Senior Planning & Coordination Manager, Combat

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About the role

  • Planning manager coordinating cross-functional hospitality and VIP experience projects for UFC, WWE, Zuffa Boxing and TKO. Driving timelines, risks, reporting and strategic growth initiatives.

Responsibilities

  • Collect and evaluate functional-area project deadlines, milestones and deliverables
  • Measure project health and summarize progress against rights-holder and functional-area milestones
  • Ensure parties remain on track with project requirements, deadlines and schedules
  • Identify risks or delays requiring focus or escalation to executive leadership
  • 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 and ensure execution
  • Facilitate change requests and communicate schedule, partner and financial impacts
  • Serve as the central hub of information and support for the team
  • Support strategic growth initiatives from creation to completion with internal stakeholders and external clients
  • Define project concepts, processes, expectations, scope, plans and task assignments
  • Build, manage and train teams on project management systems and tools
  • Accelerate cross-team alignment, integrate functions and improve processes
  • Coach and align teams and leaders to improve efficiency
  • Establish operational accountability through checklists and quality assurance tests
  • Maintain data best practices across systems
  • Monitor project progress and set deadlines
  • Anticipate client-side delays and communicate changing client needs
  • Anticipate and solve project issues

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 and ability 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
  • Accountability, adaptability, budget management, clear communication, creativity, decisiveness, delegation, forecasting, leadership, management, organization, problem solving, strategic thinking and stress management

Benefits

  • Short- and long-term incentives, as applicable
  • Growth and developmental opportunities
  • Health care
  • Retirement
  • Vacation and other paid time off
  • Additional offerings
  • Occasional domestic travel to On Location offices could be required

Job title

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Senior

Salary

$67,500 - $90,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

RemoteUnited States

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