Head of Venues (Production)

Head of Venues (Production)

On Event Production Co. are looking for an experienced and enthusiastic production focussed individual to join the team as Head of Venues.   This is an exciting new senior role to the business, with a core focus on managing, maintaining and developing our venue production services and venues portfolio.   Applicants should be passionate about deliving exceptional production services within a venue environment and have a broad knowledge of corporate production delivery to include set, staging and AV technology.

You must possess excellent client services skills as you will be working alongside our highly valued venue clients, ensuring we are providing the best service at all times.  You should have experience of managing and developing relationships and opportunities with new venues,  producing pitch winning tender responses and negotiating competitive commercial arrangements.   You will have a flexible and efficient approach to work as well as being able to demonstrate excellent leadership skills to manage and motivate on-site teams.

Main job responsibilities:

• Client liason and account management for existing venue partnerships

• Leadership of venue service teams

• New venue business development

• Development of venue services products & packages

• Negotiation of commerical arrangements & contractual obligations

• Client & internal feedback

• Industry networking & relationship development

We are looking for people with:

• Previous experience in managing production services for a portfolio of UK based venues 

• Previous experience of account management and business development 

• Previous experience in team management & leadership.

• A passion for production and creating exceptional experiences

• Confident and experienced in managing new oportunities and delivering winning presentations and proposals

• Good overall knowledge of production to include sound, lighting, video, stage systems for corporate events.

• Excellent organisational and administration skills.

• Competent user of IT systems including Microsoft Office.

• Excellent interpersonal skills.

• Valid driving licence.

Employee benefits include:
• Extremely Competitive salary
• Company pension scheme
• Company bonus scheme
• Training & progression opportunities.

Location:

This role is based at our Castle Donington, Derby office with optional hybrid working on completion of induction and systems training.  By the very nature of the role and the events industry, you will be required to travel and work evening and weekends when required.

As an equal opportunities employer, On Event Production Co. is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.

We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join our team.

Please note, the successful applicant will be asked to provide 2 references and complete a basic DBS check (this is a contractual requirement for working with some of our clients).