Senior Production Lead

Final date to receive applications: 31 October 2026

Department: Live Production

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Riyadh

The Production Lead is responsible for the day-to-day management of the relevant team members of the wider Production team, planning resourcing needs, booking freelance staff as required, ensuring consistency in all projects, and taking overall responsibility for the delivery of all relevant projects. Whilst there is a focus required on overall team management and future planning, the Senior Production Lead will also perform a “hands on” production role on the bigger and more complex projects.

This is a client facing role and it is expected that the Lead will be able to present project budgets, pitch budgets, programme budgets and other material as necessary to client groups and purchasing teams. The Lead is also expected to adopt a proactive, client-facing role as needed to support client services and business development, facilitating local client acquisition and strengthening existing client relationships.

• Ensure projects are delivered on budget and on-time to the highest possible standards for all projects.
• Manage the workflow and resourcing of projects within the role remit, in combination with the other Directors & resourcing personnel.
• Ensure the production team are working to Imagination standards - profi table business practise, health and safety standards are met, projects commercially sound, appropriate documentation & supplier best practice.
• Help drive constant process and delivery improvements across delivery teams.
• Motivate, guide and support the wider production team and contribute to their development of all team members.
• Create practical working solutions to creative proposals - turning the vision into reality.
• Budgeting of projects and programmes of work, ensuring best value pricing, negotiating with suppliers and making contractor selection.
• Oversee fi nancial control of 3rd party spend, ensuring any other Production Managers plan and deliver all aspects of assigned projects within the agreed timeframe and budget.
• Capable of wholly creating and managing large scale, complex budgets.
• Negotiate favourable costs and terms with all suppliers and freelancers to deliver value to Imagination and its clients. Unrestricted 1
• On project completion, work with the Project Director/Manager to ensure a timely and precise fi nancial reconciliation of all production budgets.
• Specification of technical equipment and manufacturing, in conjunction with Imagination specialist teams (lighting and sound teams, design production etc).
• Collaborating with the creative production team to develop solutions for live event (all streams) situations;
• Scheduling of all trades throughout pre-production and delivery phases.
• Produce overall project time plan with Project Management & Creative and ensure all Imagination processes are adhered to.
• Liaise with venues and carry out site visits as appropriate, reporting back as to suitability for required event mode..
• Developing and maintaining relationships with suppliers and ensuring new and innovative products and services are introduced.
• Manage Health and Safety on all projects in conjunction with the Imagination H&S Manager, including creation of all documentation to UK/appropriate global /regional standards.
• Fulfilling the role in compliance with company policies and procedures, for example (but not limited) ISO documentation, Information Security training.
• Ensure the production team works in compliance within Imagination policies and guidelines.
• Ensure debriefs are undertaken on all projects and results are communicated, best-practice and learnings are shared with the production team.
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