Responsibilities

• Serve as primary Production team contact throughout the event planning cycle with both internal and external teams, including client teams.
• Plan and lead meetings related to race planning, logistics, budget, branding, incident communications and race operations.
• Partner closely with Account team to effectively work with the clients to plan and implement strategies.
• For assigned events, oversee all production related communications, documentation, and required deliverables required by the project in a timely, detailed, efficient, professional, and courteous manner, always maintaining the highest standards.
• Utilize established SOPs, templates, and playbooks. Produce detailed project-wide, operational, and logistical plans and procedures, including but not limited to staff plans, detailed R&R grids, workbacks timelines, production timelines, load in and strike schedules, accessibility issues, on-site communications, weather preparedness and contingency planning.
• Create, manage and track detailed event production and operational timeline(s).
• Reconcile all production budgets and prepare post event analysis of production.
• Maintain best practices that meet client needs and provide continual improvement to our operations.
• Serve as a primary point of contact on-site at events in a decision-making capacity. Also serve in a support role, such as leading unified command on-site. Work on-site at events to ensure operational excellence.
• Collaborate with OBE Leadership and senior level production team, Account, Creative, Strategy, Technology, and others as applicable, on project, departmental, and companywide details.

Requirements

• BA/BS in marketing, business administration, communications, or related field.
• 8 – 10 years of direct experience in producing/managing large experiential programs and events including corporate meetings, live event activations, preferably with at least 5 years in an running or multidiscipline event production.
• Large event, big budget activations experience, working with large fabricators and multiple vendors for complex activations.
• Very strong client/customer service experience and focus.
• Must have an extremely strong and diverse experience base that directly applies to this multi-faceted, high demand position.
• Experience with Microsoft 365, SharePoint, Smartsheet, and/or other project management tools
• Exceptional and proven organizational, planning, managerial and client interfacing skills.
• Superior management, leadership, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Excellent ability to manage internal and external crews and staff.
• Ability to multi-task, manage priorities and commitments, and meet deadlines.

Benefits

• medical/dental/vision insurance
• employer paid basic life and personal accident insurance
• Annual Profit Sharing/Bonus Plan based on the company’s performance and your individual performance
• 401(k)
• Healthcare Flexible Spending Account
• Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account
• PTO
• STD/LTD insurance benefits