Senior Event Project Manager

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This senior role sits within the Spain Experience Studio and holds end-to-end responsibility for delivering complex creative-led live events from initial proposal through to delivery and reconciliation.

The Senior Event Project Lead acts as the strategic and operational lead across creative technical production and logistics teams ensuring alignment with client objectives and excellence in execution.

Reporting into the Team Leader of Events Team you will coordinate cross-functional internal colleagues involved in the projects and external partners acting as the primary client contact and senior decision-maker across multiple projects and accounts.

What Youll Do on a Typical Day

• Own the full lifecycle of creative event projects from briefing and proposal through to delivery and post-event reconciliation
• Act as the senior central point of contact for clients across all creative technical and production requirements ensuring ideas are both creatively strong and technically deliverable
• Translate client strategic objectives into clear event recommendations creative direction and production solutions
• Build and maintain strong client relationships proactively identifying opportunities to grow accounts and enhance delivery standards

• Oversee production coordination across all technical and creative outputs including AV video staging and show delivery
• Ensure timelines budgets and scopes are clearly defined managed and delivered against
• Manage external suppliers and freelancers ensuring quality consistency and value

• Work closely with Account Managers Operations Creative Production and Logistics teams to ensure joined-up delivery
• Coordinate internal and external stakeholders across multiple geographies ensuring clear communication and accountability
• Provide clear guidance and solutions when challenges arise maintaining confidence with both clients and teams

What Were Looking For

• Minimum 10 years experience in the events industry proving experience delivering complex strategic events involving integrated creative and production disciplines (events or marketing/communications) preferred
• Deep understanding of creative and technical event roles with the ability to speak the same language as creatives producers and technical specialists
• Strong experience managing external freelancers and building project teams with the right balance of skills
• Confident working with senior client stakeholders across marketing and communications functions
• Excellent leadership communication and decision-making skills with strong attention to detail
• Comfortable managing multiple projects simultaneously in a fast-paced environment
• Curious collaborative and commercially minded with a passion for innovation and industry best practice
• Fluent Spanish and English additional European languages are an advantage
• Well-connected within the events industry with a strong network of partners and freelancers

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The #TeamGBT Experience

Work and life: Find your happy medium at Amex GBT.

• Flexible benefits are tailored to each country and start the day you do. These include health and welfare insurance plans retirement programs parental leave adoption assistance and wellbeing resources to support you and your immediate family.

• Travel perks: get a choice of deals each week from major travel providers on everything from flights to hotels to cruises and car rentals.

• Develop the skills you want when the time is right for you with access to over 20000 courses on our learning platform leadership courses and new job openings available to internal candidates first.

• We strive to champion Inclusion in every aspect of our business at Amex GBT. You can connect with colleagues through our global INclusion Groups centered around common identities or initiatives to discuss challenges obstacles achievements and drive company awareness and action.

• And much more!

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