Manager, Events Operations & Production - India

Position summary statement:

• Manager Events Operations & Production to cater to national, international, and regional events with operational and execution delivery.
• The individual will require a deep understanding of the industry and vendors to provide driven and innovation-based event solutions.
• Collaborate with department leads, team members, and peers to improve event solutions and ensure customer happiness.
• Collaborate with GSS team on event strategy, planning, budgeting, and presenting event projects.
• The position will plan and complete (but not limited to) event set-up, logistics, on- and off-ground operations & production support for all events.
• High impact of this position is to help with pre-event closures, prioritizing, budgeting.
• Exposure in managing high-end ATL & BTL activities to support various lean-format events and activations for Herbalife customers and distributors.
• Keen ability to adhere to timelines and track all operational data to build event reports for pre-event planning and post-event closures.
• To ensure the related team adheres to delivery timelines and has a logical approach to problem-solving and crisis management during events.
• Have to have in-depth knowledge of production requirements, safety measures, and workflow management to work with international standards and protocols.
• Knowledge of required permissions and licenses to run the event effectively.
• To have in-depth knowledge of all key event solutions and technical aspects to run both physical and virtual events where important.

Detailed responsibilities/duties:

• Overall management of event production and operations.
• To work with budgets, timelines, and data for effective event solutions.
• To ensure all meetings, vendor management, and coordination with related spaces are managed.
• Shall be responsible to manage budgets per event and ensure all requirements are gauged prior to the budgeting process being undertaken.
• Should have good contacts and relationships with various large-scale venues.
• Ability to turn around things in case of crises or changes.
• Risk management and risk mitigation ability during the time of event contingency.
• To conduct site inspections and provide comprehensive solutions and prioritization for the sourcing team well within the sourcing timelines.
• To work with global security and safety teams for event-related safety and crowd management solutions and executions.

Required qualifications:

• Experience with event plotting, layouts, and technical aspects at a high level – preferred knowledge or background with event engineering.
• Understanding the business applications where vital with registration systems, solutions for entries, data management for attendees.
• 10+ years of Event operations and execution experience
• Extensive work experience in the production and operations space for events.
• Proven track record and eagerness to ensure completion of work on-ground.
• Candidate must be willing to travel frequently to support events and conduct venue recce.

Skills:

• Should have proven track record and experience in managing and delivering small, large, and multiple events through the internal team and vendors.
• In-depth knowledge of the event market, solutions, safety, and production requirements is required.

Experience:

• Minimum 10+ years in similar operational and tech management services from an event agency preferred.

Education:

• Graduation