Über diese Senior Producer, Experiential Stelle bei WME
The Senior Event Producer is key within the agency, leading projects for our major accounts and overseeing the full project lifecycle—from client relationships and pre-production to live event delivery onsite.
It's a senior role that reports in to the Project Director and sits in the heart of the team. It will involve supporting and mentoring junior members of the team and with support you will own and develop accounts, building, nurturing, and holding relationships with key clients and meeting potential requirements the client may have beyond the project brief and day-to-day management of assigned accounts.
You will lead large projects, manage budgets and support a team on a daily basis. Each project will be different and may include experimental marketing, events or hybrid virtual events.
The Role:
Event Leadership: Oversee the full lifecycle of live, hybrid, and experiential events.
Client Management: Build and nurture client relationships, identifying growth opportunities.
Budget & Resource Management: Manage budgets, suppliers, and production timelines.
Team Development: Support and mentor junior team members.
Onsite Delivery: Lead event execution, troubleshooting issues for seamless delivery.
Creativity: Collaborate with the creative team to meet client expectations and budgets.
Supplier & Partner Management: Manage suppliers and run workshops to share knowledge within the agency.
Responsibilities (General)
Be a reliable and trusted member of a project team
Prioritise daily workload for yourself and other members of your project team to ensure you remain organised and monitor progress to meet planned deadlines
Be organised, proactive and show initiative
Communicate proactively and professionally with your colleagues and be available to mentor and support junior members of the team
Be available and approachable to support the team and answer client questions
Be open, honest and contribute positively to the company culture
Support the New Business team and be involved with pitch and new business opportunities
Keep up to date with social, digital, and cultural trends
Maintain up-to-date industry knowledge through reading publications and journals
Continually work to improve client relationships
Provide strong leadership, motivation, direction, and support to the project team
Identify and react appropriately to events threatening the planned output
Identify where you add value to the business and its products
Responsibilities (Project)
Own the budget & client management process, both internally and for the client on projects up to £750k
Create and keep up-to-date project budgets ensuring agreed margins remain in place until final payments are received and issued
Ensure that all production/project processes are completed to the highest standard, are accurate, to budget and on time
Lead weekly project team and client meetings often required to pitch and sell in ideas
Have a high level of organisation and be able to work across multiple projects and manage multiple accounts
Assign and brief project team members on their roles and responsibilities in both pre-production and on site
Build teams based on the projects needs
Represent the agency to clients, suppliers, and guests in a positive and approachable manner
Format keynote documents to then present to clients
Have a willingness to be involved with pitch and presentation work for the new business or creative department
Actively seek new ways to improve on completing tasks quickly and sharing methods with the team
Check all project information that is issued including budgets, drawings, data, contracts, supplier information is correct and, if necessary, ensure that any amendments are made prior to issue
Responsibilities (Account)
Act as the key contact for clients, providing Account Management skills and be aware of, and deliver on, all client requirements
Continually work hard to improve client satisfaction
A confident presenter who’s not afraid to be put on the spot and answer difficult questions
Build on your knowledge of our client's brand identities and what would and wouldn’t work for each client
Liaise with client/ project teams to ensure a full and thorough flow of information between all parties
With support collate and deliver account management plans
Responsibilities (Production)
Have an in-depth understanding of production and creative and be able to brief those departments
Ensure that contact sheets, agendas, status reports, production schedules etc are compiled and sent out pre and post meeting
Liaise with suppliers and external contractors in a positive and relationship building manner
Build on your production and creative knowledge and if desired learn systems and programs within these departments, such as SketchUp, CAD, illustrator
Have an extensive supplier database which continues to grow
Continue to build on existing skills for delivering successful events and keep up to date with new technologies
Ensure all Public Liability and any other applicable insurances are in order to cover all relevant risks inherent in the project
Work with the Production Manager/Director to ensure that all areas of staffing and other elements of projects have the appropriate H&S and other contractual stipulations correctly in place
You Have These:
Experience in office sharing programmes (word, excel, teams)
Mac user
Communicates effectively and constructively with the team and clients
Excellent written and presentation ability
Able to complete tasks with strong attention to detail
Able to work on multiple projects simultaneously and prioritise workload
Great at timekeeping and time-management
Flexible approach to problem solving
Bring fresh ideas to the team and challenge the status quo
Be experienced in working individually or within a team on a variety of projects
Confident when selling ideas to client and colleagues
Experience in a fast-paced working environment
Experience working with clients of varied sizes in different sectors
Several years industry experience
A positive can-do attitude
A solutions-based mindset
A natural gravitas and presence to make things happen
Punctual, meets deadlines and can prioritise deadlines
A natural leader & team player who’s able to get the best out of their team by being reliable, trustworthy, and honest
Ambitious, dynamic, autonomous, organised, self-motivated, calm, positive & resilient
Culturally aware and sensitive
Aware of current trends, openings, and experiences
An ability to think strategically about marketing challenges, whatever the brief, audience, or channel
Committed, enthusiastic, self-motivated and have high personal standards
A keen interest in sports and culture
