Creative Experiential Production Manager at The Planet Group

Location: Remote
Pay Rate: $120/hour 
Duration: 7 Months 

Planet Interactive's Global hospitality client has a HOT need for a REMOTE Creative Producer (Experiential) with 12+ years experience overseeing creative development, editorial sourcing, supply acquisition for experiences within experiential travel or marketing development or related fields for a 7 month assignment with possible extension. 

Creative Producer (Experiential) Responsibilities: 

• Manage the development, planning, production and execution of supply acquisition projects, including the development and tracking of timelines, schedules, milestones estimates, budgets and action items across multiple inputs.
• Execute on the end-to-end sourcing and acquisition of experience supply to ensure successful delivery aligned with the intended vision, scope, timeline and resources for each project.
• Talent & Supply Sourcing - with direction, source supply and potentially conduct early outreach with experience hosts.
• Ensure vendor-sourced leads meet Supply definition and quality guidelines.
• Facilitate effective communication and collaboration across team members and stakeholders - including senior leadership - providing regular project updates and proactively flagging any issues or blockers.
• Lead and manage supply acquisition projects, moving forward agendas, meeting notes, and team milestones.
• Create and maintain accurate project documentation, including project briefs, schedules, budgets, estimates, resource plans, and status updates.
• Develop and internally circulate weekly project updates tracking project goals and progress.
• Produce clear and compelling visual communications and presentations, pitches, and updates to senior leadership, cross-functional teams, and external partners.
• Work in partnership to coordinate and manage sourcing, acquisition and production professionals to support in the acquisition of experiences as needed.
• Support training methods, questions and needs of vendors to integrate into Airbnb’s data tracking systems.
• Create acquisition and sales guidebooks to maintain on-brand quality acquisition methods and criteria.

Creative Producer (Experiential) Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience in fields including entertainment design, creative advertising and production, event production, experiential marketing, editorial travel, hospitality creative, or related disciplines
• Creative, curatorial eye, and a knack for trendspotting. Proven sharp sense for identifying experiences that represent the current cultural pulse of a city.
• Experience with management of outside vendors to source and acquire experiential products.
• Ability to coordinate, create and drive Schedules, Budgets, scope documents, deliverables and production support needs for projects.
• Excellent project management, mentorship, and interpersonal skills, with a track record of inspiring diverse, cross functional project teams to achieve their best work.
• Understanding of the digital sourcing data processes, and with prior experience collaborating with data sourcing and research, mobile app design, product and interfacing with engineering teams
• Excellent presentation and communication skills, with an ability to convey complex concepts in compelling terms to audiences at all levels, and articulate creative solutions to complex challenges
• Ability to direct and ensure consistently high-quality technical deliverables of a sourcing and production team, including project budgets, resource plans, goal tracking, dashboard creation and tracking, and CRM database management.
• Incredible organization, prioritization, and decision-making skills with an ability to set priorities, problem-solve, and work in a dynamic, rapidly changing environment with high-level direction
• Creativity and innovation: Ability to think creatively and participate in the generation of unique ideas for novel experiential entertainment and hosted travel concepts
• Familiarity with common project management and documentation tools, with the ability to quickly adapt to new technologies and processes

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