About This Role
This Project Director role is for an experienced leader to enhance an already talented team, working efficiently across multiple large-scale projects for consumer-focused lifestyle and entertainment brands. The position involves strategic input, impeccable project management, financial oversight, and team development within an experiential events agency.
Responsibilities
- Work closely with the Head of Live and Client Services Director to understand the business vision and direction
- Support business vision through client relationship and delivery goals
- Attend business strategy meetings
- Support recruitment for new roles across the business
- Input into wider business goals and planning including marketing, training, social presence, insights and research
- Faultlessly project manage large-scale projects, including budget creation, critical paths, status documents, and production schedules
- Create detailed and methodical budgets, project plans, team plans, and schedules without assistance
- Suggest new documents and streamlined ways of working for clients and team members
- Impeccably manage multiple projects within one timeframe
- Advise on more junior members of staff’s projects and project documentation
- Confidently own and collaborate on pitch documents, including facilitating research, strategy write-ups, team plans, contingency procedures, ways of working, and considerations
- Lead on creative pitching
- Lead client and team meetings with clear agendas and action points
- Communicate effectively across the board from the team to suppliers, clients, and senior management
- Cultivate positive relationships across the team, suppliers, and clients to ensure productive ways of working and positive working environments
- Come armed with solutions and suggestions and lead the way in proactively solving problems, outlining tasks, and delegating
- Navigate difficult conversations with ease and strategically brainstorm solutions
- Maintain full visibility over the team’s annual calendar of works and resource for full scope
- Forecast and plan ahead
- Effectively communicate relevant account information to superiors
- Be the main point of contact for all account briefings, attending F2F briefings and delegating where appropriate
- Oversee team’s financial accountability including project estimating’s, budgets, reconciles, and invoicing
- Own pipeline forecast and broad financial picture for relevant accounts
- Manage and maintain accounts for pillar clients, with a strategic approach to client retention
- Have awareness of longer-term account requirements and proactively initiate projects and account opportunities
