Senior Producer

EC have an exciting opportunity for a seasoned Senior Producer to join our team.

In this role, you'll be joining us at a pivotal point in our journey. As one of the first hires into our New York team, you'll be in at ground level and at the heart of making it happen, leading on the initiation, development and execution of key projects as a primary member of our NY function.

Our Senior Producers are at the heart of making it happen, from conception to execution, managing budgets and projects of all shapes and sizes, in the US and globally. Reporting into the Global Project Director, the Senior Producer works side-by-side with our Client Director and Account Director(s), acting as the key driver and main client contact on projects from scoping stage to reconciliation.

At EC, we blend creative event agency thinking and production company doing to deliver extraordinary events and everlasting experiences. Enabling our clients to deliver lasting experiences that matter, for the people that matter to them.

Our partnerships with our clients underpin everything, because when they dream big, so can we... but it's our amazing team that turn those dreams, into reality.

Our client promise is to make the extraordinary, everlasting. We want to make your time with us extraordinary and everlasting too!

Who are you?

• You're an experienced producer with significant experience within a similar role within event or production agencies, or in an extended freelance capacity in the same sector, with creative conferencing/B2B experience as your primary focus.
• You have a genuine passion for live events with a solid background in corporate experience, ranging from hospitality events to large scale conferences.
• You're a thinker. You possess the ability to look at a clients brief from multiple angles, engage the right stakeholders (internally and externally) and come up with the optimal solution to a challenge.
• You're not afraid to interrogate and ask questions to get under the skin of a brief or opportunity - you know the right questions to ask and when, to enable us to provide the best possible solution.
• You're comfortable with being the primary contact for day to day client communications on your projects as well as being the main project driver.
• You're a collaborative worker, you naturally gravitate to other discipline specialists, acting as the linchpin pulling all elements of a successful event together efficiently and effectively.
• You have extensive creative production, live show and event management knowledge.
• You have a solid understanding of the full lifecycle and process of a project - from pitch and creative concept through to on site delivery - with the ability to manage all of the elements in-between.
• You're a passionate project manager and a strong communicator, both in person and in written content, with excellent attention to detail.
• You don't get phased under pressure, you're the consummate professional. Even when something isn't going quite accordingly to plan, you remain calm and get the situation sorted.
• You're not afraid to push boundaries but also understand there will always needs to be a natural balance between creative and delivery.
• You're comfortable with clients. You are experienced in speaking with them and analysing a brief to ensure that what we produce for them meets, or better still exceeds, their requirements.
• You are comfortable juggling multiple projects at once and can effectively manage your time while ensuring your team and communicated with and understand your workload.
• You're happy to share ideas for new initiatives and ways of working and equally happy to hear other people's ideas.
• You're commercially astute. You push boundaries, whilst keeping the project budget in mind and can weigh up the best solutions to maximise impact for our clients.
• You have a strong black book of suppliers, freelancers and fixers and are confident in managing relationships with them including project briefing, negotiating budgets, and driving timelines.
  You care about the planet and are interested in finding more sustainable ways of doing things.
• You're committed to our 2030 Pledge.

Responsibilities

• Exploring, interpreting and understanding client briefs, working alongside the Account Director/Strategist on proposals and RFQ's from pitch and scoping stage.
• Actively taking part in live pitches alongside our Account Director and wider team.
  Sitting as a core part of the projects team, leading projects of all sizes and complexities
• Providing clients with best practice and cutting edge solutions for their projects, be that live, digital or hybrid.
• Running the project from start to finish, you'll develop and drive the event from the initial concept through to the final reconciliation, making sure KPIs are met and that deliverables stays true to the overarching strategy.
• Main point of contact for client teams during pre-production, production and live phases, acting as the day to day client lead, and owning all communications, calls and meetings.
• Ownership of our project management tools such as project packs, decks and trackers.
• Driver of the main experience design, working closely with creative teams on all design elements as well as ownership of floor plans/layouts, guest journey and programming.
• Leading project teams comprising of Producers, Production Managers, Creatives, Technical Directors and Project Co-Ordinator's as required depending on project needs.
• Line management and/or mentorship of junior members of the Projects team (Producers/Project Co-Ordinator's), supporting and training the team to be the best that they can be in their role and give them the tools they need to move upwards and onwards in their careers.
• Ownership/approver of all project disciplines including production, creative/experiential, live show elements, event management etc.
• Establishing clear communication and review channels, ensuring that the brief, scope and budget are fully understood by everyone involved.
• Project budget management and ownership, ensuring we are delivering to clients' budgets with proven commercial nous, as well as hitting required profit markers on project return.
• Scheduling, progress tracking and post event reporting.
• Actively contributing to the team and the Agency, providing input on process, workflow and structure and always looking to improve efficiencies.
• Bridging the gap between experiential and B2B in your approach, equally at home working in either sector and skilled at bringing the best elements from both into the other, in line with our agency mission.

Team management

• High level overview of your team's work including decks, drawings, plans, proposals and supporting the Project Director to ensure accuracy and value add.
• Ensure all internal processes such as time-sheets and expenses are followed and actioned in a timely fashion.
• Acting as an escalation point on projects as required.
• Collaborating with HR on recruitment, performance cycles and following company HR process.

Line Management responsibility of direct reports

• Regular 1-2-1s and open dialogue, ensuring your reports feel supported and have a clear understanding of their roles, responsibilities and measures of success.
• Following internal people process such as probation reviews and annual appraisals, ensuring timely responses and ensuring engagement in internal surveys.
• A working knowledge of our People processes, ensuring that your direct reports know where to locate them in Trainual and that they understand to come to you with questions.
• Being an active and engaged member of the Line Manager community including attending Line Manger meetings and forums and keeping a close eye on the Line Manager teams channels to ensure you are informed of the latest updates from the people team and cascading messages to your reports.
• Engaging in recruitment for hiring within your team, acting as the Hiring Manger where appropriate and following our standard people processes.
• Leading in onboarding new team members and collaborating with the People Team to ensure learning plans, required training and support structures are in place.
• Taking an active interest in your teams' health and wellbeing, monitoring workload and reaching out to the People team for support where needed.
• Playing an active role in managing any issues with performance or conduct.
• Living our values and leading by example.

Governance & Process

• Working with the Operations Director to ensure health and safety processes are complied with. You'll be a champion for RAMS and HSE and ensure none of it gets dropped when we are busy.

Why EC?

• Our New York team is quite new and you'll be joining the business at an exciting time on our global growth journey. We're looking for someone who will grow with us.
• You'll have opportunities to work with some exceptional people. While EC may not be a recognized name on the New York event scene right now, in London we are one of the best at what we do and we're looking to bring that magic to our New York base.
• We're culture focused and we'll want to integrate you with our UK team so we will fly you to the UK at least twice a year for key social events to ensure you have time to spend time with our team.
• The work we do is as varied as our culture, and provides a real opportunity to work in an environment where creative excellence and world class production values sits at the heart of everything we do. We do not pigeon hole our people based on industry sector or event type specialisms, instead offering an opportunity to work across a hugely varied range of events and projects, both in the US and beyond through our global network.
• We create experiences that matter for the people that matter to our clients, but nothing we do is possible without our people.
• When we ask our people 'what is it you love about working at EC?' the top answer is always the same "the people!"
• We teach each other, we learn from each other and there will always be someone who has your back.
• We make the extraordinary, everlasting.

Your voice. Your growth. Your experience. #YourEC