Social Impact Executive

Job Description

Who we are

Creative Artists Agency (CAA), is the world's leading full service entertainment, media, and sports agency. We represent many of the most successful professionals working in television, film, music, theatre, video games, sports, and digital content. We also provide a range of strategic and marketing consulting services to corporate clients.

The Department

CAA Brand Consulting is the entertainment & sports marketing agency within CAA. Our mission is to drive cultural brand relevance for our clients by tapping into CAA's connectivity to pop culture. Leveraging our deep relationships and influence with studios, networks, labels, leagues, teams, venues, events, media, and content platforms, we provide a range of strategic and marketing consulting services to corporate clients around their entertainment & sports strategies.

The Role

The CAA Brand Consulting team has a Social Impact service offering that works with outside entities (for-and-non-profit organizations) that wish to establish or improve their social impact, using resources to bring their social mission to life, which includes work to help clients strategize on broader approaches to business and brand purpose. We advise clients in this area through a process of discovering their social purpose, and understanding how and where they want to effect change. CAA then designs a comprehensive, start-to-finish strategy(ies) that can shift principles into action. This position will support the teams' priorities servicing clients ranging from client service, strategy development/execution, and creative team management.

Responsibilities
• Act as a lead strategist on existing and new business
• Conduct research, create ideas, and prepare detailed plans to advise blue chip brands
• Interact directly with clients to manage expectations and meet deadlines
• Research and analyze the strategies, policies, and programs of new and existing clients
• Prepare decks and materials for new business opportunities
• Prepare new business proposals in an expedited window
• Travel to various cities to work with clients supporting new and existing business
• Act as an internal and external representative for CAA's Social Impact policies and projects
• Work across the agency to find new opportunities
• Represent the Social Impact team at internal events and meetings
• Manage and train junior staff members
• Help grow the Social Impact team's network and visibility by attending conferences, CAA events, and functions

Desired Traits
• Best-in-class client servicing and relationship building
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills
• Skilled in secondary research with the ability to gather data and synthesize insights across brand categories and the entertainment industry
• Detail-oriented and extremely organized
• Must be adept at problem solving and thinking quick on his/her feet
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, deadline driven environment
• Ability to maintain a strict level of confidentiality when dealing with high profile clients
• Ability to manage a team of people

Qualifications
• Minimum BA/BS from an accredited University or College required
• Minimum 7 years, with at least 2 years of brand strategy experience
• Background in corporate social responsibility required
• Account Management and/or management consultant experience required
• Must have prior experience writing briefs and be prepared to share writing samples
• Entertainment knowledge and understanding of the pop culture landscape preferred
• Proficient in Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, and Excel
• Ability to travel extensively and attend work events outside normal business hours on an as needed basis

CAA does not accept unsolicited resumes from third-party recruiters unless they were contractually engaged by CAA to provide candidates for a specified opening. Any such employment agency, person or entity that submits an unsolicited resume does so with the acknowledgement and agreement that CAA will have the right to hire that applicant at its discretion without any fee owed to the submitting employment agency, person or entity.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-g39n3q-18-117-152-251-42 in your application.