Producer

Summary

Join Allied Global Marketing's Brand Experience team as a Producer! You'll manage and execute experiential events, from festivals to installations. This role focuses on developing your technical, managerial, and leadership skills while producing small to mid-sized projects. You'll build client relationships, manage budgets, and lead teams. Growth opportunities exist to handle larger projects. The position is remote with occasional office visits and travel required. Allied Global Marketing offers a competitive salary and benefits package.

Requirements

• Lead projects from conception through completion
• Ability to own and manage client relationships
• Strong project and time management abilities, prioritization and delegation skills
• Strong written, oral and presentation skills - internally and externally
• Develop, manage and clearly communicate project team's R&Rs (internally and with clients)
• Strong negotiation skills
• Proficient in creating, managing/ tracking and reconciling profitable budgets
• Displays leadership, management and mentorship skills
• Displays diplomacy, sensitivity and a firm hand with clients, partners, vendors as necessary
• Strong (and growing) local and national vendor relationships/networks
• Ability to problem solve and negotiate/resolve conflicts independently
• Demonstrate and implement critical and strategic thinking throughout a project
• Understand client’s KPIs; use to inform thinking / approach/ planning of the project and execution

Responsibilities

• Produce and manage multiple projects simultaneously with limited production support
• Lead day to day project and client management; work with partners and agencies as appropriate
• Manage internal project team with respect to all communication, timeline and deliverables. Internal project team may include AGM departments (design, creative) and outside vendors
• Lead internal and external status calls/meetings: weeklies, site visits/walkthroughs, final pre-event production meetings, post mortem debriefs etc. (and support/develop all agendas etc. as appropriate)
• Clearly and confidently present concepts, strategy and rationale (in person, phone, hangout) to team members and clients
• Manage, delegate to and train direct reports as a given project or team member requires
• Develop, own and maintain client relationships
• Anticipate and overcome obstacles and challenges, including changes in scope, budget, timeline or client’s priorities with ease
• Lead and manage relationships with core project vendors - venue, AV, catering, talent etc
• Participate in ongoing design, fabrication, planning and budgeting discussions, with Design and vendors
• Lead, in coordination with Design, the planning and management of install/load in, activation and strike
• Author and maintain key project documents: timelines, production schedules, ROS, project summary doc
• Review, amend vendor, partner contracts (and client LOAs when needed)
• Participate in and contribute to creative/ brainstorms, work with creatives and team throughout project to ensure concepts are meeting the objectives of the project; vet for feasibility as concepts evolve
• Develop, manage, track and deliver profitable budgets
• Assess logistical, technical, operational and administrative resources required throughout different phases of a project, in coordination with Production Manager as appropriate to book resources
• Recognize potential conflicts/situations in advance, have contingency plans prepared, actively change course when necessary
• Keep KPIs and strategy supporting the project top of mind throughout planning, implementation and activations; work with clients and partner agencies to ensure all metrics are captured
• Proactively secure client approvals necessary to use project content / results on AGM site, case studies, social posts
• Ensure post event/project summary doc and afterlife protocol are being followed/implemented

Preferred Qualifications

• Have a strong ability to work well with others to foster a respectful, positive and productive work environment
• Possess a level of responsibility and practicality while being creatively focusing on innovative solutions

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, short-term and long-term disability, and life insurance
• 401k plan
• Flexible PTO
• 10 company paid holidays