Senior production manager
Your Mission
- Lead and work collaboratively with the marketing team members and interface with the agency’s clients
- Develop and maintain relationships with clients and suppliers, ensuring new and innovative ideas are introduced
- Research of event-related products and services
- Acquire costs from suppliers and create cost comparison studies
- Work with and support the creative team to develop and deploy solutions in live event situations.
- Operate the scheduling of the production process with the agency’s tools and methods
- Liaise with venues and carry out site visits as appropriate, reporting back as to suitability for required situations and relevance
- Manage event production with a full reporting, budget consolidation and project closure
Your Profile
- Calm, collected and approachable persona – even under extreme pressure, you’ll have excellent relationship building and organizational skills often working to tight deadlines with strong attention to detail.
- You can multitask projects and be able to write well
- Proactive and work with your own initiative
- Good understanding of the luxury industry
- Six to seven years relevant project management experience and at least 3 years’ experience at agency level
- Educated to degree level/professional qualification or qualified by experience
- Full understanding of the budgeting process
- Good destination knowledge of Switzerland as well as the traditional overseas destinations
- Basic understanding of technical staging, AV and construction process for events
- Basic knowledge of current Health and Safety regulations
- Able to travel for periods of up to 4 weeks and willing to work unsociable hours (inc. weekends) from time to time
- Computer literate in MS tools (Word, Excel & Powerpoint),
- Perfectly Bi-lingual English & French with an additional language (German, Spanish or Italian) to be a plus
Desirables
- Adobe’s creative suite as well as 2D planning (CAD) is a plus