- Head of Live / Executive Producer -

CastleBell Recruitment; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking an Executive Producer to lead the production of world-class events across various exciting sectors. This role involves managing a talented team, collaborating with creative departments, and ensuring the successful execution of large-scale projects. With over 15 years of experience in the live events industry, you will guide and mentor production teams while overseeing complex budgets and fostering strong client relationships. If you have a passion for delivering exceptional events and thrive in a dynamic environment, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• 15+ years in a senior production role within live events.
• Experience managing production/project teams at a senior level.

Responsibilities

• Lead production and project managers for world-class events.
• Collaborate with creative teams to ensure high-quality outputs.

Skills

Leadership Skills

Project Management

Event Production

Budget Management

Creative Collaboration

Technical Event Production

Content Production

Supplier Management

Job description

Are you excited by the prospect of delivering world-class events including large-scale hospitality at exciting sporting events, brand activations, fan zones, and corporate events for an array of awesome clients?

This person would work across account and project management, and alongside creative and production, leading the event production teams to deliver world-class and award-winning event projects globally. You will also be working on your own live projects as an Executive Producer, as well as managing the team.

This role would entail:

• Leading and inspiring production and project managers including permanent and freelance.
• Working closely with the creative department to ensure proposals and output are best in class, highly creative, feasible, and on budget.
• Working with the Creative Director, Client Services Directors, and Managing Director to ensure agency integration and collaboration is positive and client confidence is high.
• Mentoring and guiding members of the department to drive their development.
• Ensuring consistent working practices across projects, including freelance teams.

We are looking for the following experience:

• Previous relevant experience in a similar senior production role within the live events industry (15+ years).
• Leadership skills, managing a production/project management team at a senior level.
• Collaborating with Creative Directors and Creative Leads to interpret and drive best-in-class creative output.
• Leading on production process, tools, and documentation.
• Long-term experience of complex multi-market/global budgets, £multi-million.
• Confidence in the creation of budgets, and costing ideas accurately.
• Global knowledge of suppliers.
• Allocating the best teams to produce events globally.
• Strong knowledge of end-to-end technical event production.
• Content and digital production experience (film, interactive, digital).
• Knowledge of various fabrication and production methods.
• Competence across all event disciplines: experiential, corporate, B2B, employee, exhibitions, outdoor, temporary structure, hospitality.

We look forward to hearing from you. We are only able to accept applicants with an agency background and with the unrestricted right to work in the UK.