Jobs at The Independents

Leads strategic communications and day-to-day management for fashion, lifestyle, and culture-led client accounts. Develops communications strategies, manages senior client and media relationships, oversees fashion show logistics, evaluates campaign impact, supports new business, and identifies commercial growth opportunities. The role also leads, mentors, and develops account teams while representing the agency across the fashion and cultural industries.

Provides day-to-day HR administration support, including onboarding, employee records, recruitment administration, payroll and learning system updates, absence tracking, HR documentation, organizational charts, and employee inquiries. The role also supports HR projects, process improvements, and people initiatives while maintaining confidentiality, accuracy, and effective communication in a fast-paced environment.

Supports day-to-day accounting across multiple UK entities, including supplier invoices, accounts payable and receivable, customer billing, bank and intercompany reconciliations, expenses, credit card transactions, project codes, and month-end close activities. Maintains accurate financial records, prepares Excel files, responds to employee expense queries, and assists the Finance Manager and CFO with general finance administration.

Manage editorial and commercial photo and video productions from pre-production through delivery. Responsibilities include preparing budgets and schedules, coordinating crews, freelancers, suppliers, locations, equipment, transport, travel, and accommodation, overseeing shoots and post-production, tracking costs, reconciling budgets, and coordinating invoices. The role requires strong organization, communication, problem-solving, and multitasking skills, with occasional travel within Europe.

Leads creative strategy and concept development across campaigns, content, experiences, programming, and new business pitches for fashion, beauty, lifestyle, hospitality, and FMCG clients. Translates cultural insights into original ideas, directs creative quality, presents recommendations to clients, identifies talent and partners, supports commercial proposals, coordinates workflows, and mentors team members. The role requires strong conceptual judgment, cultural fluency, presentation skills, commercial awareness, and experience managing creative teams and external collaborators.

Lead and grow a flagship global account, manage senior client relationships, oversee integrated social, ATL and experiential campaigns, drive revenue growth and margin control, mentor four Account Leads, and implement operational processes to scale the agency.

Manage day-to-day PR activities for luxury fashion and lifestyle clients: generate coverage, oversee sample trafficking and gifting, build stylist/journalist and VIP/influencer relationships, run press events, support client liaison, lead junior staff, and report on press and social metrics.