Executive Producer (Live Events)
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Executive Producer (Live Events)
[Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] ([Employer hidden — sign up to reveal]) is seeking an experienced Executive Producer to lead the agency's most ambitious live events. This on-site, full-time role in London involves strategic leadership, client management, budget oversight, and new business development.
Role Overview
As an experienced, strategic, creative and commercially minded Executive Producer, you'll take overarching responsibility for the conception, leadership and delivery of our most ambitious, high-profile and complex live experiences. Operating at a senior level within the agency, the Executive Producer will set the strategic, creative and delivery standard for projects, act as a trusted strategic partner to clients, and play a key role in shaping how [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] delivers world-class work.
Responsibilities
- Lead [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal]'s largest and most complex events, setting the strategic and creative vision from brief to live delivery.
- Act as a senior strategic partner to clients, advising with confidence and helping them elevate outcomes.
- Oversee event strategy, concept development, content, and production to ensure alignment with client goals and brand standards.
- Guide creative, production and project teams, providing clear direction and challenge to achieve best-in-class experiences.
- Maintain oversight of show flow, speaker management, content strategy and rehearsals, offering senior input where needed.
- Identify opportunities to innovate, elevate production value and improve event formats while managing risk effectively.
- Understand how to build and resource high performing project teams with the right mix of creative, production and technical talent.
- Lead senior level presentations, workshops and key project milestones.
- Hold senior accountability for project budgets, including multimillion pound and multi-currency accounts.
- Drive commercial discipline, balancing creative ambition with profitability.
- Identify strategic opportunities to grow accounts and deepen long-term client relationships.
- Support Heads of Department and Operations in managing supplier strategy, negotiations and partnerships to ensure quality and value.
- Collaborate with finance and senior leadership to forecast revenue, margin and resource needs.
- Lead or support high-value new business pitches with strategic and creative input.
- Shape pitch narratives, budgets and production approaches for key opportunities.
- Build and maintain senior level client and industry relationships that drive long-term growth.
- Represent [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] at industry events and partner engagements.
- Contribute to the evolution of [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal]'s offer by staying ahead of industry trends, technology and audience expectations.
- Invest in individuals, understanding team strengths and development needs, coaching individuals to improve performance (as a line manager and Project Lead).
- Deliver key people milestones, including probation reviews, goal setting, performance management and regular 1:1s.
- Foster a culture of accountability, creativity and continuous improvement.
- Maintain order against [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal]'s established policies e.g. expenses, time off, timesheets
- Establish best practice in executive production, client service and cross-team collaboration.
- Support the development of future leaders through coaching and knowledge sharing.
- Partner with leadership to continuously improve processes and ways of working.
Requirements
- Extensive experience operating at Executive Producer or equivalent senior level within an events, live experience or experiential marketing agency.
- Proven track record of leading large-scale, complex live events and experiential campaigns.
- Strong strategic thinking combined with deep practical knowledge of production, content and delivery.
- Exceptional client-facing skills, with experience managing senior stakeholders and long-term partnerships.
- Advanced budget ownership experience, including large-scale and multi-currency projects.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills.
- Willingness to travel when required.
About You: Confident, credible senior leader who thrives on responsibility and takes pride in delivering exceptional work. Ability to guide, challenge and empower senior teams. Balance big-picture strategic thinking with a strong attention to detail. Passionate about live experiences and constantly seek to push creative and production standards. Lead with integrity, empathy and clarity, inspiring trust from clients and colleagues alike. Calm, decisive and resilient under pressure, with excellent problem-solving capabilities. Proven experience contributing to an agency's growth by supporting new business, mentoring senior team members or evolving internal processes. Commercially savvy, with a strong understanding of agency profitability and growth. Solutions-focused and comfortable making high-impact decisions. Embody [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal]'s values and act as a role model for the wider team.
Benefits
- 27 days holiday (plus UK public holidays).
- Additional days holiday for each year of service (capped at 3)
- Week-day birthdays off
- Charity day
- Pay Day early finish Fridays (15:00)
- Standard Pension Plan
- Fitness membership or gym contribution
- Tech scheme, cycle to work scheme, EV scheme
- Private health care (after 1 years' service)
- Learning and development programmes, including £250 personal learning budget, Sleek Academy, new joiner buddies, and external coaching programme
- Company social events inc. weekly office drinks and annual company offsite
- Opportunity to experience new destinations through Fam Trips
- Opportunity to attend overseas familiarisation trips on behalf of [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] in luxury accommodation. Recent destinations include South Africa, Abu Dhabi and the South of France