Senior Event Producer - Maternity Cover

Job Title: Senior Event Producer - Maternity Cover
Location: London

We are Strata!

Imagine being part of a fast-paced and exciting brand experience agency whose clients include global leaders in the automotive, technology, finance and pharmaceutical industries. As an agency we elevate audience experiences, through creative, communications, content, production and logistics, to deliver on our client objectives.

As a people-first business, we encourage ambition, support and reward. We’re always listening and open to your ideas, just as we do with our clients.

Our name? It’s Strata, an agency on a mission to be the very best. This means we always want to hear from creative and intelligent souls who genuinely believe that every moment matters.

Job Overview

We’re seeking two experienced individuals to become trusted members of the event production team (live/hybrid/virtual experiences) to cover maternity leave. Applicants should have worked previously as an agency or freelance senior producer, and be adept in end-to-end delivery of full service experience design and production. This includes concept creation and pitch presentation to production planning and delivering with specialist partners for global brands. Projects include internal and external communications campaigns, global leadership conferences, award shows, new product launches and experiential marketing activations for clients across sectors.

Personality

You are a leader and mentor, who has the experience and confidence to capture hearts and minds. You thrive in challenging environments that require the collaboration of cross-departmental expertise - creative, technical, logistics and digital. You know how to create compelling strategic propositions for clients and commercial wins for the agency. You understand the importance of brand awareness, a clear purpose and measurable objectives. You empathise with audiences, putting their thoughts, feelings and actions at the heart of your experience design. You appreciate the power of simplicity and clear process as you discover, define, develop and deliver moments that matter.

Key Responsibilities

Brief, Proposals and Pitches:

• To work in partnership with account leads and HoD’s to write the agency brief, develop a strategic proposition, create a compelling pitch proposal and present to our clients

• Shape creative, experiences, agenda’s and content to meet client and audience objectives with our specialist departments in creative, technical, logistics and delegate management

• Appreciate the value of brand understanding and partnership, working with clients and stakeholders to distil messages through event identities, onscreen graphics (PPT), video, animation, infographics and print

Event Production:

• To successfully lead full service teams, delivering diverse projects, across client industries

• Create experiences that maximise impact, leverage departmental and third party partner expertise and deliver ROI for clients and the agency

• Develop compelling visual identities and narratives with creative directors, communications assets with designers, visualisers, artworkers and graphics programmers and tell stories through film, using storyboarders, writers, editors and animators

• Partner with our logistics teams to refine location/venue briefs, delegate managers to co-ordinate seamless registration and technical department to achieve stand out stage, set, environment production

• Ability to transfer skills and experience into the production of conferences, exhibitions, awards, launches, brand events and communications

• Management of schedules, briefings, rehearsals and shows

• To liaise with other departments within Strata to ensure that schedules and values are met

• Liaising with suppliers – briefing, negotiating and ensuring deadlines and budgets are met

• Appreciation and understanding of agency partners from technical to digital, exhibitions to print, fabrication to furniture

• To remain up-to-date with new technology, content trends, design and creative trends and their business applications

Project management:

• Efficient ways of working, managing actions, projects timeline and commercials through communication, planning and teamwork

• Helping the wider delivery team develop an understanding of the client’s perspective to ensure a client-focussed culture

• Pride in project processes, maintaining ISO9001 compliance and are streamlined ways of working to achieve optimum effectiveness and efficiency

• Ownership of the budget, ensuring that projects deliver to scope, against agreed targets for turnover and gross margin

• Mentor project co-ordinators to ensure day to day project administration is correctly managed and skills developed

• Planning and management of resources for operational delivery of projects ensuring service levels are maintained to the highest standards

Reconciliation and post event:

• Ensure projects are reconciled and information is passed in a timely fashion to accounts, for billing

• Manage internal and external debriefs for the purposes of review and continual improvement

• Help to develop client relationships to encourage organic growth of accounts

• Knowledge sharing: as part of your mentoring role, encourage information and learnings are shared amongst the team from a technical, content and venue perspective

• Manage the post event administrative process, including working with the Marketing function to create a case study

Employee Benefits

·       25 days annual leave, plus usual Bank Holidays

·       Health Insurance *

·       Workplace pension scheme

·       Death in service scheme

·       Cycle to work scheme

·       Regular social events

*On completion of 6 months’ probation period

Our Principles

We are a people-first brand experience agency with a set of core principles that guide our every action by measuring:

A win for the client
Client success is at the forefront of everything we do. We measure our success by the impact we make for our clients. We strive to exceed your expectations, delivering moments that matter with results that matter.

A win for the company
We believe in long-term partnerships and sustainable growth. When your business prospers, so does ours. Our commitment to excellence and innovation means we’re always ahead of the curve, offering you the best in brand experiences.

A win for the team
Our team is the lifeblood of our agency. We celebrate diversity, promote collaboration, and foster an inclusive culture where every team member feels valued and empowered. When our team thrives, their passion and dedication is reflected in everything we deliver.

A win for you
Whether you’re engaging us for your events, already fostering a career at Strata, or considering one, our goal is to create a win for you. We’re dedicated to providing our employees with an enriching workplace that supports their growth and well-being. For our clients, a win means achieving your objectives and making your brand shine.

A win for the planet
We are committed to making environmentally responsible choices in our work. We recognise our responsibility to minimise our impact on the planet and contribute to a sustainable future. From eco-friendly event practices to conscious resource management, we aim to create events that are a win for the environment.