Brandfuel
Production Manager / Senior Production Manager
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About us
Brandfuel is a multi-award-winning creative experiential agency. Through careful strategy and planning, we specialise in the sustainable design and delivery of leadership summits, conferences, exhibitions, experiential activations and online broadcasts.
We are specialists in working with high-growth companies and have worked with an enviable list of companies. Tech giants like Ericsson, Google, YouTube & Meta and business services companies such as BlackRock, Zurich and Bloomberg.
Our clients are the change-makers who are challenging the way things are and reimagining how they could be. Through creating memorable and collaborative experiences for them, we positively promote their brand and reputation in this increasingly challenging world. We are also committed to making sustainability, diversity and inclusion part of everything we do.
We are looking for a Production Manager / Senior Production Manager - Live events
Main purpose
To join the Technical Production team as a Production Manager or Senior Production Manager (dependent on experience), taking the lead on production elements on medium to large-sized projects and leading more junior team members on larger projects.
Key skills & experience
- Build relationships with key supply chain and manage effectively
- Have experience in managing production elements for budgets up to £1m
- Knowledge of Vectorworks or AutoCAD software preferable
- Management of rigging, power, networking and other technical services
- Google Workspace
- Experience within a creative event delivery agency
- IOSH managing safely qualification preferable
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Main duties
- Working closely with internal creative and project management teams to advise & provide feedback on design direction with production techniques in mind.
- Provide accurate budgets and work with our trusted supply chain in pre-production to ensure methodology matches both design intent and budget.
- Coordinate and manage multi-supplier sites, including ensuring all build follows onsite plans, resolving onsite supplier queries
- Ensuring all H&S documentation is completed to an appropriate standard, and ensuring timelines are adhered to in a safe manner.
- Manage and mentor junior members of the team.
Availability
Must be available from September 2026, and the role will require extensive onsite time in Jan/Feb/Mar (circa 40 days)
Benefits
- 20 days annual leave on top of Bank Holidays, with additional days given over the Christmas period that are non-contractual
- After 3 months
- Company pension scheme matching 5% contributions
- After 4 months
- Annual bonus (non-contractual)
- Life assurance
- Independent financial adviser
- Language lessons
- Tax-efficient cycle to work benefit
- Season ticket loan
- Additional optional health benefits (Health insurance, dental & health cashback)
- Employee Assistance Programme
- After 2 years - Electric car scheme and enhanced maternity pay
- After 4 years - additional 5 days of holiday
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We aim to build an inclusive culture by identifying, acquiring, developing and retaining a highly skilled and high-performing workforce that reflects the diverse global marketplace in which we operate, regardless of gender, ethnicity, religious preference, sexual orientation, physical attributes, or educational background. Due to the nature of our work, we undertake DBS checks for all staff and credit checks for selected roles. We have company policies for Equal Opportunities, DBS checks, the Recruitment of Ex-offenders, and Slavery and Human Trafficking, which you can request if you are successful in gaining an interview.
First interviews will be online, with those who are invited to interview being asked to present a brief presentation about themselves.
If you are interested in this role, please send your CV and cover letter with your salary expectation to bfproduction@brandfuel.co.uk by 17th August 2026. Please no recruitment agencies.
We aim to respond to all applications, where possible.
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