Audio Agency Manager
Job Title: Audio Agency Manager
As an Agency Manager, you’ll be the driving force behind Global’s audio revenue growth across your patch of media agencies. Your role is outward-facing, focused on building meaningful agency relationships, uncovering new opportunities, and delivering client-led, commercially effective solutions.
As an Audio 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.
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.
Work closely with your OOH colleague to ensure we are maximizing opportunities across both revenue streams
What You’ll Love About This Role
Think Big: – 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.
Own It: A high-impact, client-facing role where you can shape strategy and drive revenue growth across a diverse audio portfolio.
Keep it Simple: Utilise your commercial acumen and use data and insight teams to provide analysis to understand your agencies revenue performance metrics
Better Together: Be part of a supportive, high-performing team — with access to market-leading data, insight and creative expertise.
What Success Looks Like
In your first few months, you’ll have:
Built key relationships with your agency network
Efficient monitoring of forecasting
Clear Business Planning client focus will be key in order to monitor success and meet company objectives
Driven product focus on commercial priorities DAX/Podcasts/Partnership
What You’ll Need
A passion for audio and media, with knowledge of the evolving digital and agency landscape.
A track record in commercial roles — either media sales or agency-side.
A collaborative mindset with a proactive, can-do attitude.
Confidence using insight and data to shape commercial stories and recommendations.
Strong organisational skills — able to manage competing priorities and deliver against deadlines.
Top Skills
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.
