On Board Experiential
Freelance Event Producer - Birmingham and Manchester
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WHO WE ARE
On Board Experiential (OBE) is an award-winning, full-service, experience-led agency that creates meaningful brand experiences worldwide, with office locations in London, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and NYC.
We help brands to cut through the noise, capture consumer attention, and leave lasting impressions that live beyond the shareable, streamable, screamable moment.
We are specialists in creating extraordinary brand events – immersive, engaging, and unrivalled.
The London office is the most recent to open its doors in the OBE family, making us the new kids on the block, but backed by years of experiential experience. Boasting a heavy-hitting portfolio of incredibly active brands and a range of well-established partners, we’re well set for an exciting future.
We work with brands that care. Brands that value meaningful relationships. Brands that are prepared to challenge what’s gone before. Brands that aren’t prepared to settle for OK. Brands that want the competitive advantage. Brands that act.
We are OBE and we’re a team of experiential playmakers.
THE ROLE
A Freelance Event Producer is responsible for creating heightened moments of in-person engagement with impact. This role manages all the elements that come together to create the live delivery aspect of our campaigns in relation to our client work. We are looking to add to our portfolio of Freelance Event Producers, specifically in Birmingham and Manchester.
Key responsibilities of the role could focus on:
- Operational planning
- Operational execution
- Creative thinking
The Freelance Event Producer could work across all aspects of experiential delivery for one or more of our exciting portfolio of clients; a roster which currently includes Nike, NFL, New York Jets, JPMorganChase, OpenAI, and Sky Bet. An excellent multi-tasker and someone who can manage multiple projects; from large-scale campaigns to smaller bespoke activations in a wide range of settings.
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A Freelance Event Producer is responsible for all live experience touch points and will ensure that OBE London provides a service for ‘in real life’ moments that are best in class and deliver to our client’s needs.
On a day-to-day basis, the Freelance Event Producer will work collaboratively and creatively with colleagues and the client in order to deliver high-quality campaigns. Fresh thinking is part of our DNA, to bring disruptive and innovative ideas to all our campaigns. The Freelance Event Producer plays a fundamental role in the process of creative solutions for our client work. This individual is to have/gain quickly the highest level of understanding of their clients’ needs, their brand, and the space they operate in.
RESPONSIBILITIES
The Freelance Event Producer role is varied, and you are responsible for:
Experiential Delivery
- Have a fresh-thinking mindset and one that pushes boundaries
- Have a passion/obsession for our client’s consumers
- Provide innovative and creative solutions in the design and delivery phase of campaigns
- Implement the executional plan in line with client requirements
- Ensure consistency of delivery across live experiences
- Understand your client needs and latest industry developments within the space
- Ensure the safe and successful delivery of your experiential work across all aspects including but not limited to:
- Licensing permits and consultation
- Venue Sourcing & Management
- Branding
- Customer/Event Experience
- Sporting Management
- Production & Logistics
- Technical Production
- Show Management
- Stakeholder Management
- Staffing
- Health & Safety
- Monitor and track your workload against the Critical Path via Monday.com for which you must have (or can quickly build) an excellent working knowledge
- Work with stakeholders and suppliers and create and maintain great relationships
- Stay up to date with OBE London’s suite of event services, pricing model, and competitive advantage
- Ownership, completion, and the full understanding of key event delivery documentation
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Financial Management
- Able to negotiate and collaborate with key suppliers
- Monitoring and finance management on your areas of the live events budgets
- Manage effectively and efficiently allocated budget lines
People Management
- Day-to-day management of your event delivery team
- On the ground empowerment of your delivery team, making sure they are equipped and briefed to deliver to OBE London standards
- Create good working relationships with all teams
- Working collaboratively with the wider team as you each pull together your areas of delivery
- Being an internal knowledge source around all things related to event production
- Working collaboratively with the client and being an extension of their team as required
ABOUT THE PERSON
As a Freelance Event Producer, you:
- Are passionate about brand and experiential delivery in the sport and entertainment space
- Have high-level competence in event production
- Have a proven track record of managing experiences in a variety of settings
- Have a DNA of fresh thinking to create disruptive campaigns
- Have excellent communication skills
- Are highly organized
- Are competent in using agency project tracking and finance platforms
- Have great interpersonal skills
- Are a problem solver and solutions-driven
- Have the vision and the ability to see the big picture
- Can demonstrate your creative approach
- Have a keen eye for detail
- Are calm under pressure and approachable at all times
- Are an aspiring leader to junior members of the team
- Have a minimum of 3 years of experience in an event delivery role
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