencies, brands, and audiences all around the world for over 17 years, delivering projects in over 70 markets across the globe.

From murals to experiential, interactive digital experiences and data-driven creative, our team ideates, develops, manages and produces campaigns seen by millions of people around the world.

"We're a great team of people, who enjoy doing what they do, and have fun doing it."

As industry provocateurs and pioneers, we respectfully challenge the status quo, take pride in our people, big ideas and partnerships.

• We challenge respectfully.
• We lead the way.

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.

Our trailblazing spirit and learning-centric culture ensure 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.