Operations Project Manager - Interim Contract

Recruiting now! Fantastic opportunity to lead the team tasked with planning, managing and delivering the foremost annual event for professionals engaged in the creation, management and delivery of entertainment and news content worldwide.

THE ORGANISATION
This organisation's annual event attracts more than 55,000 attendees from 150 countries around the world, exhibiting more than 1,700 of the world's key technology suppliers and showcasing a conference with over 400 speakers.

THE ROLE
Reporting to the Head of Projects, you will lead a newly formed Project Operations Team to deliver this event, embedding project management knowledge in the team and ensuring an excellent level of service is delivered within budget.

Responsibilities
You will manage all event operations projects, ensuring that operations systems and processes efficiently record all aspects of every project. You will manage the operational budget, providing regular updates to the Head of Projects, and keep clear and up to date status reports for the senior management team. Event risk assessment and health and safety also fall within your remit.

The Operations Project Manager will have specific responsibility for pushing out the company's project management methodology company-wide, not only ensuring effective and efficient event delivery but meeting stakeholder expectations of driving value for money.

YOU
You will be an experienced Operations Project Manager with proven planning and project management skills. You'll have excellent communications skills and be able to lead and manage a team of people, including contractors, on a day to day basis. You will be experienced in budget management and reporting and be an enthusiastic advocate of project management methodology that makes systems and processes more efficient.

And, of course, you'll have an up to date health and safety qualification (IOSH).

This is great opportunity for an experienced, enthusiastic Operations Project Manager with a background in Events, ready to hit the ground running, to join this dynamic team.

If your experience and ambitions match the key requirements and responsibilities as listed above, please reflect these in your CV and click "Apply" now.