Marketing Agency Recruitment
We recruit exceptional talent for marketing agencies, ensuring your clients receive innovative and effective marketing solutions.
A marketing agency is a highly commercial marketing business that employs a team of marketers who work across multiple clients in a range of sectors delivering best in class marketing solutions. Clients are usually brands or companies who outsource their marketing requirements to an agency as they are knowledgeable, professional, and experienced in delivering the best cutting edge marketing solutions. A marketing agency will deliver marketing strategy, assisting clients with go to market solutions for new products, a new brand or messaging around seasonality or campaign led promotions. Marketing agencies may be specialist like digital, social media, or outdoor, but will adopt a range of channels to amplify their client’s messages. They may also be full-service and offer creative services. Or they may be integrated agencies that offer the full media range to build their marketing and advertising campaigns.
Marketing agencies expand and contract, recruiting or letting go staff depending on the volume of work from their clients. Recruitment from marketing agencies are usually the first to pick up coming out of economic slowdowns when clients outsource to agencies rather than increasing their internal full time employee count. Contracts between clients and marketing agencies can be flexible, allowing for campaign and project-based activity or longer-term contracts. Key roles include account managers, client service staff, hands on marketers and business development specialists. Marketing agencies tent to work closely with good recruitment agencies to ensure they can staff up quickly when they win new business, employing contract or permanent staff on demand. The sector is extremely competitive, so the best staff give individual agencies the edge on winning new business.
The Candidate has developed strong, long-term relationships with marketing agencies over the years, really understanding their culture, the sectors they specialise in and their staff’s career opportunities. We’ll be on their preferred supplier lists and have bespoke commercials that allow for effective hiring. We’ll have placed many of their senior managers as candidates who are now our clients recruiting into their teams. In many instances, we’ll work on open and ongoing briefs, presenting new candidates to clients as soon as they are on the market. We’ll use our leading Applicant Tracking Software to understand candidates career journey’s and be available when candidates need advice on existing roles or developing their careers.
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Evie Barker
“Evie Barker contacted me with an amazing role and was fab throughout the whole process - great communication and answered all of my questions!”
Jay Parker, Influencer Manager, Social Chain Contact Evie
Laura Walters
“Laura is a true professional. She strikes the perfect balance of supporting and challenging you at the same time. Having experienced Executive Search headhunters previously, what makes Laura stand out is that she genuinely cares for her candidate.”
Pete Metcalf, CEO, Social Chain Contact Laura
Victoria Fuentes
“Impeccable professionalism, her communication was always on point and the tips to cause an impression was of great value. I would like to thank her for the great service and will highly recommend the company.”
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A marketing agency recruiter sources the account management, client services and business development talent that agencies need to deliver marketing strategy, campaigns and go-to-market work for their clients. Because agency headcount expands and contracts with client workload, marketing agency recruitment needs to move at pace.
Both, and the mix depends on the client relationship - some marketing agency contracts are campaign or project-based, others are longer-term. Marketing agencies typically want a recruiter who can staff up quickly on either basis once new business is won.
Clients frequently outsource to marketing agencies rather than growing their own in-house teams during uncertain periods, which makes agency recruitment one of the first areas to pick up as the wider economy improves. This makes marketing agency recruitment particularly sensitive to broader hiring trends.
A specialist marketing agency recruiter typically sits on the agency's preferred supplier list and works on open, ongoing briefs - presenting strong candidates as soon as they come to market, rather than only reacting when a vacancy is confirmed.
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