Senior Production Manager

Captivate Group; Greater London; Hybride; GBP 55 000 - 70 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Hybrid working

Private healthcare

Life insurance

Cycle to work

Season ticket loan

Annual leave 24–26 days

Résumé du poste

Seen Presents, part of Captivate Group, is seeking a Senior Production Manager to lead complex experiential projects in Shoreditch, London. You will own production from brief to on-site delivery, manage budgets, timelines and supplier relationships, and mentor junior team members in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

The role offers hybrid working with WFH on Mondays and Fridays and in-office Tue–Thu, a salary of £55,000–£70,000, and benefits including private healthcare and a

Qualifications

• Experience delivering projects from £1 million+
• Proven supplier management and on-site delivery
• Leadership and mentorship of junior staff
• Ability to read CAD drawings and floor plans

Responsabilités

• Lead production workflow across projects and ensure delivery to budget and schedule
• Take the lead in client calls regarding production specifics and timelines
• Manage production teams, suppliers, contractors, and freelancers
• Oversee on-site management for events and installations
• Own H&S processes and contracting of specialists when needed
• Maintain production documentation and schedules

Connaissances

Production management

Budgeting

Supplier management

Team leadership

On-site management

CAD drawings

Client liaison

Outils

CAD software

Microsoft Office

Project management software

Description du poste

Job title:Senior Production Manager

Contract Type:Permanent

Location:Shoreditch, London

Reporting into:Senior Production Director

Hybrid/Remote:WFH Monday & Friday. In the office Tuesday-Thursday

Salary:£55,000 - £70,000

About us

Seen Presents is an experiential events agency driven by understanding human emotion and culture. We create online and offline authentic connected live experiences to drive brand resonance and understanding for consumer focused lifestyle and entertainment brands.

We are part of Captivate Group and within this we have three sister agencies; Seen Connects, Seen Studios and Stir.

Overview

• Generally assigned to the larger sized projects within the company to work alongside the Senior Project Managers from brief to on site execution
• The planning, execution, and closing of any production elements of a project from initial brief to execution on site
• Production ownership of each project from a production perspective
• Responsibility for maintaining and development of supplier relationships
• Managing the scope of production through the triple constraints of cost, time, and quality
• Full responsibility of production costs associated to projects and timely processing of suppliers invoices through the project team
• Contracting and managing appropriate external suppliers
• Maintaining high production management standards
• Leadership of the more junior production team members, assisting them with their projects and giving them direction when assisting on your projects (where applicable)
• Mentoring and management of junior members of staff (where applicable)

Technical and Creative

• Possess a senior level of production insight and knowledge to collaborate on creative ideas and treatments with the design team
• Participate in team creative brainstorms advising on production execution solutions
• Come prepared with solutions and ideas to help push and develop production capabilities
• In depth knowledge of print, fabrication, AV, technical advances and nuances to help make our events unique
• In depth knowledge of current H&S guidance including Covid restrictions and the partners to use to advise and assist
• Able to read and interrogate CAD drawings – including floor plans and build drawings
• Knowledge of dimension conversions and international production nuances

Production Management

• Ensures standard agency policies and procedures are kept throughout the account
• Managing production workflow of projects
• Taking the lead in client calls when it comes to discussing production specifics and ensuring all parties are kept up to date with production progress and status
• Working with and managing the production teams, external suppliers, contractors, and freelancers to ensure that deadlines are achieved, and the client brief is met
• On-site management for events, installations, and de-rigs. Including management of 3rd party suppliers/ event staff
• Manage the H&S process in terms of collating supplier information and contracting H&S specialists if needed
• Ownership of production documentation from schedules to RAMs
• Detailed - it's all in the detail - production schedules, trucking schedules, crew schedules, supplier briefs
• Thorough understanding of various event projects and the different processes and procedures involved i.e. live stream, festival, party, summit, conference, pop-up

Commercially Minded

• Cross quote and interrogate supplier quotes
• Read supplier quotes and suggest savings and efficiencies where possible
• Able to help project managers ballpark budgets using historical data and knowledge
• Manage payment terms and cash flow effectively across projects
• Negotiate rebates across core supplier relationships to create effective project costing
• Understand and drive cost savings to continually improve on GP

Team Communication

• Update all stakeholders regularly through clear and concise communication
• Mentor and guide other team members through production knowledge and procedures to help grown the business skillset
• Excellent management of job folders and site files
• Rapid, clear and coherent communication via email and other communication platforms to ensure knowledge is shared with wider teams
• Excellent supplier relationships an able to come armed with existing suppliers

Delivery

• Used to managing a site from load in, live to load out
• Ensure high standards of execution are met and not afraid to work through on-site issues and find solutions in real time
• Proven track record of working through production post an event from storage through to recycling and refuse
• Bonus: open to travel and experience of key international markets such as Cannes Lions, CES, Vidcon, MWC

Key Skills

• Creative head with an understanding of creative experiential events
• Demonstrates excellent communication skills when liaising with clients, suppliers and internally; has the ability to communicate clearly and concisely in person, over the phone and via email, demonstrating diplomacy and good negotiation skills
• Excellent production planning and organising skills with use of standard production documentation and cloud computing
• Experience in line managing and mentoring a junior team
• Passionate, self-motivated with the ability to show initiative, willing to immerse themselves in the brands they work with
• Energetic, self-motivated, consistently proactive and showing initiative; able to manage their own time well
• Mac literate in Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook
• A consistently calm and patient approach, able to remain organised and positive when dealing with multiple requests

Experience required:

• *Experience as a Production Manager delivering projects from £1 million plus
• *Proven supplier management, budget creation assistance & management through to onsite delivery.

*This is an office-based role that will require you to spend time in meetings and briefings, as well as staying in close contact with clients. It can be demanding, but very rewarding! Working hours will be standard office times; however, deadlines and installations may stretch this further.

The Interview Process:

1. If you are shortlisted, we will invite you to join a 30 minute virtual call for us to get to know you better and for us to tell you more about the role and agency, and answer any initial questions.

2. If we think you'd be a great fit, we will then invite you to do a task relevant to the role you've applied for, which we wouldn't expect to take more than one hour.

A final decision will be made following this.

Benefits:

• Salary reflective of your experience and in line with internal benchmarks
• Hybrid working, working from our Shoreditch HQ on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays and from home on Mondays and Fridays.
• Core Hours of 09:00 - 17:30 with the flexibility to start anytime between 08:00 - 10:00 and finish between 17:00 - 19:00.
• Summer Fridays- early finish on Fridays in August
• 24 days of annual leave, increasing to 25 after one year and 26 after two years of service
• 3 emergency days a year
• Sabbatical every five years of service
• Private healthcare cover and life insurance
• Cycle to work scheme and annual season ticket loan available
• Regular team and company socials

and more!

At Presents, we are committed to providing an inclusive environment where everyone feels seen, heard and celebrated. We welcome applications from everyone. If you are invited to an interview, please let us know if there are any reasonable adjustments we can make to best accommodate your needs.