# Talent Manager

**Company:** [Somerce](http://jobs.workable.com/companies/mKtSUvTN6w5K3w79rfEmoj.md)
**Location:** Manchester, United Kingdom
**Workplace:** hybrid
**Employment type:** Full-time

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## Description

### **About Somerce**

Somerce is a TikTok Shop specialist agency driving **GMV growth** for brands through LIVE commerce, affiliates and creators.

Our talent arm focuses on building, managing and scaling high-performing **TikTok LIVE presenters** and creators who power some of the biggest LIVE moments on the platform. Talent is a core growth engine for the business, not a side project.

**Our clients include:** P.Louise, Unilever, Free Soul & L'Oreal

### What you will do

This is a **talent-first, commercially driven role**.

We’re looking for an experienced **Talent Manager** to recruit, develop and manage a roster of **TikTok LIVE presenters**, with secondary focus on content creators. You’ll be responsible for finding the best on-camera talent, shaping their performance and ensuring they are deployed effectively across client LIVE programmes.

This role suits someone who has already worked in **influencer or talent management** and understands how to balance talent relationships with commercial outcomes.

### Talent Recruitment (Core Focus)

-   Proactively source and recruit TikTok LIVE presenters
-   Identify high-potential on-camera talent with strong selling ability
-   Run casting, auditions and trial LIVE sessions
-   Build a deep pipeline of reliable, high-performing LIVE hosts
-   Recruit supporting content creators where relevant

### Talent Management & Development

-   Own relationships with a roster of LIVE presenters
-   Manage availability, performance and progression
-   Support talent with:

-   LIVE best practices
-   Brand alignment
-   On-camera confidence and selling techniques

-   Act as the main point of contact between talent and Somerce

### Commercial & Deployment Focus

-   Work closely with:

-   LIVE Strategists
-   LIVE Ops
-   Account teams

-   Match the right talent to the right brands and LIVE formats
-   Ensure talent performance aligns with GMV and conversion goals
-   Manage expectations around briefs, performance standards and behaviour

### Performance & Standards

-   Track and review presenter performance across LIVE sessions
-   Identify top performers and develop them into lead hosts
-   Address underperformance quickly and constructively
-   Maintain a high bar for professionalism, reliability and results

### How You’ll Work

-   Fast-paced, high-ownership environment
-   Strong collaboration with strategy and ops teams
-   Clear performance expectations
-   Trusted to build and scale the talent function

## Requirements

### What We’re Looking For

### Essential

-   Proven experience in **talent or influencer management**
-   Strong background managing creators, presenters or on-camera talent
-   Confident recruiting, negotiating and managing relationships
-   Strong understanding of TikTok, creators and LIVE content
-   Commercial mindset with comfort balancing talent needs and business goals

### Desirable

-   Experience managing TikTok LIVE presenters
-   Background in social commerce, live selling or performance media
-   Existing creator or presenter network

## Benefits

### Core Benefits

-   **Competitive salary**, benchmarked to experience and performance
-   **Performance-related bonus / commission** aligned to commercial impact
-   **28 days holiday + bank holidays**
-   **Hybrid working** with offices in London and Manchester
-   **Flexible working hours** – we care about output, not clock-watching

### Growth & Career Development

-   **Clear progression paths** with responsibility early
-   **Regular performance reviews** focused on development and impact
-   **Direct exposure to high-growth brands** across the UK, US and EU
-   Opportunity to work at the **cutting edge of TikTok Shop and social commerce**

### Financial & Lifestyle Perks

-   **Company pension scheme**
-   **Monthly wellness allowance** (gym, fitness, mental wellbeing or similar)
-   **Team socials and events** throughout the year
-   **Staff discounts** across our brands and partners

### Work Environment

-   Fast-paced, high-ownership culture
-   Minimal bureaucracy and maximum accountability
-   Surrounded by people who care about performance, creativity and doing things properly
-   A business that wins with its clients, shared success matters

### The Somerce Difference

-   We trust our people
-   We move quickly and back good ideas
-   You’ll have real influence, not just responsibility
-   If you perform, you’ll grow, simple as that