Strategic Project Director, Sponsorship Experiences

Strategic Project Management  

• Work collaboratively with colleagues, vendors, and clients to provide a creatively inspired and seamlessly delivered sponsor experience. 
• Manage the overall project(s) as it relates to sponsorship experiences including client, vendor and sponsor communications and meeting management, key milestone and timeline management, team roles and responsibilities, team-work flow, onsite team management and post event debrief process
• Develop, manage and seek client approval for contingency plans related to our projects scope of work.
• Guide the team in making and implementing data-driven and informed recommendations - seek to continuously improve delivery and efficiency of the team through analysis of client and attendee feedback and data gathered during and post-event.   
• Lead in the development of processes across the teams to ensure best practices are shared and team collaboration occurs across accounts . 

Client Management  

• Develop and maintain strategic client relationships including understanding their business objectives and how we can support them in achieving these.
• Offer strategic advice to the client to support the delivery of exceptional sponsor experiences.
• Act as the day-to-day strategic contact for the client, be a step ahead of the client, managing and responding to their requests in a proactive and timely manner.  
• Establish a regular cadence of connections with client stakeholders. Utilize these connections to grow the client relationship and demonstrate the value of Nteractive by proactively sharing key updates, managing client and team feedback, identifying and rectifying challenges before they occur and cascading constructive feedback where appropriate to project teams.

Team Leadership & Management  

• Be the go-to for team guidance on all things sponsorship experiences and educate and guide the team on the Nteractive approach to sponsorships. 
• Manage team resourcing for the project(s) and contribute to resourcing across all clients - looking across roles and working with peers and your HOD to ensure we are resourced correctly to deliver the right experience as well as providing team growth and development opportunities.
• Be accountable for setting high standards in all areas of event delivery, ensure the team are delivering sponsors needs to the highest standard, enhancing the reputation of Nteractive as a quality partner, contributing to goals of achieving repeat business and growth.

Sponsor Experience Management 

• Track key milestones, highlighting any potential challenges and being proactive in solving for challenges ahead of time. 
• Where required directly manage key areas of the projects, including sponsor point of contact, client workstream lead support and team coverage.
• Review and sign off key project elements including but not limited to, ERC, sponsor readiness materials, sponsor communications plans and templates, floor plans, booth selection process, onsite schedules, MPO development, support for EAC requirements etc where needed, financial planning / budget management for clients etc. 
• Ensure project-based decisions are in line with creating a consistent, positive and memorable sponsor and client experience.  

Finance & Budget Management  

• Contribute to the development of the clients timely and accurate budgets to ensure effective delivery of the event – e.g. supporting the team on MPO budget management or COGs management. 
• Identify issues and address these in a timely manner with colleagues or clients, as appropriate, with the aim of delivering outstanding value for money for the client.  

In this role you should have the following experience.  

• Significant proven experience (at least 6 years) at a senior level of project managing and delivering multiple large-scale events (8,000 – 12,000 attendees) to deadlines and budget.  
• A track record of managing sponsor relationships for large scale events
• Direct line manager and team leadership experience
• A track record of delivering high quality customer focused services, and a full understanding of what is required to consistently deliver at such a level.  
• Excellent financial and business acumen with experience of budget and contract management.    
• Competence owning and managing project budgets of $10million-$15million.  
• Experience working with and briefing teams large scale complex projects.  
• Robust commercial awareness including understanding of margins and business profitability.  
• Proven Excel skills at advanced level, confident in Microsoft PowerPoint and sound ICT skills in general.  

In this role you should exude the following competencies:  

• Strong inter-personal skills to develop effective relationships with suppliers, clients and colleagues.    
• Ability to lead, manage, mentor and train others to develop their talents and skills.  
• Ability to work collaboratively and respect the views of others.   
• Ability to work at pace and under pressure in order to manage multiple concurrent projects.    

• Highly motivated and passionate with a can-do approach to finding solutions and delivering customer service.   
• Excellent, persuasive communicator both written and verbally.   
• Highly organized with good attention to detail. 

We are Experience Architects with an ambition to cultivate client trust and brand value.

We are a people first agency where our passion and boundless collaboration combine to deliver excellence for our clients. We are commercially aware and drive value for our clients and Nteractive by seeking efficiencies and cost effectiveness without compromising the creative vision. We are forward thinking and constantly pushing ahead for ourselves and our clients.  

We are specialists in the technology sector. We create incredible live brand experiences – the sort that really make a difference. Experiential marketing campaigns, product launches, conferences, incentive programmes, exhibitions, VIP experiences, store launches, hospitality programmes, digital campaigns, brand films, internal communications programmes and much more.