Commercial Advisor

Deadline: 16th November, 5pm ⏰

We're looking for someone who's built and scaled a talent agency before, has extensive experience in the talent management industry, and is interested in becoming a long-term strategic advisor to tbh talent.

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Opportunity:

We already work with fractional finance, legal and HR teams, and we're looking to bring someone into the business in a similar capacity, but with a focus on commercial strategy. This is a senior advisory opportunity for someone with proven experience in building, running or scaling talent management agencies, who understands the commercial complexities of the creator economy and can help guide our team as we continue to grow. You'll work closely with the senior team, getting under the hood of the business, understanding our commercial opportunities and challenges, and becoming a trusted advisor we can turn to as we scale. Ideally, this will be a long-term relationship with someone who enjoys helping ambitious businesses grow.

Location: Remote, with occasional in-person meetings in London where beneficial.

Contract: Freelance / Fractional Consultancy (ongoing retainer)

Compensation: Competitive consultancy retainer, dependent on experience and agreed scope of support.

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Time Commitment:

We're anticipating the equivalent of approximately 2–3 days per month, but not as fixed working days.

We'd need someone who's plugged into the business throughout the working week, accessible via Slack and able to respond promptly when commercial advice or strategic input is needed.

Some days this might involve a quick 10-minute conversation about a deal or negotiation. Other days, a longer strategy session, commercial review or 1:1 with a member of the senior team.

The priority is consistent access to senior expertise and timely advice, rather than a fixed number of working hours each week.

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Key Responsibilities:

🪩 Commercial Strategy: Provide overarching commercial direction and strategic guidance to support the agency's growth, profitability and long-term positioning.

🪩 Commercial Advisory: Advise on significant commercial opportunities, deal structures, negotiations, partnerships and complex commercial decisions.

🪩 Senior Team Support: Act as a trusted sounding board for the founder and senior team, helping them navigate challenges, assess opportunities and make confident commercial decisions.

🪩 Mentorship & Development: Provide 1:1 support and guidance to team members, sharing your experience and helping develop their commercial thinking and decision-making.

🪩 Business Growth: Identify opportunities to improve commercial performance, strengthen existing revenue streams and support the agency's wider growth strategy.

🪩 Ongoing Guidance: Be available for responsive, ad hoc advice via Slack, alongside more structured strategic conversations and meetings when needed.

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Experience & Requirements:

• Significant senior-level experience within talent management, ideally having built, led or scaled a talent management agency.
• A proven track record of driving commercial growth and navigating the challenges of scaling an agency.
• Strong understanding of the creator economy, influencer marketing, brand partnerships and talent representation.
• Extensive experience with high-value commercial negotiations, deal structures and commercial strategy.
• Experience managing, mentoring or developing commercial and talent management teams.
• Ability to balance big-picture strategic thinking with practical, actionable advice.
• Confidence advising founders and senior leadership teams, including constructively challenging decisions when needed.
• Availability to provide responsive support throughout the working week, rather than only on pre-agreed consultancy days.

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Who We're Looking For:

🪩Someone who's already been there and done it.

🪩You might be a former agency founder, managing director, commercial director or senior talent management leader who's stepped away from a full-time operational role and is now looking to support growing businesses in a more flexible capacity.

🪩We're particularly interested in someone who understands the realities of running a talent agency, has experienced the challenges that come with growth, and can bring insight from their own experience.

🪩We don't want someone who comes in with a big presentation and disappears a month later.

🪩We'd love someone who takes the time to understand our business, builds relationships with the team and becomes a trusted, long-term part of our journey.

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About tbh talent:

We're a growing talent management agency with a small but mighty team that values autonomy, curiosity, commercial thinking and getting sh*t done - with kindness.

We're looking for someone who shares those values, enjoys collaborating with ambitious people and wants to have a meaningful impact on the next stage of our growth.

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Interested?

If this sounds like you, we'd love to hear from you by 16th November, 5pm! 💫

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