You’re a highly experienced project lead with a proven track record of delivering complex, high-value experiences for ambitious brands. You know how to hold the full picture: from client confidence and team leadership to budget control; from brief through to onsite execution and reconciliation.

You’ll be responsible for leading the day-to-day delivery of often large-scale projects, making sure the work is executed exceptionally. You’ll set the rhythm for the project team, keep clients informed and confident, and make sure that everyone knows what they are doing, what matters most, and run a tight - and happy - ship on your projects.

You’ll work closely with the Head of Projects and all departments, moving comfortably between detailed project delivery and senior-level updates for the wider business. You’re a problem solver who can make decisions with confidence, but always works collaboratively.

You’ll also play an important role in mentoring and developing more junior members of the team, helping them build strong delivery habits and showing them what great project leadership looks like.

Project Delivery

• Lead the end-to-end delivery of assigned projects, from initial scoping and project set-up through to live delivery, debrief and final reconciliation
• Build and maintain clear project plans, timelines, action trackers, decision logs, risk registers and escalation routes appropriate to the scale and complexity of the project
• Support the Head of Projects in setting project-specific processes and ways of working, making sure each project has the right structure from the outset
• Act as the senior point of control across project delivery, ensuring all departments are aligned
• Identify risks, blockers, team capacity issues and quality concerns early, and bring clear options or recommendations for how they should be managed
• Lead onsite delivery at senior level, ensuring the team is fully briefed, R&R’s are clear, issues are escalated appropriately and the client experience feels calm and controlled
• Lead post-project close-out, ensuring reconciliations and all debriefs are completed properly and in good time

Creative, Production and Content Integration

• Work closely with all departments to ensure the project ambition is understood, protected and delivered practically
• Translate creative and strategic intent into a clear delivery approach, identifying any gaps between idea, budget, timeline, technical feasibility and onsite reality
• Maintain quality control across the project, ensuring the final delivery reflects the agreed creative direction, client objectives and Wonder standards

Client and Stakeholder Management

• Build and maintain strong, trusted delivery relationships with clients,
• Work closely with Client Services to understand the wider account context, client priorities, sensitivities and growth opportunities.
• Contribute to strategic client conversations by bringing practical delivery insight, commercial awareness and operational clarity.
• Support key RFPs, pitches and new business opportunities 

Commercial and Financial Accountability

• Own the commercial health of assigned projects, including budget control, fee profitability, cashflow, purchasing, billing, forecasting and reconciliation
• Build, review and manage project budgets in line with agreed scope, client expectations and Wonder’s commercial targets
• Track actual and forecast spend throughout the project lifecycle, identifying pressure points early and agreeing corrective action where required
• Use Paprika and agreed Wonder finance processes accurately and consistently    
• Lead timely partial reconciliations during the project and full reconciliation at project close

Line Management and Resourcing

• Lead project teams with clarity, pace and empathy, ensuring roles, responsibilities, actions and escalation routes are understood
• Line manage assigned junior or mid-level team members, holding regular 1:1s and supporting development, feedback and appraisal processes in partnership with the Head of Projects and People & Culture
• Maintain a live view of project resourcing, including team capacity, holiday clashes, onsite commitments, workload peaks, capability gaps and freelance requirements
• Flag resourcing gaps, overload or capability concerns to the Head of Projects with clear context and suggested solutions
  
• Support recruitment and freelancer identification where required, including chemistry meetings, recommendations and feedback on team fit
• Contribute to a high-performing Projects team by sharing knowledge, improving ways of working and setting the standard for project leadership

• You’ll have extensive experience of the project management of events - ideally in the B2B market, and most specifically in large scale conference and exhibitions space
• A thorough understanding of the creative and production process
• Extensive budgeting and commercial experience in Project Management
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously
• Ability to grasp complex concepts quickly and pay attention to minute detail.
• Excellent negotiating and organisation skills
• Experience working with leading brands  
• Experience of managing teams
• Strong experience of GDPR and application of this in the Project environment
• Pitch experience (desirable)

Wonder is a specialist, multi-award-winning creative events agency, focused on reimagining business experiences. We help businesses think differently about how they connect with the people that matter to them, using people-first insights to create more human B2B and B2E experiences. 

We work with some of the world’s most forward-thinking and progressive brands, including Cursor, Expedia, Google, Nubank, Semrush, Stripe, Visa and Vodafone - helping them create the next generation of human-focused campaigns and experiences. 

Headquartered in London and operating globally, our work spans all business touchpoints, from live events to experience strategy, sponsorship activation, and employee engagement with an approach that’s powered by possibility. 

We wonder what’s possible… then we make it reality.

In 2025, we became part of culture-first collective Common Interest - an entertainment and communications group focused on building brands in popular culture. A connected ecosystem of best in class businesses that, by design, have distinct and complementary specialisms; Alongside sister agencies Amplify and Seed, Common Interest is already home to companies including global brand transformation and growth consultancy TwentyFirstCenturyBrand (21CB), design, motion and innovation studio Otherway and CultureLab, the group’s first-of-its-kind AI cultural intelligence platform.