Production Manager

Job Title: Production Manager

Location: London and Brackley – Hybrid (plus travel as required)

We are Strata!

Imagine being part of a fast and exciting brand experience agency whose clients include specialists in new technology, creators of some of the most stunning electric vehicles on the planet, financial institutions, and global leaders in pharmaceutical solutions. As an agency, we elevate these brands and make them heard through immersive and memorable virtual and face 2 face experiences.

As a people-first business, we encourage ambition, support and reward. We’re always listening and open to your ideas, just as we do with our clients.

Our name? It’s Strata, an agency on a mission to be the very best. This means we always want to hear from the very best creative and intelligent souls who genuinely believe that every moment matters.

Job Overview

To plan, co-ordinate and deliver during pre-production, production and post-production technical facilities for live, virtual and hybrid event projects (including conferences, meetings, launches, webcasts, roadshows, exhibitions, brand activations and stakeholder events) for clients represented by Strata. Our events are delivered globally, as well as across the UK - so travel is part of the role.

Key responsibilities include (but are not limited to)

· Preparation of technical collateral for pitches/proposals and specify technical solutions for new projects

· Liaison with client services and production teams to ensure cohesion

· Technical specification of appropriate staging, technology, and digital solutions for projects

· Budget management for technical production costs using Procim system

· Supplier liaison, negotiation and management to ensure efficiency, quality, value and cohesion within the production

· Crew liaison and management including logistics

· Management of project CAD plan

· Venue liaison – technical facilities

· Preparation of technical production schedules

· Health & Safety and CDM preparation – RAMS

· Advise producers on show software and virtual platforms with technical implications

· Ensure Quality Management of the project – ISO9001

· On-site technical management to ensure smooth, timely, high quality event delivery

· Ensure projects are reconciled and information is passed in a timely fashion to accounts

· Contribute to debriefs for the purposes of review and continual improvement

· To remain up to date with new technology and its business applications

· To remain up to date with staging design trends, materials and their business applications

· To remain up to date with H and S practice and legislation

· To remain up to date with the internal equipment inventory and facilities