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About the Role

The VML Live team is looking for a Senior Producer to manage events and experiences, acting as a seamless extension of our clients' teams. This role translates creative ideas into actionable project plans and deliverables, ensuring projects stay within budget and schedule parameters. The ideal candidate is a strong project manager who excels at balancing client requests with desired outcomes, taking full ownership of assignments to ensure deadlines, budgets, and objectives are consistently met.

Responsibilities

Act as an extension of the client team, providing expert consultation and guidance on projects.
Deliver multiple, concurrent projects on time and within budget while meeting or exceeding creative expectations.
Collaborate with account, creative, design, and technical teams to define project requirements, timelines, budgets, and logistical needs.
Manage day-to-day production, including detailed schedules, project scope, meetings, deliverables review, and risk identification.
Select, negotiate, and manage outside vendor contracts to best execute the creative vision.
Partner with creatives to ensure the overall look, feel, and vision are achieved, offering tactical support along the way.
Serve as a client-facing leader, driving projects forward and proactively communicating any obstacles.
Maintain active communication across all departments and with clients regarding milestones, deliverables, and due dates.
Build and manage overall project budgets, provide revenue projections, document change requests, and handle budget reconciliations at project close.
Manage and mentor junior-level production staff.

Requirements

Proven experience in project management, specifically within event and experience production.
Strong financial acumen with experience building and managing complex project budgets, revenue projections, and vendor contracts.
Excellent cross-functional collaboration skills, with the ability to work seamlessly alongside creative, account, and technical teams.
Exceptional communication and client-facing skills, with a track record of guiding clients through complex productions.
Experience mentoring, managing, or guiding junior team members.

Skills

Project Management
Event Production
Experience Production
Financial Acumen
Budget Management
Vendor Contract Negotiation
Cross-functional Collaboration
Client-Facing Communication
Mentoring

Location

Kansas City
New York
Detroit
London
São Paulo
Shanghai
Singapore
Sydney

Work Type

Hybrid

Experience Level

Senior

Salary/Compensations

$75,000—$180,000 USD

Benefits

Competitive benefits package

About the Company

VML, part of WPP, is a leading creative company that combines brand experience, customer experience, and commerce, creating connected brands to drive growth.
VML is celebrated for its innovative and human first, award-winning work for blue chip client partners.
VML's global network is powered by 26,000 talented people across 55+ markets.
WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands.
WPP unites cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth.

Equal Opportunity

WPP (VML) is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without regard to characteristics.
We are committed to fostering a culture of respect in which everyone feels they belong and has the same opportunities to progress in their careers.