Senior Account Manager - Global Event Branding & Signage

TEAM; Orpington; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

THE·TEAM in Orpington is seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead live signage and branding projects for motorsports clients. You will manage client expectations, budgets and schedules, coordinating cross-functional teams across offices and on-site locations with travel up to 14 days.

The role emphasizes strategic client advisory, robust planning, risk mitigation and ensuring health and safety standards on every project, with opportunities to develop revenue through ongoing contracts and new

Qualifications

• Strong project management experience across operational planning and delivery, to challenging timeframes.
• Collaborative and clear approach to commercial development and communication.
• Strong in relationship management and diplomacy, including negotiating with and influencing decision making.
• Ability to handle numerous tasks simultaneously, prioritizing and delegating where required, while ensuring continuous attention-to-detail.
• Excellent organizational and communication skills, ensuring project systems and procedures are setup and structured correctly.
• Ability to think on your feet, evaluate risks and take decision to resolve issues, demonstrating problem solving skills.
• Confident taking the financial lead on projects and client accounts, managing budgets and cost control.

Responsibilities

• Central senior day to day contact for our clients and overall management of project delivery.
• Creation of project and signage programs, budgets and project documentation, developing successful delivery strategies based on client-led operational deadlines.
• Detailed advance planning and management of complex logistical requirements.
• Providing clear and timely internal communications, working with LIVE·TEAM Studio, Production and Logistics Teams to schedule capacity and ensure detailed planning, as well as management of on-site resource/teams.
• Communicating and managing program deadlines with clients, ensuring key dates are met and client expectations are continuously managed.
• Understand, develop and manage the client's objectives, priorities and expectations.
• Provide line management and direction to other team members, ensuring all client and LIVE·TEAM requirements are met to the highest standards and team members are supported and developed.
• Lead by example and ensure knowledge sharing within the team and wider business.
• Ensuring LIVE·TEAM and client Health and Safety processes are adhered to, promoting best practice across every single project.
• Working with the LIVE·TEAM H&S Manager to ensure documentation is correct, continuously reviewed and updated.
• Ensuring contract terms are understood, monitored and met, and your wider account team continues to deliver a high-quality service against agreed contract KPIs.
• Building strong, trusted and long-lasting relationships, providing strategic advice to clients leading to development of existing revenue streams, identification of new business opportunities and ongoing contract renewal.
• Senior oversight and day-to-day budget control, working closely with the Account Director and Associate Director to monitor, control and accurately price projects, maximizing margins and ensuring timely payment schedules.
• Proactively drive and champion LIVE·TEAM's sustainability policy, finding innovative ways to align our goals with that of our clients through the use of more environmentally friendly products, processes and delivery strategies.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder management

Budget management

Client relationship management

Risk mitigation

Leadership

Communication

Job description

THE·TEAM in Orpington is seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead live signage and branding projects for motorsports clients. You will manage client expectations, budgets and schedules, coordinating cross-functional teams across offices and on-site locations with travel up to 14 days.

The role emphasizes strategic client advisory, robust planning, risk mitigation and ensuring health and safety standards on every project, with opportunities to develop revenue through ongoing contracts and new