As an Agency Manager at Global, you will:
Key Responsibilities
Revenue & Growth
- Deliver sustainable revenue growth from across your agency portfolio, covering both linear and digital audio.
- Understand the shift towards digital audio and how you can influence growth in those areas.
- Identify new opportunities by aligning Global’s audio products to client strategies and marketing objectives.
- Through commercial acumen and analysis understand your agencies revenue performance metrics.
Agency Relationships
- Build strong, trusted relationships with key investment & planning contacts across your agency patch.
- Influence media planning decisions and become a consultative partner for audio expertise.
- Lead agency inspiration sessions to showcase Global’s portfolio, innovations and new opportunities
Insight & Innovation
- Champion audio by sharing insight, performance data, and case studies to inspire investment.
- Collaborate with internal teams to develop insight-led responses to brief and new revenue initiatives.
Collaboration & Delivery
- Work closely with specialists across planning, digital, creative and operations to deliver outstanding client campaigns.
- Ensure effective campaign delivery and ongoing optimisation to drive repeat business.
- Support coach and mentor Activation/Media Execs guiding them through their progression and development.
- Work closely with your OOH colleague to ensure we are maximizing opportunities across both revenue streams.
Forecasting & Pipeline
- Maintain a clear and accurate pipeline via Salesforce — forecasting performance by week and month and identifying trends.
- Have a clearly defined and workable business plan for your portfolio.
- Be accountable for revenue targets and performance metrics across your agency patch.
What You'll Love About This Role
Think Big: Respond to client briefs using the full scale of Global
Own It: Take responsibility for projects, becoming a trusted lead for agencies and internal teams.
Keep it Simple: Bring clarity to complex projects through strong organisation, problem-solving and communication.
Better Together: Be part of a collaborative, creative team that supports one another and celebrates success.
What Success Looks Like
In your first months, you'll have:
- Built your network - A high-impact, client-facing role where you can shape strategy and drive revenue growth across a diverse audio portfolio.
- Be Part of a Supportive Team - Part of a supportive, high-performing team — with access to market-leading data, insight and creative expertise.
- Grow Your Expertise – Representing Global’s exciting and ever evolving offering you’ll become a go-to expert on all things audio, from radio to podcasts and digital.
What You Will Need
The ideal candidate will be proactive and willing to develop and implement innovative solutions, capable of the following:
- A passion for audio and media, with knowledge of the evolving digital and agency landscape.
- Strong communication and presentation skills — confident, credible and persuasive.
- Knowledge of all Global platforms both traditional and digital
- Proven ability in successfully delivering agency revenue targets
- Thorough understanding of the key challenges we face commercially and how we may overcome these
- Ownership and development of new product launches and initiatives
- Be a team player
- Ability to work and successfully adapt to a fast-paced, ever changing environment
Skills Required
- Passion for audio and media, with knowledge of the evolving digital and agency landscape
- Strong communication and presentation skills; confident, credible, and persuasive
- Knowledge of Global’s traditional and digital platforms
- Proven ability to deliver agency revenue targets
- Thorough understanding of commercial challenges and how to overcome them
- Ability to own and develop new product launches and initiatives
- Team-oriented approach
- Ability to adapt successfully to a fast-paced, changing environment
Global Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Global and has not been reviewed or approved by Global.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — 25 days’ annual leave plus an extra work‑anniversary day, with the option to buy up to five additional days, points to broad time‑off flexibility. Enhanced family and accessibility leave further expand coverage.
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Healthcare Strength — Access to a 24/7 virtual GP, health and dental discount programs, long‑term sickness insurance, and life assurance at 4x salary indicate robust health protection. Free Headspace membership and nutrition coaching complement the core offering.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Discounted gym memberships, cashback benefits, discounted travel insurance, and access to company‑sponsored music events contribute lifestyle value. Feedback suggests these extras add to a fun, wellbeing‑oriented culture.
Global Insights
What We Do
The UK and Europe’s largest Radio & Outdoor company, Global is home to respected, national market-leading media brands broadcasting across the UK on DAB & FM and around the world on Global Player, including Heart, Capital, LBC, Capital XTRA, Capital Dance, Classic FM, Smooth, Radio X and Gold. Global Player allows listeners to enjoy all of Global’s radio brands, award-winning podcasts, and expertly curated playlists, in one place in app, on web and on smart speakers. Global is also one of the leading Outdoor companies in both the UK & Europe, with over 253,000 sites reaching 95% of the UK population. Global’s extensive and diverse outdoor portfolio encompasses Transport for London’s Underground network, almost all major UK airports including Gatwick, the UK’s largest portfolio of roadside posters and premium digital screens in prime locations, as well as the UK’s largest network of buses including all major cities. On-air, on Global Player and with our outdoor platforms combined, Global reaches 51 million individuals across the UK every week, including 26.3 million on the radio alone.
