Senior Events Project Manager - #2187202

Senior Event Project Manager (Experiential)

£40,000 – £50,000

Leeds / Hybrid working

ThePlaceToBe are delighted to be partnering with a seriously exciting experiential agency with an impressive portfolio of well known brands and a growing pipeline of creative projects. They're looking to expand their team with a Senior Event Project Manager to help deliver exciting brand experiences, retail activations and large scale live events.

About the role

As Senior Event Project Manager, you’ll take ownership of a variety of exciting projects, leading everything from the initial brief and planning stages through to production and onsite delivery. You'll work closely with clients, creative teams, suppliers and production partners to bring ideas to life, ensuring projects are delivered seamlessly, on time and within budget.

What you’ll be doing:

• Managing multiple experiential, retail activation and event projects from brief through to delivery

• Leading project planning, timelines, budgets and production schedules

• Managing client relationships and acting as a key point of contact throughout projects

• Coordinating suppliers, fabricators, production partners and operational teams

• Overseeing the delivery of physical builds, structures, installations and branded environments

• Leading onsite delivery and managing any challenges that arise

• Working closely with creative, production and operations teams to bring ideas to life

• Taking the lead on more junior members of the team, helping manage workloads and develop their skills

About you

We’re looking for an experienced Senior Event Project Manager from an experiential, events or creative agency background who loves bringing big ideas to life. You'll be confident managing projects with a strong production element, ideally with experience across retail activations, physical builds and branded environments.

You’ll ideally have:

• Proven experience delivering experiential projects, retail activations or brand experiences

• Strong agency experience within events, experiential or live production

• Experience managing structural builds, temporary installations, exhibition stands or branded environments

• Excellent client and stakeholder management skills

• Strong budget, commercial and project management skills

• Experience managing suppliers, fabricators, logistics and production teams

• Experience supporting, mentoring or leading more junior team members, with the confidence to lead by example

This is one of many exciting opportunities here at ThePlaceToBe, so if you're interested in an informal chat about your next career move, don't hesitate to get in touch