About The Park
The Park is an award-winning experiential agency, founded in London in 2018 by three friends with eclectic backgrounds in client-side marketing, events, advertising, psychology, TV, PR, and sponsorship. The Sydney office launched in 2021.
At its core, The Park is an experiential agency, but we have a broad view of what experiential marketing is. Simply, it’s doing something not just saying something. We’re on a mission to redefine the cultural and commercial power of experiential marketing.
We work with brands that stand for something (the likes of lululemon, Pinterest, and Asics) and help them prove it to their customers and internal stakeholders, by creating Brand ProofTM.
Our work spans physical experiences, digital experiences, social media, content, design, employee experience, and much more. And we like our people to be as varied as the work we create.
Working at The Park
Our culture is everything to us and it’s underpinned by three founding values:
Diversity Makes The World Better- We think the most creative, fun and interesting environments are the ones that have the most varied types of people from the broadest array of backgrounds with the most eclectic views.
Simplicity Is Clarity- we are committed to using no buzzwords and never hiding behind complexity. If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it.
There’s Always A Way- it’s the attitude we take to everything, there’s a way to make anything happen.
Job Description: Senior Project Manager / Producer
Overview
Reporting into the Operations Director, the Senior Project Manager / Producer is a dynamic all rounder who is equally as comfortable with clients as they are delivering brilliant production.
This is a key role in the agency and the suitable candidate is responsible for delivering best in class live experiences for The Park clients.
A brilliant operator with excellent client management and production skills, the successful candidate will be able to seamlessly run live events, experiential campaigns, product launches and brand & sponsorship activations to a world class standard. In addition, a solid understanding of content production is important.
Ensuring that clients are happy, projects are on time, on budget, and delivered safely and seamlessly every single time, this a role for an ambitious and highly organised individual looking to lead by example and make their mark at a leading experiential agency.
Key Responsibilities
General
- Uphold the standards and values of The Park
- Live and breathe experiential marketing and events
- Must be resilient, proactive and solutions driven – always one step ahead and the ‘go to’ production lead within the agency
- Have a passion for being on-site
- Love being with clients and building relationships
The Work
- Manage client relationships and oversee projects
- Produce events and activations
- Lead high level planning, client and production meetings
- Have a ‘little black book’ of suppliers and partners in the industry across A/V, fabrication, print, tech, AI, branding, catering, staffing and security partners
- Implement best in class live experience and content focused campaigns and projects across multiple clients
- Play a key role in the implementation of sustainability initiatives across the agency
- Lead collaboration with cross-agency departments – creative and design on ideation, proposals, and implementation of projects
- Lead on event concepts and proposals and budgets for client presentation
- Oversee and lead the team on all aspects of project management and production including
o Scoping and feasibility studies
o Pre-Production
o Production / execution including on-site for load in, live and load out
o Post event (wrap ups and insights)
- Attend domestic and international events
- Create and review relevant documentation created by the team to adhere to agency and legal OH&S standards
- Actively source and plan sites including the development of floor plans for approval
- Oversee technical and stage direction, develop set designs, and agree themes, styling and dressing prior to live events
- Source, negotiate and liaise with talent where required
- Nurture and grow relationships with suppliers and key agency partners
- Create and present client presentations with excellent visual appearance
- Look for new creative partners, suppliers, and technology
- Ensure all projects adhere to necessary regulations (privacy, H&S etc.)
Clients
- Understand clients’ businesses and develop solid relationships
- Nurture and grow relationships with clients in order to meet agency revenue KPIs
- Keep up to date with what’s going on in our industry, share this knowledge with the team, and proactively engage Clients
Commercial
- Understand and implement The Park finance process on all projects
- Lead on the creation of production budgets and create estimates
- Put in place SOW agreements on key production projects for clients and partners/suppliers
- Ensure the team are delivering on time and reporting time sheets
- Ensure there is detailed management of project budgets and finances with appropriate margins (as agreed with the agency LT)
- Identify new revenue opportunities
- Drive the best rates with suppliers and partners on behalf of the agency
New Business and Marketing
- Work on new business pitches alongside the wider agency team
- Actively seek new opportunities for the agency with new and existing clients
- Drive personal and agency profile within the industry trade press
- Attend industry events
People & Culture
- Manage and mentor team members (Junior Experiential Producer) and freelancers as well as manage upwards to Operations Director
- Inspire the team and implement a culture of high-performance
- Contribute to agency culture including cultural initiatives
Reviews
We carry out career reviews in January and July every year. At these sessions you will set objectives for progress in your role and general career development through on the job learning, training and mentoring.
Location
Our office is located in Shoreditch, close to Old Street Station. We work in a hybrid way, driven by our Purposeful Work approach; the full team come into the office on Mondays (planning, team meeting and resource focus), Wednesdays (collaboration and creativity focus), and Fridays (culture focus), with everyone free to work from where they want on Tuesdays and Thursdays (deep work focus). There will, however, be times where live projects or events require extra days in the office or on-site.
Holiday Allowance
Everyone at The Park has twenty-five days a year to go on holiday and you are encouraged to take all of them. If you don’t, you can carry up to five days over to the following year. If we shut the Agency over the Christmas and New Year period you can have those days off without using any of your twenty-five days allocation.
You are, of course, also entitled to days off in lieu for any days you have to work over a weekend if you’re working on an event.
Referral Bonus
At The Park we actively encourage entrepreneurship so any new business that you bring in will see you receive a 10% bonus of any fee generated from that new business lead.
The Parklife Grant
We want to support and encourage all our team to connect to culture and to get out and about. As such there's £50 available each month to buy a ticket to something. This could be a gig, an exhibition, a play, a trip to the cinema, anything really.
Volunteering
We’re very lucky to work in a creative industry, on exciting projects, with good people. There are lots of people in this world whose situations are not as lucky as ours. So, we think it is very important to give back to society and the local community. We want to encourage people to volunteer for good causes in various forms. To help do that we have one day a year where the company gives up it’s time to help a cause and we will also provide two additional paid days leave for anyone at The Park to take part in volunteering.
Employee Benefits
We have a range of policies that we feel are important:
Life assurance – just in case anything happens to you, all our employees are insured. In the event of the worst happening, their loved ones and nominated beneficiaries would receive an immediate tax-free cash benefit of 4x salary.
Critical illness – the unfortunate incidence of very serious illnesses like cancer are prevalent in modern society. Should any member of our team suffer from something this serious we would not want them to have to also be worried about their immediate financial position. We are all insured for a sum of £50,000 paid on diagnosis, tax free, in order to relieve this financial stress that such an event could create.
Pension - One day we will all retire! In order to make this a ‘happy’ event we all need to save. We have teamed up with Royal London to create a bespoke arrangement.
Employee Assistance Programme- to support the culture of The Park we provide a free health and wellbeing service as part of your employment with us. It's called Help@Hand and is delivered by Unum. You and your family (partner and children) can access a range of confidential services via the Help@hand app:
- Remote GPs: Video consultations that last up to 20 minutes. Aiming to get you seen by UK-based doctors anytime, day or night.
- Mental health support: Access to assigned therapists when it’s needed most, typically delivered via video consultation.
- Physiotherapy: A network of physiotherapists with treatment plans usually delivered via video consultation.
- Medical second opinions: Access to UK-based private consultants following a final diagnosis.
- Life, money and wellbeing support: Advice on a range of life and work issues, including financial, legal and family concerns, plus a confidential 24/7 helpline.