WISE BUDDAH CREATIVE LIMITED: Talent Agent NEEDED URGENTLY

Wise Buddah Talent are looking for an experienced Agent to joins it’s artist management team. It is fundamental that the successful candidate has at least 2 years’ experience as an Agent working in the entertainment industry.

Wise Buddah Talent is proud to manage a first-rate roster combining some of the finest established broadcasters, exciting performers and emerging talent. Our highly thought of management team is dedicated to working hard alongside our talent to forge them successful and lasting careers in the media.

This role requires the skills, knowledge and enthusiasm to play a key role in our Talent Department, working across TV, radio and corporate activity whilst actively promoting artists from the Wise Buddah roster, pro-actively seeking opportunities on their behalf, and constantly looking to evolve your contact base.

You will work with colleagues to manage artist diaries and be across the logistics and details of their working lives, being readily available to provide support and facilitate the flow of communications as needed. 

• Proactively seek opportunities within the TV, radio and corporate industries.
• Work and sell the artists within the direction governed by departmental artist strategies.
• Work with the Senior Talent Manager on clear directives around the sales of artists within your designated clients, agreeing aims, objectives and goals within agreed periods of time.
• Field enquiries on behalf of Artists, using your knowledge and skills to convert opportunities where possible, but crucially, understand where appropriate to discuss key decisions with the Senior Talent Manager.
• Attend industry events and conferences as directed and agreed.
• Support artists at events and jobs where required.
• Proactively seek opportunities to expand contact base.
• Have regular, structured face time with core artists.
• Generally maintain good relations with all artists on the roster.
• Implement sales strategies, both in person and over the phone as well as via email.
• Keep diaries up to date with pencilled and confirmed jobs, and manage logistics for confirmed jobs.
• Point of contact for both artists and clients around job bookings.
• Play a key part in team meetings, reporting findings from both artist and industry meetings.
• Research and develop ideas in collaboration with artists and team members.
• Be aware of Wise Buddah Content commissioning opportunities and collaborations with the roster.
• Input as a key team member to the on-going review and development of our artist strategies.
• Stay across industry news and press.
• Work to stay across industry presenting trends and fashions, actively seek and research emerging Talent and make recommendations to the Team and the Senior Talent Manager.
• Organise appropriate admin and documentation as needed.
• Complete Talent Booker data entry in a timely and organised manner.
• Make sure artist show reels and biographies remain up to date and relevant to the sectors you are selling within.

Please send a covering email and CV to hr@wisebuddah.com by 5pm on Friday 3rd October.