Talent and Operations Manager

Marvellous London - Full-time - On-site Start: October 2026 Marvellous is a media and talent company. We represent Peter Crouch and Abbey Clancy and run the commercial side of That Peter Crouch Podcast and The Therapy Crouch, alongside the brand partnerships around them. This role holds it all together. In a typical week you'll be across 15–20 live commercial threads with global FMCG, automotive, betting, retail and streaming partners. You'll be the first person a brand hears from, the person who prices the work, marks up the agreement and chases the payment. It's two jobs in one: the commercial and operations lead for Marvellous Talent, and the founder's executive assistant across everything he runs. You need to be as comfortable building a P&L as booking a glam team for a 6am call time. WHAT YOU'LL OWN

• Brand partnerships: qualify every inbound enquiry, price and negotiate against our rate cards, decline what doesn't fit, run the podcast sponsorship pipeline, and track every deliverable on every live campaign.
• Contracts: first read and mark-up of every agreement before it goes to our lawyers, brief legal, issue for signature, chase, archive. Execute NDAs and addenda under delegated authority.
• Finance: raise every invoice, chase receivables, schedule payroll, creator payouts, VAT and Corporation Tax across multiple entities. Xero reconciliation, monthly P&L and the revenue forecast. Flag cash-flow pressure early.
• Talent & production: the talent's weekly schedule, shoots, recordings and events, glam and travel, approvals and asset selects, posting sponsored content when needed.
• Executive support to the founder: across all of his businesses, not just Talent. Whether the meeting, email or errand is about Marvellous Talent, the podcasts, Marvellous AI or HairGym, it's yours. Diary end to end, daily inbox sweep, travel, expenses, and a written end-of-day update with the decisions you need from him. HOW DECISIONS GET MADE You decide: standard rates, declining low or conflicting offers, first-pass contract mark-ups, all invoicing and payments, sponsorship accept/decline within our exclusivity rules, bookings. You bring to the founder: go/no-go on large or sensitive deals, unusual pricing, anything that depends on the talent's preferences, cash shortfalls, conflicts between partners. WHO YOU ARE
• Experience in talent management, influencer marketing or brand partnerships, with deals you've negotiated yourself
• Commercially sharp: you can hold a rate and walk away from a low number without losing the relationship
• Comfortable reading and marking up contracts
• Numerate and tidy with money: invoicing, Xero, payroll, VAT, a P&L you can build and explain
• Calm with 15–20 live threads at once, and a written record of every one
• Direct, brief, and you ask for the decision you need
• Discreet with fees, contracts and personal logistics for high-profile talent
• Hands-on: nothing is beneath the role, and you see the executive support as part of the job, not a distraction from it
• Curious about how the founder's businesses fit together, and proactive with AI tools Tools: Xero, Notion, Google Sheets, DocuSign, Acast, AdCollab, Meta Business, YouTube Studio, Trello, Modash, Claude. HOW TO APPLY Email john@marvellousclub.com with your CV and a short note on the biggest deal you've personally negotiated and what you'd do differently. Subject line: Talent & Operations Manager. We reply to everyone.