Creative Project Manager (Business Experience Manager)

Businessfourzero, a Heidrick & Struggles Company, helps businesses change faster than the world around them. Our approach is people-driven change. We believe it doesn’t happen any other way and we are totally focused on creating step-change & impact.

We specialise in 5 different areas:

• Purpose driven businesses (not businesses with a purpose statement)
• Strategy powered by the conviction of leaders (not buried in lifeless decks)
• Leadership teams & coalitions creating collective momentum (not brilliant individuals radiating collective dysfunction)
• Engagement - we produce events and experiences that create deep & sustained commitment (not a momentary sugar rush)
• Culture - inclusion, empowerment and agility unleashed in every team, fast (not endless analysis and interventions that deliver no commercial impact)

The Opportunity:

In the next phase of our growth, we are hiring a Business Experience Manager (what can be described as a 'Creative Project Manager') to join us in London. The Business Experience Manager (most-suited to an earlier career i.e. approx 3-4 years' experience) is the 'glue' that sits at the heart of our project teams, helping to deliver exceptional event experiences via stellar project management and meticulous co-ordination whilst standing in our Clients’ shoes so that our work delivers impact for them.

The Role:

• The ‘glue’ that holds the project team together, providing day-to-day project management and coordination activity for project teams so that our projects’ happen both on time, with real commercial focus to ensure we also deliver real impact, as well as on budget
• Organises and co-ordinates workshops and events that deliver the right experiences for client outcomes, working alongside an Events’ Producer for large scale events
• Holds strong, trusted, relationships both internally and client-side
• Supports key strategic internal initiatives

About You:

• Project management skills and capability, plus experience of overseeing budgets
• Insight skills to get to the nub of a problem
• Fiercely organised, able to multi-task
• Tactical, logistical and analytical with a strategic mindset
• Self-starter in approach and can-do attitude
• Keeps calm under pressure
• Experience of event production a plus
• Creative and able to think quickly on your feet
• A team player who enjoys finding the joy together with others
• MS Office 365 skills with Photoshop/InDesign experience an advantage

Our Benefits:

Doing work this impactful, at the level we play is exhilarating – it’s also demanding and requires every ounce of ingenuity, ambition and effort. With this in mind, we’re committed to support our people to succeed. Our benefits are continually being tweaked but include a medical/ dental cover policy; up to a 20% discretionary annual bonus based on both company and personal performance; subscription to the CALM App; unlimited annual leave and lots more - so please ask one of the team about this.

Every role in B4z is open to applications from all members of society. We believe that a truly supercharged team needs people from all walks of life and we welcome people from any race, religion or belief, ethnic origin, physical ability, socio-economic background or status, age, nationality or citizenship, family structure, martial, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other difference that makes you, you. We are committed to conscious inclusion that (we hope) creates an ethos of connection, belonging and shared purpose. We open our doors to others who share our motivations.