Events Production Manager, APJ

Amazon is seeking a senior events and productions leader to manage teams and operations across Sydney Singapore and Japan. The APJ Event Production team delivers on-campus off-campus and dedicated-venue events virtual experiences studio productions and post-production services powering some of Amazons highest-profile internal experiences reaching audiences in the thousands across the Asia-Pacific and Japan region. This is your opportunity to lead that team and define how production operates across three countries.

As APJ Event Productions Manager you will people leader and operations owner. You will manage a distributed team of engineers producers and coordinators across three countries translating customer briefs into delivered events and productions while keeping budgets vendors and schedules on track. Your day will shift between strategic planning (long term operational excellence capacity forecasting regional labour demand new venue builds) tactical delivery (unblocking a live event resolving a vendor delay) and people management (coaching a direct report). You will be the single point of accountability for production quality across the region.

Key job responsibilities
- Lead develop and grow a team of event productions professionals across three countries owning performance hiring and career development.
- Own the regional production budget and vendor relationships keeping delivery on time and on budget.
- Plan and manage regional scheduling and capacity across competing event demands.
- Drive operational standards and continuous improvement across all production services in the region.
- Act as the escalation point for production issues and build strong partnerships with internal stakeholders and customers.
- Travel across the region for events people management and leadership meetings (approx 20% of your time).

- 5 years of people management experience leading production or technical teams
- Experience managing teams across multiple locations within complex large enterprise.
- Extensive Experience in event productions broadcast or live media environments.
- Experience managing budgets and vendor relationships

- Bachelors degree or equivalent or 6 years of professional experience in event production or media operations
- Experience in leading teams within a complex corporate environment.
- Knowledge of livestreaming and event technologies studio workflows and post-production pipelines
- CSEP CMP or other relevant event or production industry certification

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