Growth Director
Taking our growth beyond performance.
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This role is for our newly acquired group company, Saulderson Media
About the Company
Saulderson Media is a premium influencer marketing and talent management agency. We specialise in driving awareness and growth, predominantly for gaming, consumer tech, entertainment and SAAS companies.
Alongside this, we manage a roster of high-performing content creators across all platforms, providing support to turn content creation passions into long-lasting careers.
Over the last 7 years, we've worked with top brands and creators, executing award-winning campaigns for the likes of ASUS, Ubisoft, ACER UK, Sandbox VR, Netflix, Backbone and many more.
This year, we became part of The Journey Further Group, a full-service performance marketing agency, that now gives us greater strength and depth to deliver for our clients.
What you will do
- Manage your pipeline from lead generation to deal closure to meet the team quota, handling tasks such as qualification, presentation creation, pitching, nurturing relationships, negotiating, and finalising sales
- Lead and close complex, high-value (often global) new business opportunities, acting as the senior point of contact and subject matter expert throughout the sales cycle
- Strategically qualify inbound leads, ensuring their needs align with agency solutions
- Act as a trusted advisor with prospects to enable custom pitches and successful negotiations, informed by in-depth knowledge of influencer marketing and our target sectors
- Develop strong working relationships across teams to align on services, value propositions, and pricing to drive revenue growth
- Represent the agency at key industry events globally, and cultivate top-tier relationships to proactively uncover new sales opportunities aligned with our strategic growth objectives
- Drive cross-functional alignment with Marketing, Product, and Delivery teams to develop innovative service packaging, pricing models, and go-to-market strategies that unlock significant new revenue streams
Requirements
- You have a deep understanding of the US/UK influencer marketing landscape and social media ecosystem
- You have experience in a new business sales role, pitching and retaining large brands within gaming, consumer technology, entertainment, SAAS or AI
- Proven track record of consistently exceeding significant revenue targets, ideally through influencer, social or content-first solutions
- Demonstrated ability to influence and lead without direct authority across multiple internal and external stakeholders
- Exceptional strategic thinking and problem-solving skills with a focus on innovative solutions for complex business challenges
- Experience with complex influencer marketing deals worth +£200K in annual agency fee value
- Flexible ways of working to successfully influence a global team
- Charisma, a strong POV, and self-confidence
- Superior writing and communication skills, capable of crafting compelling narratives and presentations for C-suite audiences
- Comfort with HubSpot, LinkedIn Sales Navigator, and Google Slides
Locations
London (preferred), Leeds or Manchester
Package
Salary £62,000 - £70,000 (For London) + Commission. OTE £100,000+
Diversity & Inclusion
Journey Further takes pride in creating an environment where everyone can be themselves. This starts with recruitment.
We pledge to make our roles as open as possible and to provide equal opportunities to everyone that is kind enough to give us their time. All recruitment decisions we take will be based solely on the positive skills and behaviours that applicants display and absolutely nothing else.
We do not discriminate based on any personal characteristic, we are a people first agency and we care about and celebrate individuals.
If something is important to you, it's important to us. If you have a particular need during the application process or during your time at Journey Further, please let us know.
- Department
- Growth
- Locations
- Leeds, Manchester, London
- Yearly salary
- £62,000 - £70,000
- Employment type
- Full-time
Perks & Benefits
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Flexibility
We understand that everyone works differently, so we provide them the freedom to work how they want, when they want and where they want. No role is ever fully remote as we want people to be spending time with one another in person – however, we will support you in making sure you are supported in what ways of working suit you best.
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Experience
Work alongside one of the most experienced digital teams in the industry, and collaborate directly with clients at some of the world’s largest brands and high-growth startups.
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Wellbeing
We actively care for our team’s physical, mental and financial wellbeing.
We run various company initiatives to help promote physical wellbeing – yoga, running club, 5-a-side football to name a few.
We believe in taking a proactive approach when it comes to all our people’s mental wellbeing. As such we have partnered with experts from Vitality as well as trained Mental Health First Aiders, who our people can turn to in times of need
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Trust
We believe in giving ambitious people incredible autonomy in their work. You’ll have the freedom to tackle complex problems and the support of some of the talented people in the industry to do so.
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Learning
Through our Learn Together sessions, Book Club and Podcast, we learn from the best minds in the world and apply the most valuable insight to the work we do and how we run the business.
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CSR
CSR is a key priority for the business. We’re currently working on how we can make a lasting, positive impact on the world around us.
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Benefits
Our benefits package is constantly evolving. In the UK it currently includes:
- Pension matched up to 4%
- Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
- Private medical insurance
- Personal health fund
- Home working allowance
- 25 days annual leave, plus bank holidays and Christmas shutdown
- Unlimited unpaid holiday
In the US it currently includes:
- 401k matching
- Subsidized Medical, Dental & Vision
Company Life Insurance - Enhanced Maternity & Paternity cover
- Flexible and Remote working
- 19 days paid time off plus 12 federal holidays & office closure between Christmas and New Year.
- 1 additional day for observing a cultural, religious, or a personally meaningful occasion of their choice
- Unpaid time off
About Journey Further
Journey Further is a performance marketing agency working with the world's leading brands and fast-growth start-ups. We blend strategic thinking, creativity, digital channels and experimentation taking brands beyond performance.
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