Director, Event Operations – Combat Sports

Job Description:

  • Collect and evaluate functional-area project deadlines, milestones, and deliverables
  • Measure project health and summarize progress against rights-holder and functional-area milestones
  • Keep parties on track with project requirements, deadlines, and schedules
  • Identify risks and delays requiring executive escalation
  • Coordinate client-facing meetings, reporting, and project deliverables with partners and internal teams
  • Prepare status reports by gathering, analyzing, and summarizing relevant information
  • Establish and maintain project communication plans
  • Facilitate change requests and communicate schedule, partner, and financial impacts
  • Serve as the central hub of information and support for the Combat Sports team
  • Support strategic growth initiatives from creation through completion
  • Define project concepts, processes, scope, plans, expectations, and team assignments
  • Build, manage, and train teams on project management systems and tools
  • Accelerate cross-functional alignment and improve processes
  • Coach and align teams and leaders to improve efficiency
  • Establish operational accountability through checklists and quality assurance tests
  • Share best practices across event teams
  • Maintain data best practices across systems
  • Monitor project progress and set deadlines
  • Anticipate client-side delays and communicate changes in client needs
  • Solve project issues and anticipate potential problems
  • Occasional domestic travel to On Location offices may be required

Requirements:

  • A bachelor’s degree or master's degree in Event or Project Management
  • Proven experience in event operations, event product building, project management, and project management tools
  • Problem solving, creative solutions, and strong communication
  • Strong planning skills and ability to anticipate possible scenarios and manage different outcomes
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced environment across multiple time zones
  • Ability to prioritize projects and deliverables as demands shift
  • Training experience to distill complex projects into a simple and understandable method
  • Ability to lead project teams of various sizes through completion
  • Strong understanding of formal project management methodologies
  • Experience as a large-scope project manager
  • Ability to complete projects in a timely manner
  • Understanding of project management systems, including Airtable and Smartsheet
  • Excellent PowerPoint capabilities
  • Event management experience
  • Internal and external client relations experience
  • Planning and coordination skills
  • Budget management, forecasting, leadership, organization, problem solving, and strategic thinking skills

Benefits:

  • Short- and long-term incentives, as applicable
  • Growth and developmental opportunities
  • Health care
  • Retirement
  • Vacation and other paid time off
  • Additional offerings
  • Reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities
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