Project Manager

GES - Global Experience Specialists; Coventry; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dynamic team as a Project Manager in an exciting industry! This role offers the chance to lead exhibition builds from concept to completion, ensuring top-notch quality and adherence to budgets. You will collaborate with various teams, manage suppliers, and oversee logistics while traveling to venues across the UK and EU. This full-time position offers a competitive salary based on experience and the opportunity for career progression within a forward-thinking organization committed to diversity and inclusion. If you're ready to embrace a challenging yet rewarding role, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Benefits

Career Progression Opportunities

Competitive Salary

Diversity and Inclusion Commitment

Qualifications

• 2-5 years of project management experience in related fields.
• Strong analytical skills to manage project costs and performance.

Responsibilities

• Lead exhibition builds from initial brief to on-site delivery.
• Manage project budgets and coordinate with various teams.
• Travel to oversee builds and ensure quality before client handoff.

Skills

Project Management

Budget Control

Supplier Management

Technical Design

Drafting (CAD)

Microsoft Office Suite

Customer Service

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Exhibit Construction/Management

Relevant Experience in Architecture or Business Management

Tools

Spiro Software

Transport/Tracking Software

ERP and Inventory Management Systems

Job description

Are you a Project Manager? Do you want to join a dynamic company in an exciting industry?
Spiro are currently recruiting for a Project Manager to join our Operations team. The Project Manager is responsible for leading and successfully managing all post-sale fabrication and warehouse service projects orders through the production and fulfilment process to meet or beat estimated cost and quality targets.

Who we are
Born from the legacy of marketing experts at GES and now part of the GES Collective, Spiro was created to meet the changing needs of today’s brand marketers. The brand experience agency for the NEW NOW. We are a community of global event professionals, who have combined all of the talent and passions of brand experiences we’ve created in the past, to embrace and be empowered by the NEW NOW.

We are a community of global strategists, thinkers, dreamers, creators, producers, innovators, builders, branders, marketers, technologists, logistics experts and ops specialists. We use creative strategy and solutions to deliver more powerful opportunities to connect and create community in a constantly changing world. By having the courage to challenge the brief, the status quo and the forces of change, we unlock what is possible in the NEW NOW, no matter how quickly NOW is changing, and no matter where the audience’s THERE is.

What will you do?

1. Manage exhibition builds from very initial brief to delivery on site.
2. Controlling budgets, build, design, technical design, graphics and logistics teams to make sure all services align on site.
3. Managing suppliers for electrics, flooring, graphics and AV prior to build and on site.
4. Attend group meetings and explain all project details and objectives.
5. Check project budgets for accuracy against project details and manage this through Spiro software.
6. Send clear briefs to technical design to achieve project objectives.
7. Confidentially discuss engineering solutions with account management, build and design team.
8. Provide all details to the sales, estimating, and production team.
9. Issue technical drawings to account manager, graphics and build for approval.
10. Submit logistics information and accurate requirements to depot and control transport timings with project lead times.
11. Traveling to UK/EU venues to oversee build and suppliers and sign off build quality before handing this to the client.
12. Check all shipping documents for shipment accuracy.
13. Identify items for purchase and optimize items usage for sustainable and financial prospects.
14. Be flexible and forward thinking towards the project creating and adapting to last minute changes/adds which will benefit the project.
15. Monitor build progress and alert production and sales of any concerns to prevent errors.
16. Review and approve quality of produced items.
17. Run cost reports and alert production of possible cost over-runs.
18. Coordinate graphics production, to include accurate graphic sizes, proofs, etc.
19. Working with external departments closely, sales and accounts to meet all ExpoServices required.
20. Proficient knowledge of transport/tracking software.
21. Proficient knowledge of GBMS (bespoke software - training provided).

What you’ll need

1. Bachelor’s Degree or relevant experience in Exhibit Construction/Management, Architecture, Construction Management, Business Management, Industrial Design or related fields.
2. 2-5 or more years related experience.
3. Drafting experience, CAD drafting preferred.
4. Thorough knowledge of spreadsheets, databases, word processing and graphics.
5. Ability to analyze available information and make sound decisions.
6. Ability to monitor, understand, manage, and control project costs and their impacts on project performance.
7. Strong Microsoft Office Suite skills (Excel, Word, PPT).
8. Experience using ERP, Work Order, and Inventory Management Systems preferred.
9. Ability to understand and read fabrication and installation drawings.
10. Excellent customer service and communication skills.

Development and benefits
At Spiro we look to equip you with the tools required for you to progress in your career with us. With plenty of internal opportunities to move within the business and the backing of line managers, progression is key to the business growing. This is a full-time role offering a competitive salary, dependent on experience. We operate a reward strategy based on our team members receiving a salary that best reflects their experience and skill level.

Diversity - the art of thinking independently, together!
Spiro is fully committed to Diversity, Equality and Inclusion.