Role: Creative Producer (Events Management industry)

Location: Home with Travel (Some travel to Milton Keynes)

Our client are a leading global agency who specialise in providing innovative event management solutions for global clients. They have enjoyed exponential growth over recent years and continue to grow organically. They are recruiting for a Creative Producer to create winning propositions through the development and presentation of new proposals and pitches for a range of clients and prospects.

You will provide creativity, inspiration and innovation to a range of projects and clients to ensure clients are getting the best creative ideas that enhance their events and deliver against their objectives; work with a multi skilled and talented team to bring out their best ideas and ensure they have fully thought-out strategies for all clients and projects and add creativity to existing clients and projects so we continuously raise the bar, delight the customer and generate revenue.

Responsibilities:

Manage a Proposal manager and strive to grow and develop the team for the future.
Lead the creative execution of pitch proposals, working alongside our Content Producer.
Support and challenge the team with their creativity, efficiency, productivity and profitability.
Retain awareness of market trends and new innovations through proactively attending relevant educational seminars and trade shows etc.
Research and negotiation with all suppliers, relationship building and establishing them as a preferred partner where appropriate.
Ongoing appraisal of preferred supplier partnerships, working with Head of Events / Operations Manager / Project Directors to resolve any issues with unsatisfactory performance.
Critical thinking and debate at initial brainstorm to ascertain commercial viability of proposal and agree next best steps with Head of Events and Project Director.
Project development and programme design to ensure our ideas meet the brief, objectives and budget of the client.
Work with Proposal Manager to create costings, clearly identifying the gross margins at the time of submitting the proposal / pitch.
Meet client and proposal deadlines.
Work to ensure any elements of projects you are leading / supporting in, are fed into overall budget to ensure we are tracking against budget
Review of the final programme / ideas against brief.
Proofreading of own and other team members' work.
Communication with 3rd party suppliers and clients in a professional and always appropriate manner.
Present and sell in the solution(s) to the client as and when required.
Formally present, as and when required, at client or other meetings.
Liaise with worldwide offices to forge relationships and deals with suppliers to gain profit / service benefits
Attend supplier presentations to enhance product knowledge.

Skills Required:

Extensive experience with creative ideation and delivering creative mechanics pre-production and on-site (within the Events sector)
Customer service experience with at least 5 years leading and managing senior stakeholder clients.
Project experience, including responsibility for meeting deadlines, reporting on progress, leading or assisting project teams and on-site delivery.
Subject matter expert with experience in - innovation, creative ideation, graphic design, digital, technology and production, destinations and event management.Extensive experience in building design led proposals in Powepoint, Canva or similar, to create proposal responses.
Commercial awareness with previous financial responsibility, with evidence of managing costs and / or monitoring/creating budgets