Project, Production Executive - Europe & Middle East (12 Months)

Position Summary:
The Production Executive is responsible for ensuring smooth process, communication and delivery against deadlines, highlighting and proposing mitigations of risks. They are the operational business lead for the project. This role is central to the project, ensuring appropriate paperwork is created, managing and negotiating contracts and communicating with internal and external stakeholders. The ideal candidate will need to be driven, solution-oriented, and have a positive attitude, as this will be a new IP, and there will be many challenges to overcome before the project is launched.

Key Responsibilities:

• Working hand in hand with the NBA’s internal Business Lead to create the business plan for the Project and oversee the operational side of the development phase of this project to help bring it to market.
• Creating and overseeing the Project Deliverables list, timeline and critical milestones, identifying efficiencies and optimisation opportunities across the Project.
• Negotiate best value with suppliers, manage process onboarding (SAP, vendor onboarding), procurement processes, and deal memo creation, and ensure due diligence paperwork is submitted and processed where necessary.
• Check and process invoices against the agreed contracts
• Identify and create optimised workflows across the project, ensuring clear communication to enable all relevant areas to be informed about the project's latest 
• Manage and book logistics for the team and freelancers and co-ordinate logistics with external agencies and partners.
• Create the event plan per event with deadlines, deliverables, and RAG status; all relevant stakeholders who will travel will be accounted for.
• Create a credentials process, ensure health and safety guidelines are followed across the project and manage the delivery of the sustainability policy.
• Working with GP, marketing and communications counterparts to ensure deliverables are on target for delivery
• Ensure the delivery of production paperwork to allow content to be distributed to 3rd parties.
• Manage meeting cadence and create follow-up notes and actions, ensuring there is always a clear agenda in meeting invitations. 
• Create regular reports against KPIs
• Representing the NBA EME team via email and on location at events, recces and also in partner meetings where needed

Education and Experience:

• 12+ years of previous experience as a Production Executive or Project Leader in a similar role across media, events or esports, ideally on a new sport or property
• Demonstrable understanding of live or event production, social media content production and necessary paperwork
• Significant experience contracting high-profile talent and creators
• Experience negotiating supplier and freelance contracts

Skills and Knowledge:

• Strategic thinking and excellent interpersonal / networking skills
• In-depth knowledge of the live and event production, streaming and social best practices
• Excellent PowerPoint and Excel skills, experience using Asana or similar Project Management Software
• Understanding licensing, music licensing and necessary clearances and production paperwork, including health and safety, sustainability, GDPR and working with people under 18
• Strong understanding of the role of production delivery and distribution methods for social media platforms 
• Experience managing relationships with freelancers and agencies and managing complex networks of stakeholders across several markets
• English + a second European language is preferable.