Senior Event Project Lead

This senior role sits within the UK Experience Studio and holds end-to-end responsibility for delivering complex, creative-led live events - from initial proposal through to delivery and reconciliation. The Senior Event Project Lead acts as the strategic and operational lead across events that involve creative, technical, production, and logistics teams, ensuring alignment with client objectives and excellence in execution. Reporting into the Experience Studio Team Leader, you will lead cross-functional internal teams and external partners, acting as the primary client contact and senior decision-maker across multiple projects and accounts. This is a hybrid role; you will work from our London office a few times a month when needed. Availability to travel internationally is required. What You'll Be Doing: Project & Client Leadership

• Own the full lifecycle of creative event projects, from briefing and proposal through to delivery and post-event reconciliation
• Act as the senior, central point of contact for clients across all creative, technical, and production requirements
• Translate client strategic objectives into clear event recommendations, creative direction, and production solutions
• Build and maintain strong client relationships, proactively identifying opportunities to grow accounts and enhance delivery standards
Creative & Technical Team Leadership
• Lead and coordinate cross-functional project teams spanning content, creative, technical, production, and logistics disciplines
• Demonstrate a strong working understanding of creative and technical roles and capabilities
• Confidently brief, challenge, and guide creative and technical teams at a senior level, ensuring ideas are both creatively strong and technically deliverable
• Work closely with Creative and Production Leads to define the right team structure and skillset for each project
Production & Delivery
• Oversee production coordination across all technical and creative outputs, including AV, video, staging, and show delivery
• Ensure timelines, budgets, and scopes are clearly defined, managed, and delivered against
• Collaborate with operations, logistics, and production leadership to ensure seamless delivery across UK and European teams
• Manage external suppliers and freelancers, ensuring quality, consistency, and value
Stakeholder & Team Collaboration
• Work closely with Account Managers, Operations, Creative, Production, and Logistics teams to ensure joined-up delivery
• Coordinate internal and external stakeholders across multiple geographies, ensuring clear communication and accountability
• Provide clear guidance and solutions when challenges arise, maintaining confidence with both clients and teams, Flexible benefits are tailored to each country and start the day you do. These include health and welfare insurance plans, retirement programs, parental leave, adoption assistance, and wellbeing resources to support you and your immediate family.
• Travel perks: get a choice of deals each week from major travel providers on everything from flights to hotels to cruises and car rentals.
• Develop the skills you want when the time is right for you, with access to over 20,000 courses on our learning platform, leadership courses, and new job openings available to internal candidates first.
• We strive to champion Inclusion in every aspect of our business at Amex GBT. You can connect with colleagues through our global INclusion Groups, centered around common identities or initiatives, to discuss challenges, obstacles, achievements, and drive company awareness and action.
• And much more!
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• Minimum 5 to 10 years' experience in the events industry, with at least 3 years leading creative and technical project teams
• Proven experience delivering complex, strategic events involving integrated creative and production disciplines
• Deep understanding of creative and technical event roles, with the ability to "speak the same language" as creatives, producers, and technical specialists
• Strong experience managing external freelancers and building project teams with the right balance of skills
• Confident working with senior client stakeholders across marketing and communications functions
• Excellent leadership, communication, and decision-making skills, with strong attention to detail
• Comfortable managing multiple projects simultaneously in a fast-paced environment
• Curious, collaborative, and commercially minded, with a passion for innovation and industry best practice
• Well-connected within the events industry, with a strong network of partners and freelancers
• Experience working within a large, international organisation
• Additional European languages are an advantage
• Agency experience (events or marketing/communications) preferred
  
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