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.
THE ROLE_
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 Investment Manager within the team, you will play an essential role in enabling us to fulfil this remit. Primarily, this role will be supporting the Account and Business Directors whilst learning the skills required to progress. As your knowledge and experience grows Investment Managers will start trading within one of our agency teams or assisting in our Accountability and Performance team in order to ensure we hit our targets.
A DAY IN THE LIFE_
As an Investment Manager, your primary focus will be to manage trading and negotiations across your assigned agency business. You will be responsible for the investment side of campaign management from start to finish, including managing client targets and leveraging value where necessary. You will be required to build strong relationships with our Media Owner partners and our agency contacts. Communication is a key part of the role, and we strongly encourage the use of phone calls/teams meetings in order to establish and build on these relationships. This is how we deliver on our client KPIs.
A large proportion of our work revolves around excel so you will need to be very proficient with this. You will need accurate and acute attention to detail and have strong numeracy & analytical skills.
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR_
- Commercial aware, looks for new opportunities and ways generates added value.
- A high-level attention to detail.
- Previous media buying and/or media owner experience
- Strong numeracy & analytical skills
- Negotiation and innovative trading ability
- Accurate and acute attention to detail
- Experience of building strong relationships with clients/media owners
- Microsoft Office Skills
OUR TEAM_
The Investment team plays an integral role within Talon. We are focused on developing individual client strategies in order to meet our client directives. We use data, insight and analysis to ensure that are always on top of these objectives. We work closely with our Accountability & Performance team in this area too, so internal relationships are key. It is our role to be experts in the media owner landscape and to spot opportunities in market in order to create bespoke deals for our agencies. We work across all agency groups and work very closely with their investment teams and external auditing companies.
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.