THE ROLE 

On Location has been appointed as the Official Hospitality Provider of the FIFA World Cup 26™! The Vice President, Event Production will be responsible for ensuring that all deliverables for their group are fulfilled at a high standard and on time.  The Vice President will be a capable manager with team and events know-how, sound financial practices, project planning, team building skills, and mentoring abilities.   

The ideal candidate must have extensive event marketing experience, internal team management experience, client service communication, be well organized, a self-starter, able to work with a variety of people with varying work styles, can prioritize workload, and have a drive to continue working until the job is done.  This position reports to Sr. Vice President, Event Production. 

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS & RESPONSIBILITIES 

• Lead a team of event production individuals to deliver the best product for the client and the work group 

• Strategic ability to conceive, develop and implement programs that build client brand and provide a foundation to drive client business growth 

• Develop and maintain an effective organization through selection, training, compensation, motivation, and performance management 

• Manage internal and external staff on execution and delivery of programs 

• Is highly proficient in budgeting and tracking of multi-million-dollar accounts and ensure fiscal management of each meets agency standards 

• Possess and can develop key vendor/partners related to our business so we are delivering the best product and pricing for our clients 

• Ability to lead large scale live events with multiple agencies, vendor, and client involvement 

• Responsible for overseeing procurement with assigned Legal team, to secure MSAs for this and future business 

• Able to position yourself as a leader within the team and company to help lead growth and development of organization 

• Will lead the collaboration of production, accounts, creative, digital, travel, and other company divisions to ensure the best production product possible. 

• Can apply best practices and learnings from previous projects to elevate performance level 

• Will create accountability practices within company 

REQUIREMENTS 

• Minimum 10 years event marketing, production, and team management experience 

• Production of live events, tours, and fabrication of event elements necessary 

• Bachelor’s degree in marketing and/or equivalent experience in related field 

• Motivational leadership, inspiring team to deliver top performance against assigned business 

• Excellent interpersonal skills – will contribute culturally to the agency 

• Must possess strong working relationships with multiple national and local vendors to fulfill a wide variety of fabrication and event production needs for the company. 

• Strong management skills; prior internal staff management of a large group and multiple direct reports. 

• Can manage the production group in the office and field. Able to help integrate that team across multiple offices and divisions. 

• Strong planning and organizational skills to effectively manage numerous programs and resources simultaneously- Microsoft Project or similar planning tool experience preferred 

• Sound decision-making and problem-solving skills based in agency, client, and industry knowledge 

• Excellent verbal and written communications skills.  Must be able to communicate across all groups in the company and clients. 

• A thoroughly developed knowledge of our industry, products, and services, as well as those of our competitors and clients 

• Willing and able to work nonstandard work hours, weekends and travel as required 

• Must have professional appearance and persona with a strong work ethic and a positive, can-do attitude 

• Microsoft Office proficient (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook) 

• A willingness to travel frequently (up to 75%) and work flexible hours 

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