Talent Relations And Events Manager
Current- Produced 5+ large-scale events and experiential plans across all titles for panels, sales, e-commerce KPIs, and in-booth programming at tentpole industry activations such as San Diego Comic-Con International and New York Comic Con.- Generated new creator payment system cross-functionally ensuring track-ability and accountability across Operations, Accounting and Editorial departments to ensure 20+ timely and accurate outgoing payments weekly, increasing payment accuracy by 96%.- Created a new onboarding process and docs for creators to ensure talent had all information needed and felt resourced in their connections between editorial, talent relations, and marketing/sales departments.- Work closely with Marketing, Publicity, and Sales teams to promote products, share press releases directly with talent for social media promotion, and schedule signings with various retailers.- Improved outreach and pipeline systems to recruit and retain and grow new and veteran creators evangelized cross-company through weekly newsletters.- Achieved strong relationships with relevant internal and external stakeholders to ensure 360-degree talent management strategy for retainment and storytelling alongside Senior Director.- Increased company communications with internal Weekly Releases newsletter to share new releases company-wide.- Improved creator complimentary copies program to industry standards, shipping to 30+ countries across 300+ creators, updating weekly report of recipients and quantities for Print Run and mailroom, increasing efficiency.- Planned creative workshops and summits with key external and internal stakeholders across priority licenses to aid creators' growth and development, and to curate storytelling excellence.- Managed crisis communications with agents and creators to maintain strong relationships when needed.
