Senior Event Producer & Project Manager (Johannesburg)

Location: Johannesburg (Johannesburg North)
Work model: Hybrid (3 days in-office, 2 days at home). Need to be able to legally work in SA to be considered.
Salary: R45 000 – R65 000 CTC (depending on level of experience)

Why you’d want to work here..

• High flexibility
• The office closes from 12 December to 12 January
• Year-end surprises are a thing
• 10% commission if you bring in new business
• Open, honest culture with zero tolerance for gossip or toxicity
• A team that works hard, has fun together and celebrates its wins
• An entrepreneurial mindset is encouraged

About our client:
A female-led strategic experience and impact agency is looking for a Senior Event Producer & Project Manager to join their team. They create large-scale conferences and exhibitions, C-suite experiences, corporate events, brand activations and purpose-driven projects. This is a senior, hands-on role for a true operator: someone who takes an event from first brief to final reconciliation and owns every step in between.

What the job involves:

• Turning client briefs and business objectives into compelling event concepts
• Shaping the full experience: narrative, guest journey, programme, staging, branding and production
• Writing proposals, creative concepts and client presentations
• Briefing the internal creative studio clearly and reviewing what comes back
• Running several complex events at once, at different stages of planning and delivery
• Building project plans, workback schedules, critical paths and milestones
• Managing tasks, approvals and progress in ClickUp
• Being the main point of contact for senior corporate clients
• Leading client meetings and producing contact reports, action lists and progress updates
• Building and managing event budgets, margins and forecasts
• Sourcing, negotiating and managing suppliers, quotes, contracts and payments
• Coordinating venues, AV, staging, catering, registration, speakers and logistics
• Writing run sheets, production schedules and contingency plans
• Leading production meetings, rehearsals and onsite teams
• Owning onsite delivery, from final checks before guests arrive through to breakdown
• Closing out every project with reconciliations, debriefs and post-event reports

What you need to be considered:

• 10 to 12+ years’ experience in events, experiential, corporate event production or a related agency environment
• A track record of personally leading complex, high-value events from concept to completion. Account management or coordination experience alone won’t cut it.
• Strong creative conceptualisation skills
• Solid project management skills and a working knowledge of formal methodology
• Advanced use of project management platforms
• Strong budgeting, forecasting, cost control and reconciliation skills
• A sound understanding of technical event production and onsite operations
• Excellent written communication: proposals, briefs, contact reports and post-event reports
• Confidence with senior clients and complex stakeholder relationships
• Exceptional attention to detail
• Strong Excel and PowerPoint skills
• A portfolio of at least three events you personally led, showing your role, the scale and complexity, your budget responsibility and your creative involvement. No portfolio, no response.
• Shortlisted candidates will complete a live practical assessment

Bonus points if you:

• Have ClickUp experience
• Come from a strong experiential agency, event production agency, conference organiser or corporate events team
• Bring energy, humour and a positive, can-do attitude to the team

Posted on 09 Nov 16:09, Closing date 8 Jan