Senior Event Project Manager

Amex GBT is a place where colleagues find inspiration in travel as a force for good and – through their work – can make an impact on our industry. We’re here to help our colleagues achieve success and offer an inclusive and collaborative culture where your voice is valued.

This senior role sits within the Spain Experience Studio and holds end-to-end responsibility for delivering complex, creative-led live events — from initial proposal through to delivery and reconciliation.

The Senior Event Project Lead acts as the strategic and operational lead across creative, technical, production, and logistics teams, ensuring alignment with client objectives and excellence in execution.

Reporting into the Team Leader of Events Team, you will coordinate cross-functional internal colleagues involved in the projects and external partners, acting as the primary client contact and senior decision-maker across multiple projects and accounts.

What You’ll Do on a Typical Day

• Own the full lifecycle of creative event projects, from briefing and proposal through to delivery and post-event reconciliation
• Act as the senior, central point of contact for clients across all creative, technical, and production requirements ensuring ideas are both creatively strong and technically deliverable
• Translate client strategic objectives into clear event recommendations, creative direction, and production solutions
• Build and maintain strong client relationships, proactively identifying opportunities to grow accounts and enhance delivery standards

• Oversee production coordination across all technical and creative outputs, including AV, video, staging, and show delivery
• Ensure timelines, budgets, and scopes are clearly defined, managed, and delivered against
• Manage external suppliers and freelancers, ensuring quality, consistency, and value

• Work closely with Account Managers, Operations, Creative, Production, and Logistics teams to ensure joined-up delivery
• Coordinate internal and external stakeholders across multiple geographies, ensuring clear communication and accountability
• Provide clear guidance and solutions when challenges arise, maintaining confidence with both clients and teams

What We´re Looking For

• Minimum 10 years’ experience in the events industry, proving experience delivering complex, strategic events involving integrated creative and production disciplines (events or marketing/communications) preferred
• Deep understanding of creative and technical event roles, with the ability to “speak the same language” as creatives, producers, and technical specialists
• Strong experience managing external freelancers and building project teams with the right balance of skills
• Confident working with senior client stakeholders across marketing and communications functions
• Excellent leadership, communication, and decision-making skills, with strong attention to detail
• Comfortable managing multiple projects simultaneously in a fast-paced environment
• Curious, collaborative, and commercially minded, with a passion for innovation and industry best practice
• Fluent Spanish and English, additional European languages are an advantage
• Well-connected within the events industry, with a strong network of partners and freelancers

Location

Spain

The #TeamGBT Experience

Work and life: Find your happy medium at Amex GBT.

• Flexible benefits are tailored to each country and start the day you do. These include health and welfare insurance plans, retirement programs, parental leave, adoption assistance, and wellbeing resources to support you and your immediate family.

• Travel perks: get a choice of deals each week from major travel providers on everything from flights to hotels to cruises and car rentals.

• Develop the skills you want when the time is right for you, with access to over 20,000 courses on our learning platform, leadership courses, and new job openings available to internal candidates first.

• We strive to champion Inclusion in every aspect of our business at Amex GBT. You can connect with colleagues through our global INclusion Groups, centered around common identities or initiatives, to discuss challenges, obstacles, achievements, and drive company awareness and action.

• And much more!

All applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to age, sex, gender (and characteristics related to sex and gender), pregnancy (and related medical conditions), race, color, citizenship, religion, disability, or any other class or characteristic protected by law.

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