Influencer Manager

DEPT® is a Growth Invention company built to help the world’s most ambitious brands grow faster. Operating at the intersection of technology and marketing, our 4,000+ specialists deliver growth invention services across Brand & Media, Experience, Commerce, CRM, and Technology & Data. We’re 50|50 tech and marketing, partner-led, and first to move. Clients include Google, Lufthansa, Meta, eBay, and OpenAI. We have been certified B Corp and Climate Neutral since 2021.

This position sits in our
Marketing & Technology service based in London. We combine data, technology, creative content, and paid media to crack brands’ business problems & drive revenue through a variety of digital marketing solutions like ad campaigns, augmented reality, and chatbots. Our clients include Just Eat Takeaway, The Macallan, easy

Jet, Tik Tok, and eBay.

Brands aren’t coming to us for safe bets or small optimisations.

They’re asking:

• How do we move culture, not just attention?
• How do we grow when the category is flat and everyone’s shouting?
• How do we turn creators into a real business driver, not a line item?

These aren’t problems you solve by tweaking last year’s plan.

They demand connected thinking across culture, creativity, data, and media - and the confidence to make moves before they’re obvious.

At DEPT®, influencer marketing is a core growth discipline. Not an add-on. Not an afterthought. We design creator ecosystems that scale, adapt, and deliver measurable impact - across brand, performance, and commerce.

We’re looking for an
Influencer Manager who lives and breathes culture, understands the creator economy, and knows how to turn what’s happening online into smart, effective work for brands.

You’ll manage end-to-end influencer campaigns across global and regional clients, including Pepsi Co, Visa, easy

Jet, OpenAI, Mammut and eBay
, working across always-on ecosystems, launches, and test-and-learn innovation.

This role is hands-on and delivery-focused, with room to contribute strategically, grow client confidence, and build strong relationships across creators, platforms, and internal teams.

• Lead end-to-end influencer campaigns, including creator discovery, contracting, activation, content approval, publishing, and post-campaign reporting, ensuring timely delivery and KPI achievement.
• Develop and implement influencer strategies that translate client objectives into culturally relevant, commercially effective campaigns, while ensuring brand, legal, regulatory, and platform compliance.
• Serve as a primary client contact, managing expectations, flagging risks, and building strong relationships with creators, agents, platforms, and internal teams.
• Collaborate across Creative, Paid Social, Media, Strategy, Production, and Commerce teams to integrate influencer activity and maximise reach and performance.
• Oversee campaign budgets, scopes, timelines, and financial reconciliation, identifying risks to sustainable delivery.
• Analyse and report campaign performance, using insights to optimise activity and evolve measurement beyond vanity metrics.
• Stay current on platform updates, creator trends, and regulations, applying knowledge to live campaigns.

• 2 - 4 years’ experience delivering influencer campaigns within an agency or similar environment.
• Hands‑on experience managing creators, content approvals, timelines, and budgets.
• Strong understanding of social platforms and the creator economy.
• Experience using influencer platforms such as Creator
  
  IQ, Traackr, or Tagger (or similar).
• Confident communicator with strong organisational and project management skills.
• Curious, culturally aware, and commercially minded.
• A belief that great influencer work should be creative, effective, and sustainable.

• A flexible, hybrid working policy (2 days from the office, depending on location).
• An excellent salary based on experience and equal pay policies.
• Pension, free private healthcare, mental health support, and company sick pay scheme.
• Refreshments are provided in the office all week, as well as drinks at 4 pm on a Thursday.
• Help getting you to work with a season ticket loan and cycle to work scheme.
• Enha…