GES - Global Experience Specialists

About the Role Are you a hands-on Business Systems Manager ready to deliver the future of IT solutions across a dynamic global organisation? Join the EMEA IT Applications team at Global Experience Specialists (GES) and play a leading role in driving the transformation of our business systems landscape. You'll work closely with business leaders to identify, define, and deliver smart, scalable, and high-impact technical solutions - all while supporting some of the most exciting live experiences across the region. This role is ideal for a hands-on technical leader with a strong background in systems, technical solution delivery, and continuous improvement - someone who thrives in a high-tempo, business-critical environment. Key Responsibilities Shape the Systems Landscape: Develop a deep understanding of our business systems and define technical improvement plans that meet current and future business needs. Partner for Change: Work closely with business stakeholders to translate their needs into technical solutions that enhance productivity, scalability, and automation. Deliver Best-in-Class Solutions: Provide clear guidance on technical capabilities, aligning solutions with business value and simplifying complexity wherever possible. Technical Project Leadership: Lead & own system implementations, development, and integrations end-to-end, ensuring strong governance, quality, and business alignment. Drive Innovation: Own and evolve a product roadmap that incorporates automation and AI capabilities as key pillars for transformation. Lifecycle & Data Strategy: Plan application lifecycle management (ALM), ensuring proactive upgrades, exits, and robust data governance and security across all systems. Commercial: Oversee suppliers and partners to ensure delivery meets contractual and operational requirements. Proof of Concepts & Research: Lead on PoC initiatives that demonstrate innovation and the art of the possible using emerging technologies Documentation: Develop key IT artefacts to enable teams to create, test, deploy & support applications efficiently, including system architecture, processes, and integration. Quality & Compliance: Ensure all system developments undergo rigorous QA, regression testing, and align with frameworks such as GDPR, SOX, and ITIL. What We're Looking For Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field. Experience: 10+ years in Business Systems or Technical Solutions roles. 5+ years in technical leadership or software delivery management. Proven success managing proprietary and custom-built systems. Technical Skills: System administration, configuration, and integration experience. API integrations & iPaaS tools (e.g., AIS, Zapier). Familiarity with Azure, AWS, or GCP. Strong SQL/query language capabilities. Experience with BI platforms (e.g., Power BI), and data warehousing. Azure App Services & DevOps automation tools. Delivery Tools: Skilled in Azure DevOps, Jira, or for backlog and delivery management. Soft Skills: Strong leadership, communication, problem-solving, and stakeholder engagement skills.

This is all about YOU. You love bringing collaborative 3D creative designs and presentations to life, have a keen eye for detail, passionate about graphic design innovation, and looking for a place to grow and test your mettle as part of a truly collaborative global team of creatives and help us create inspiring experiences for our clients. You relish the idea of working with creative teams to incorporate 3D ideation into presentations, adding your own 32D creative touch to a project, delivering practical graphic design thinking that adds value and elegance to a concept and exceeds client expectations.Restless curiosity and infectious enthusiasm for the industry, a problem-solving 3D designer that is adaptable, practical, and passionate about enhancing graphic elegance that enhances a concept right through to graphic specification and production That is a mouthful but if you "get" this, then you know what we want. Who are we? We are the creators and innovators of creative experiences within GES, a global, integrated creative agency that drives the creative vision for our clients and how their brands are perceived in the world. Today people may know us as a global event, exhibit, or convention production house but that is only half of our story. Our vision is fearless creativity that redefines the person and brand interaction. With some of the industry's best talent on our team, we strive to create beautiful work that has a purpose across multiple channels including physical and digital engagements. We believe in attracting and nurturing world class talent with a focus on diversity, community, and career development across a multidisciplinary team. What will you do? You will Work in partnership with Creative Directors and other senior creative teams to develop 3D solutions and presentations that are considered "best in class" bringing ideas to reality in a timely manner. Support senior creatives to bring 3D ideation to various graphic media with flair and consistency whilst understanding constraints and opportunities within client brand guidelines Responsible for design and production of large, medium, and small format graphics as well as concept submission documents and other graphic design content Demonstrate strong team-working skills and the ability to support other collaborative partnerships across the global creative network and maintain tight deadlines on projects Maintain an effective working relationship with all company departments, with particular emphasis on meeting project obligations and commitments What you'll need • Minimum of 2 years' 3D graphic experience gained within the exhibition, events, experiential or similar industry sector • Ability to work in a fast-paced environment as a collaborative team player supporting senior creatives and work under your own initiative when required. • Strong ability to grasp ideas to produce inspiring 3D solutions to a broad range of design mediums and opportunities • Work with 3D creatives to supply artwork for inclusion 3D renderings • Ability to manage the everyday details of multiple projects and deliver the highest quality output that meets budget constraints. • Detail orientated, patient, considerate and flexible Development and Benefits At GES we look to equip you with the tools required for you to progress in your career with us. With plenty of internal opportunities to move within the business and the backing of line managers progression is key to the business growing. This is a full-time role offering a competitive salary, dependent on experience. We operate a reward strategy based on our team members receiving a salary that best reflects their experience and skill level.