Associate Brand Consultant (Influencer Management)

NOTE: PLEASE READ THE BELOW CAREFULLY BEFORE APPLYING AS THE REQUIREMENTS ARE SPECIFIC TO THE ROLE.

Role: Associate Brand Consultant (Influencer Management)

Location: Egypt, Cairo

Experience level: 1-2 years (experience in marketing, sales, management, media or finance is a plus)

Website: www.sandcircus.com

About Us:

Sand Circus is Saudi's Largest Creative Growth & Talent Agency. World-class brands like Amazon, Netflix, and Nescaf trust Sand Circus to grow their brand in Saudi Arabia and the GCC, creatively reaching their audience to drive deep awareness and increase market share. Learn more at: www.sandcircus.com.

Role's mission:

Your role is to drive the growth and success of talents by combining business development, PR management, and brand strategy. This includes securing and closing deals with brands, agencies, and production studios, facilitating high-impact media appearances, and shaping talent brands to maximize visibility and market relevance. The role requires strategic thinking, relationship-building, and executional excellence to deliver measurable outcomes, including closed deals, secured PR opportunities, and implemented brand strategies, ultimately positioning talents for long-term success in the entertainment industry, including but not limited to:

1. Business Development Securing and closing deals for talents with brands, agencies, and production studios.
2. PR Management Facilitating and securing effective media exposure (TV, magazines, podcasts, etc.) for talents.
3. Brand Development Strategically shaping and implementing talent brands to increase visibility, relevance, and marketability.

Essentially, the role acts as a bridge between talents and external stakeholders (brands, media, agencies) while also crafting and executing the talent's personal brand strategy.

Competencies Required for This Role:

• Comfortable dealing with numbers: building quotes for business deals and doing quick mental math.
• Writes high-quality, professional business e-mails in effective and suitable tones to build relationships.
• Effectively negotiates and closes business deals over email, text, the phone and in person
• Has a resilient mentality: thinks deep to come up with creative solutions for complex problems & situations.
• Resourceful: Knows how to find the answer to a burning question when he or she doesn't immediately know the answer.
• Develops effective & efficient workflow processes.
• Produces coherent, well-structured, and well-formatted Excel (Google Sheets) models quickly & effectively, utilizing formulas and keyboard shortcuts as a norm.
• Produces coherent, well-structured and well-designed PowerPoint (Google Slides) presentations quickly & effectively (utilizing keyboard shortcuts as a norm is a plus).
• Is ZD (Zero Defect) with emails, documents (text & visuals) & calculations
• Emotionally intelligent to pick up on talents, clients and team's nuanced sentiments and act accordingly.

Note: As you develop in your role, these competencies are continually built upon and elevated as needed.

Competencies Required for All Roles (Organization-wide)

• Strong, well-structured, and emotionally intelligent communication skills, both written and oral. Fluency in Arabic (Saudi dialect) and English are required.
• Honest: Respectfully tell the truth at all times.
• Experienced in Google Suite.
• Integrous: Holds strong moral principles.
• Proactive: Anticipates the immediate next step effectively and acts on it; able to predominantly work autonomously.
• Efficiently effective: Delivers top-tier results quickly.
• Obsessively detail-oriented: Cares about details a lot. We care about the smallest details a lot, because it's part of what separates us.
• Extremely organized: Organizes his or her thoughts clearly; organizes digital files, folders, and file naming properly.
• Growth-oriented: Has a growth mindset i.e. eager to learn and try new methods, tools and strategies.
• Welcomes constructive feedback and acts on it quickly and effectively.
• Is ZD (Zero Defect) with emails, documents (text & visuals) & calculations.
• Enthusiastic: Interested in talent management, entertainment, music, media or film.
• Positive, solution-oriented attitude: Believes there's a solution to any problem, and proceeds to find the solution.
• Meritocratic: Believes that the best idea wins, regardless of who proposed it.
• Demonstrates ability to maintain confidential and proprietary information.
• Process-driven: Creates effective & efficient workflow processes for all routine or repeatable tasks.
• Emotionally intelligent: Ability to effectively communicate, influence and resolve conflict in a positive manner.
• Strong logic ability: Ability to observe situations, reactions, feedback and take rational conclusions based on logical analysis.

Perks:

• Hybrid work environment.
• Competitive salary and performance-based bonuses.
• Opportunities for professional development and career growth.
• A dynamic and results-driven work environment.

Compensation: To be discussed based on level of experience.