Marketing Agency Recruitment

We recruit exceptional talent for marketing agencies, ensuring your clients receive innovative and effective marketing solutions.

What is a marketing agency?

A marketing agency is a highly commercial marketing business that employs a team of marketers who work across multiple clients in a range of sectors delivering best in class marketing solutions. Clients are usually brands or companies who outsource their marketing requirements to an agency as they are knowledgeable, professional, and experienced in delivering the best cutting edge marketing solutions. A marketing agency will deliver marketing strategy, assisting clients with go to market solutions for new products, a new brand or messaging around seasonality or campaign led promotions. Marketing agencies may be specialist like digital, social media, or outdoor, but will adopt a range of channels to amplify their client’s messages. They may also be full-service and offer creative services. Or they may be integrated agencies that off the full media range to build their marketing and advertising campaigns.

How do marketing agencies work with recruitment agencies?

Marketing agencies expand and contract, recruiting or letting go staff depending on the volume of work from their clients. Recruitment from marketing agencies are usually the first to pick up coming out of economic slowdowns when clients outsource to agencies rather than increasing their internal full time employee count. Contracts between clients and marketing agencies can be flexible, allowing for campaign and project-based activity or longer-term contracts. Key roles include account managers, client service staff, hands on marketers and business development specialists. Marketing agencies tent to work closely with good recruitment agencies to ensure they can staff up quickly when they win new business, employing contract or permanent staff on demand. The sector is extremely competitive, so the best staff give individual agencies the edge on winning new business.

Why do marketing agencies work with The Candidate?

The Candidate has developed strong, long-term relationships with marketing agencies over the years, really understanding their culture, the sectors they specialise in and their staff’s career opportunities. We’ll be on their preferred supplier lists and have bespoke commercials that allow for effective hiring. We’ll have placed many of their senior managers as candidates who are now our clients recruiting into their teams. In many instances, we’ll work on open and ongoing briefs, presenting new candidates to clients as soon as they are on the market. We’ll use our leading Applicant Tracking Software to understand candidates career journey’s and be available when candidates need advice on existing roles or developing their careers.

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Laura is a true professional. She strikes the perfect balance of supporting and challenging you at the same time. Having experienced Executive Search headhunters previously, what really makes Laura stand out is that she genuinely cares for her candidate, the role and the business she is working on behalf on. This seems like a simple point, but her authenticity and passion shines through at every step. I would wholeheartedly recommend Laura to anyone looking for or being approached by her for a new role.
Pete Metcalf CEO, Social Chain

I used The Candidate because I had struggled via other generalist recruiters. Elliot Jones at The Candidate was absolutely brilliant. This all ended with him finding me the perfect Senior Marketing Manager in the Manchester area.
Nicola Clark People Partner, Insomnia Cookies

Blake helped me secure an IT Account Manager role with an extremely quick turnaround. Very quick and efficient and couldn’t have asked for more.
Steven Forde IT Account Manager

Evie Barker contacted me with an amazing role and was fab throughout the whole process - great communication and answered all of my questions!
Jay Parker Influencer Manager, Social Chain

I recommend Laura to all of my clients that are seeking to make an executive appointment. Having worked together on a number of projects I am lucky enough to have seen first hand her passion for exceeding client expectations. Laura's commitment to understanding the brief at hand, combined with her pride in the job and desire to win, always results in happy clients; it is common for CEOs and CMOs to call and thank me for making the introduction. Always a pleasure to spend time with, professionally and socially. If you want to hire the right person for your business, make sure you speak to Laura.
Elliot Muscant Managing Partner, Open Partners

Recently had the pleasure working with Chris to secure me an SEO Associate Director role based in Manchester. Communication was really great and definitely recommend him. Thanks Chris!
Gemma Laverty SEO Account Director

Impeccable professionalism, her communication was always on point and the tips to cause an impression was of great value. I would like to thank her for the great service and will highly recommend the company.
Chris Machin CRM Executive, Betfred

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