Influencer Director

Sphere Digital Recruitment; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading integrated creative agency is looking for an Influencer Director to drive innovative influencer marketing campaigns. The successful candidate will have over 8 years of experience in this field and a proven track record in leading campaigns and managing client relationships. This hybrid role offers the opportunity to shape the influencer marketing strategy and lead a talented team within a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience leading large-scale influencer marketing campaigns.
• Strong understanding of paid social and creative strategies.

Responsibilities

• Take full ownership of influencer campaign delivery.
• Lead strategy and optimization to maximize campaign impact.
• Build and nurture strong senior client relationships.

Skills

Influencer marketing expertise

Strategic leadership

Client relationship management

Data-driven decision making

Team development

Job description

Influencer Director

Location: London - Hybrid
Seniority: Senior Leadership Role

An incredible opportunity to take ownership of high-performing influencer campaigns, drive client growth, and help shape the future of influencer marketing within a leading integrated creative agency.

We're looking for a confident, strategic and commercially minded influencer marketing leader to join our growing team. You'll use your expertise and leadership to deliver exceptional campaigns, strengthen client relationships, and drive business growth across a wide portfolio of brands.

What You'll Do

• Take full ownership of influencer campaign delivery - ensuring excellence, innovation, and measurable results.

• Lead on client strategy, roadmap development, and campaign optimisation to maximise impact and ROI.

• Build and nurture strong senior client relationships, acting as the main point of escalation and strategic counsel.

• Partner with Creative, Paid Social, and Strategy teams to deliver integrated, high-performance campaigns.

• Identify opportunities for client growth, upsell, and new business within existing accounts and multi-brand portfolios.

• Oversee the development and implementation of efficient processes, workflows, and best practices.

• Manage resource planning across teams, ensuring projects are well staffed, on brief, and on budget.

• Collaborate with leadership and operations to ensure commercial targets are met and scopes of work are achievable and profitable.

• Maintain accurate forecasting and financial tracking across campaigns and pipelines.

• Lead, coach and develop a team of talented influencer and client service professionals, fostering an inspiring, high-performing environment.

• Drive operational excellence - ensuring time, budget and quality standards are consistently achieved.

Who You Are

• A proven influencer marketing expert with 8+ years of experience leading large-scale campaigns and client relationships.

• Skilled across disciplines - with a solid understanding of paid social, creative strategy, and PR integration.

• A confident team leader with experience mentoring, motivating and developing others.

• Commercially astute, data-driven, and adept at translating insights into strategy.

• An exceptional communicator - dynamic, engaging, and client-focused.

• Highly organised, detail-oriented, and process-driven, with strong forecasting and financial management skills.

• Passionate about continuous learning and helping your team grow in capability and confidence.

• A natural problem solver who thrives on creating smart, creative solutions for clients.

Why This Role?
This is a senior opportunity to shape the influencer marketing offering within a forward-thinking, multi-disciplinary agency environment. You'll have the autonomy to innovate, lead a talented team, and make a real impact on the direction of the influencer discipline - both for clients and the business.

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