Primary Job Purpose:
To deliver location based entertainment projects to customers, on time, to budget and quality through effective resource optimisation and the application of robust project and account management.
The role involves:
- Liaising directly with customers and technical teams at all levels of seniority
- Managing projects and programmes of work in the UK and globally, ranging from small- to large, multi-million dollar scopes
- Delivering projects such as design and installation of software and complex AV to support entertainment initiatives
Responsibilities:
Project Management:
- Delivery of projects
- Identifying and managing dependencies which may affect the success of the project, including 3rd party activities
- Establishing and agreeing baseline project scope, budget and timescales
- Identifying and managing project RAID criteria
- Assigning, controlling, leading and motivating all project resources
- Managing sponsor and other stakeholder expectations through regular reporting, communication and an effective project audit trail
- Scheduling, tracking, and generating invoices for projects.
People Management:
- Matrix managing a highly skilled project team to deliver the project
- Planning and managing the deployment of resources to meet project milestones
- Setting achievable objectives, taking responsibility for decisions and for providing constructive feedback
- Communicating difficult or sensitive information tactfully to colleagues and clients.
Technical Understanding:
- Understand themed entertainment, location based entertainment, mobile app development, and game development
- Maintaining an awareness of new and emerging software and technologies and the potential application on client engagements
- Experience working with project planning tools such as MS Project, Smartsheet, 10,000ft, JIRA, etc.
About You:
- Industry certifications such as PMP, ScrumMaster, PRINCE2, PMI-ACP, etc. preferred
- Experience of having managed themed entertainment projects end to end, with full budget responsibility would be ideal, but construction, engineering, theatrical or shopfitting backgrounds also work well
- Happy to travel, in the UK and on through Europe and beyond to deliver a great experience on site
- Experience working with international teams across borders (both internally and client-side) would be great
- The role is based in Hinckley, Leicestershire. You must have the right to live, work and drive in the UK. For this role you must live within commuting distance of the Holovis office.