Producer - Events

Designlab Experience; Dubai; On-site; AED 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A creative consultancy in Dubai seeks a Producer to lead innovative projects. The role involves managing client relationships, overseeing project teams, and ensuring successful execution. Candidates should be organized, creative, and capable of handling multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment. Collaboration and excellence in presentation are key to this position.

Qualifications

• Strong project management skills with attention to detail.
• Excellent communication and relationship-building abilities.
• Ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Lead creative pitches and develop strategies for clients.
• Manage project teams and oversee project profitability.
• Build and maintain effective client relationships.

Skills

Project management

Client relationship management

Leadership

Creative thinking

Organizational skills

Job description

What will you be doing day-to-day?

• Business Development
  • Lead winning creative pitches, alongside a select team of colleagues from the creative / design / strategic / production departments.
  • Understand clients’ business, strategy and business issues and serve as a trusted advisor to drive effective solutions.
  • Work alongside the client to develop strategy and creative pitches and programs that are ideas-led.
  • Confidently and comprehensively promote DLE and its services via presentation of its credentials and capabilities.
  • Guide the development of integrated solutions that leverage our offering and are mutually beneficial for the client and DLE.
  • Qualify and validate leads, prospect clients and identify promising opportunities aligned with the DLE offering and values.

Project Management

• Interrogate the brief, scoping of the project, necessary resources and budget.
• Deconstruct briefs and conceptual ideas quickly and thoroughly and in turn bring relevant team members up to speed.
• Articulate strategic creative briefs and ideas concisely.
• Support and lead, where necessary, creative brainstorms to generate ideas for clients.
• Work closely with the architectural, creative design and production teams in the preparation of experience & environmental concepts, from pitch through to final project delivery, ensuring that creative solutions remain faithful to the strategic thinking.
• Read and interpret architectural illustrations, space plans, drawings and contribute in the ideation.
• Conduct research, compile and present findings, insights and inspirations.
• Articulate and present (y)our thinking in an engaging way, both in written and spoken presentations to the client and team.
• Drive the development, writing and presentation of incremental project proposals, scopes of work, schedules and staffing plans.
• Be a master in organizing and maintaining the DLE job folders, asset library and toole for collaboration at all times.
• Be a passionate practitioner of high quality standards, measurement, as well as efficiency and effectiveness at work.
• Constantly strive to push the boundaries of our offer, both creatively and strategically, and seek innovation in our delivery.
• Produce award winning (event/installations) work throughout all stages of a project.

Client Management

• Build and maintain effective client relationships, ensuring that all clients’ needs are listened to, understood and responded to in a timely way.
• Ensure clear communication to the client regarding roles and responsibilities, scope, budget, variations, payments, schedules and project status/action items.

Team Management

• Be the conduit between internal and external teams & stakeholders.
• Manage project teams and their process from planning to execution and reconciliation.
• Ensure regular team meetings and manage communications (including emails, contact reports from internal and external meetings), ensuring all points are actioned and deadlines met.
• Coach and oversee junior team members on execution of all individual job details in your remit.
• Develop talent of junior team by providing challenging assignments and ongoing constructive feedback.
• Recommend best freelance and internal talent for the project and support resourcing requirements.
• Embrace and enhance company internal systems, processes and quality.

Budget Management

• Build comprehensive, robust, profitable and smartly put together project budgets on Procim.
• Budgetary control of projects, overseeing project profitability, ongoing value engineering, margin improvement and delivery to agreed financial target.
• Ensure cost estimates, project contracts, payment plans, project acceptance forms (PAFs), project change notices (PCNs) are clearly communicated to a client and approved.
• Lead communications, source and negotiate with suppliers and freelancers to maximise margins.
• Develop and actively manage vendor/ freelance talent relationships to ensure best available talent and pricing.
• Reconcile project costs against budget.

What kind of person are you?

• As a Producer you will act as a mentor, as much as a team member. You will DO and not just DIRECT.
• You work with the team to ensure that your projects are as progressive and creatively innovative as possible.
• You are responsible for the project management standards representing DLE.
• You bring your passion for the industry to the wider agency every day.
• You help to articulate and sell DLE to our clients the quality of your thinking, presentation skills, relationship-building abilities and passion for their brands/products and our business.
• You are great with people at all levels.
• You are self-motivated with the ability to work well individually and as part of a team
• You seize responsibility
• You are highly organised with excellent administration skills and flawless attention to detail
• You are unfazed by tight deadlines and conflicting priorities and remain calm and collected under pressure
• You are enthusiastic and contribute genuinely to the DLE culture and good team atmosphere.
• Support the ongoing development and evolution of DLE being an Experience Brand.
• Watch… listen... question... learn… develop… grow….