Executive Event Producer: Lead High-Impact Programs

American Express Global Business Travel; Tallahassee (FL); On-site; USD 67,000 - 124,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible benefits

Travel perks

Learning & development access

Job summary

American Express Global Business Travel is seeking a Senior Event Producer to lead programs for an Experience Studio team dedicated to a single enterprise client. You will own the plan, budget, and production for each program and serve as the daily contact for stakeholders.

The role requires eight+ years in corporate meetings, budget ownership, proficiency with Cvent, and the ability to manage multi-day events with audiences 500+ and budgets over $1 million.

Qualifications

• Eight+ years producing corporate meetings and events.
• Experience on a dedicated account team under a client SOW.
• Portfolio includes multi-day executive programs with audiences 500+ and budgets above $1M.
• Production fluency: able to brief and direct staging, audiovisual, and content partners, read a production schedule, and make the call when the show and the budget pull apart.
• Budget ownership with a track record of accurate forecasts, clean reconciliations, and change control the client accepts.
• Strong command of/Cvent and enterprise project and collaboration tools, and comfort working inside a client owned environment.
• Executive presence: able to run a planning meeting with senior stakeholders, deliver a hard update, and hold a recommendation under pressure.
• The ability to lead a program team you do not manage, setting clear expectations and giving direct feedback on the work.
• Detailed written communication: status reports, decision logs, and client updates that hold up when read back months later.
• Preferred: CMP or CMM; experience running concurrent programs at different stages; time at a production company, hotel, or destination management company that provides the supplier's view of the agency.

Responsibilities

• Lead programs as producer of record from brief to close.
• Collaborate with client producers to meet same standards.
• Be daily contact for stakeholders with planning cadences and status.
• Direct creative and production; brief partners and own the run of show.
• Own program budgets from estimates to reconciliation.
• Direct event managers and attendees experience coordinators; coordinate with Studio Ops.
• Maintain master timelines, milestones, decision logs in project tools.
• Work with sourcing on venue/suppliers; ensure contracts are met onsite.
• Lead onsite delivery with staffing, pre-con, huddles, and escalation.
• Partner with Studio Ops on staffing, scope, risk; flag scope creep.

Skills

Event production

Budget management

Client leadership

Cvent

Stakeholder management

Production coordination

Education

CMP

CMM

Tools

Cvent

Job description

American Express Global Business Travel is seeking a Senior Event Producer to lead programs for an Experience Studio team dedicated to a single enterprise client. You will own the plan, budget, and production for each program and serve as the daily contact for stakeholders.

The role requires eight+ years in corporate meetings, budget ownership, proficiency with Cvent, and the ability to manage multi-day events with audiences 500+ and budgets over $1 million.