Head of Live Experiences

We have an amazing opportunity to join TMW Live as Head of Live Experiences. TMW Live create a variety of different brand experiences across multiple clients. From launching celebrity autobiographies, to travelling the world promoting the UK's international communications programme, or launching new cars to retailers our team have delivered again and again. Our Live Experiences team are all about providing an exceptional level of service to our clients, delivering outstanding work, building strong relationships, and having as much fun as possible.

As Head of the Live Experience team there are three main areas of management responsibility: experiential, financial and team. We will be looking for you to oversee the strategic development and delivery of experiential projects, take financial management of the department and nurture and develop your team to be the best they can be.

At TMW Unlimited we offer Hybrid working, which for us is a blend of working remotely and in the London or Bristol office. It's all about choosing the best place to be for you, your team, your manager and the business on any given working day.

The Day to Day

• Oversee all aspects of experiential campaigns from research and planning, through to production, implementation and analysis, ensuring client approval throughout.
• Own key client relationships as first point of contact building and maintaining strong relationships with colleagues across the agency.
• Working with the New Business team to identify growth opportunities.
• All client and internal reporting, measurement and evaluation maintaining relevant and accurate files including collation and review of past activities for analysis and case studies.
• Sign-off comprehensive briefing documents for event teams; staff, fulfilment centres & ops risk, assessments, insurances, method statements and other health & safety documents within appropriate authority limits.
• Onsite attendance and co-ordination of events and experiential activities when required.
• Overall responsibility for the financial management of the department.
• Forecast for relevant clients alongside Business Directors / Account Leads.
• Provide sound leadership, line management and direction of the Experiential Team.

Who will you be?

• You’ll have significant experience in a senior role, within Experiential Marketing/ Live Events, within an agency or client-side environment.
• A proven history of delivering multiple successful experiential projects.
• Confidence and Gravitas - Viewed as a trusted partner to senior/executive level clients and directly shapes client business decisions.
• You’ll actively build your own profile within the industry working with New Business to identify appropriate opportunities e.g. editorial comment, event participation, working with industry bodies etc.
• Excellent event management skills, including contractor management, logistics and operations and health & safety.
• A one team approach that enables client and agency partners to work together seamlessly.
• An excellent understanding of big picture finances (income, profit, scope and contract) and commercial implications, able to manage the forecasting and financials of an account.
• Self-starting, motivated and highly personable, with a willingness to roll sleeves up and support the team when required.
• A passionate leader, with the ability to nurture talent and unlock brilliance within the agency.

Benefits

What we give: We believe in the power of a strong culture that puts people at the heart of everything we do. Our guiding principle is simple: Be the best you can be and the rest will follow. You’ll have the chance to learn from passionate, talented colleagues and mentors. Exciting and varied client work with as much opportunity as you can handle. And a hugely sociable team to get to know.

Great benefits package, currently including:

• 25 days holiday (increasing year on year to max 30 days)
• Christmas Closure, Birthday Day and Volunteer Day
• Flexible Bank holidays
• Flexible Hybrid working
• Pension, Life Assurance, Eye Tests, Flu Jabs
• Purchase Holiday
• Cycle to work

We have a calendar of social and charity events throughout the year, there's always something going on. Join us and join in. We make noise. We laugh. We share. We welcome new ideas and new people including you.

Who are TMW Unlimited?

The TMW story is born out of the many successes we’ve created for our clients over the past 30 years, and now encompasses offices in London and Bristol with clients all over the world. We create ideas that move people. We believe that ideas should work everywhere and that brilliant results are what really matter. We combine deep digital and advertising expertise, a strong heritage in CRM and award-winning creativity to make it all happen.

TMW is proudly part of UNLIMITED, a fully integrated agency group with human understanding at its heart. Through our Human Understanding Lab, we uncover behaviour-led insights that power performance and create a genuine business advantage for our clients.

UNLIMITED is part of the Accenture Song family, the world's largest tech-powered creative group.

What we value

Together, we put people first and believe our values make us who we are.

• Give a Damn: We care about each other, our clients and our work. And this shines through everything we do.
• Be Brave: We believe in challenging each other, in standing up, in speaking out. We believe in trying new and difficult things in order to make ourselves and our work better.
• Stay Curious: We actively seek out the new and the unusual, finding inspiration everywhere in the world around us.
• Take Pride: We are open, accepting and inclusive, and we support each other on our journey to reach our true potential. We are actively working to ensure that we as an agency more fully reflect the society around us.

We are an Equal Opportunities employer and welcome applications from all sections of the community. As an equal opportunities workplace, we have a commitment to ensuring equal employment opportunity regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, socio-economic status, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, neuro divergence, disability, gender, gender identity or expression. Whether you’re just getting your foot in the door, or you are an experienced employee whose life circumstances are shifting, we are committed to creating a workplace that reflects the world we want to live in and are therefore flexible to accommodate each individual's needs as best as we can.