Role: Head of Cultural Collaborations

Team: New Business & Marketing

Reporting To: Founding Partner, Managing Partner

Reports: Head of Editorial

Schedule: Full Time - 2 days in office

Location: London

Salary: £65-75k DOE

Bonus: Generous bonus scheme - to be discussed.

ABOUT WARM STREET

Warm Street has been built by a team of music heads who have a love for music and the cultures surrounding it. It’s a mad thing when you get to do what you love everyday, make a difference and support the scenes you care about. We originally formed from businesses built within youth and music culture. Our past experience helped us become consultants, building brand identity and cultural sincerity. We’re best known for our work with the likes of Red Bull Music Academy, Wray & Nephew, Magnum, Ballantine’s, Netflix and adidas. We are a social-first agency driving business growth through music & culture.

THE ROLE

The HoCC will be responsible for building and driving forward the agency’s growth & reputation. They will be responsible for seeking out brave brands that want to engage in music culture, drive new business meetings and use a black book of contacts to start conversations. Using their understanding of brands, and music culture, they will create and lead a marketing approach to inspire brands to work in music, and win new work. The HoCC will manage all outbound & inbound requests and the pipeline to convert to new work. They will be able to lead RFPs and help guide responses to RFPs.

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

A proactive self starter who is at home meeting new people out & about. They will be enthusiastic, passionate about music & culture, have an incredible black book of contacts, and have a great understanding of building, maintaining and converting across a new business pipeline. The CCL should be energetic, enthusiastic and ready to take a scaling business to new heights through their work. They will have a strong understanding of the tools agencies can use to drive growth: from thought leadership programmes to always on marketing or SEO, they will be able to advise on the optimum marketing mix to drive growth, and deliver against it.

 

DAY-TO-DAY RESPONSIBILITIES
Lead and drive all new business efforts - including being the first point of contact for inbound RFP’s

Set up meetings & network with future clients to drive new business leads

Build strategic growth plans (and consider new & innovate ways) to drive our agency marketing and win new work.

Build out new business drives, and work with Editorial Director on development of content, themes and a narrative that supports our work

Manage the marketing team to deliver against the marketing plan and timelines - ensuring a clear project management timeline is created and worked against

Build & maintain our database of contacts, and lead all outreach to potential brands

Manage all suppliers to deliver new leads to the business

Build a robust CRM system & new business pipeline

Work with Founding Partner & Editorial Director on aligning themes & content on a monthly basis to drive engagement and performance of marketing work

Steward clients through their experience at Warm Street - from initial meetings and through the pitch/brief response process and beyond - maintaining contact and relationships across our client roster.

Brief in and manage creative & strategic content to open up conversations with brands

Manage and organize new business meetings and sales process

Consult into teams on music & music culture - ensuring the vision sold in is articulated throughout their experience.

 

REQUIREMENTS

4+ years experience in fast-paced agency environments, leading new business and b2b marketing initiatives with success

Excellent relationship management, leadership, and mentoring skills

Passion to help shape and grow a young purpose-driven company with big D&I ambition

Experience working in digital and social media marketing, and deep knowledge of the marketing sector

Lead generation and management experience

A love of music and culture

A highly established network across the brand world

Flexible approach to problem solving

Strong project management skills

Ambitious, dynamic, autonomous, organised, self-motivated and resilient

Excellent interpersonal skills with exceptional listening skills

Confident in establishing and developing new relationships

Strong negotiator

Culturally aware and sensitive

You are known for your rigor and proactivity, and don’t hesitate to challenge the status-quo to find better way of working

Calm, positive & resilient under pressure

OUR VALUES

We’re not here to coast along with the traditional marketing industry model, we want to change the face of culture, do things no-one else will take a risk on and push our clients to positively impact people’s lives. We want to make a big impact and this includes improving the diversity of our agency family, with representation at every level, and no more ASSUMPTIONS. We are a purpose driven company, and actively involve our team in defining how we can better support the cultures and communities we work with.