OVERVIEW OF ROLE

The Executive Producer Queensland is the senior production leader for KOJO in the Queensland market, responsible for the strategic oversight, commercial performance and delivery excellence of all sports presentation and major event activity across the state.

This role leads and manages a team of four Producers and holds senior accountability for KOJO’s sports presentation services across Queensland, including all major events delivered within the Stadium Queensland portfolio.

While Producers are responsible for the day-to-day running of productions, the Executive Producer provides strategic direction, creative leadership, financial oversight and senior stakeholder management to ensure all projects are delivered to the highest standard.

You will champion and evolve the KOJO Sport philosophy, including the FanX model and strategy, ensuring it is consistently embedded across all Queensland shows and applied in innovative and commercially impactful ways.

This role balances leadership, commercial acumen and creative vision. You are responsible for ensuring KOJO’s Queensland operations are high performing, profitable, culturally strong and strategically positioned for growth.

CORE RESPONSIBILITIES

Leadership of Queensland Production Team

• Lead, mentor and manage a team of four Sport Producers 
• Set clear performance expectations, standards and development plans.
• Oversee resourcing across all QLD projects to ensure sustainable workloads and delivery excellence.
• Foster a positive, solutions-focused and collaborative team culture.
• Provide executive escalation support on complex production and client matters.

Executive Oversight - Sports Presentation Delivery

• Hold ultimate accountability for the successful delivery of KOJO’s sports presentation services across Queensland.
• Provide oversight of budgets, timelines, resourcing and production standards.
• Guide creative direction across all major game day presentations.
• Ensure the KOJO FanX model is understood, embedded and elevated across all events.
• Maintain governance across documentation, reporting and compliance.
• Skill set and ability to showcall games and you must maintain the capability to step into key game day roles when necessary.

Stadium Queensland - Major Events Leadership

• Lead and manage KOJO’s relationships across all Stadium Queensland venues.
• Hold executive accountability for all major events delivered within this portfolio.
• Provide senior stakeholder management across venue operators, sporting bodies, rights holders and commercial partners.
• Identify opportunities to enhance and commercialise fan experiences.
• Ensure contractual obligations and KPIs are met or exceeded.

Commercial & Financial Accountability

• Oversee and approve all Queensland production budgets.
• Ensure projects are delivered within agreed commercial parameters.
• Monitor P&L performance across the Queensland portfolio.
• Identify efficiencies, margin improvement opportunities and growth areas.
• Contribute to pricing strategy and commercial negotiations.

Client & Stakeholder Leadership

• Act as senior point of contact for key Queensland clients.
• Build and maintain long-term strategic relationships.
• Lead high-level client conversations including renewals, performance reviews and scope expansion.
• Support Business Director, GM of Delivery and Account Managers in identifying growth opportunities.

Business Development & Market Growth

• Proactively identify opportunities to grow KOJO’s Queensland footprint.
• Support pitch development and strategic proposals.
• Strengthen KOJO’s position within the Queensland sports and major events market.
• Represent KOJO in market as a senior leader.

Operational Excellence & Standards

• Ensure consistent implementation of KOJO’s production frameworks, documentation and training standards..
• Drive continuous improvement across systems and processes.
• Ensure risk mitigation, safety and compliance across all events.
• Uphold and model KOJO’s values, behaviours and team goals.
• Drive continuous improvement across systems and processes.

SPECIAL CONDITIONS

• Out of hours work, intrastate, interstate and potentially international travel will be required in order to meet the requirements of the role.
• A valid Working With Children’s Check is required. 
• Where pre-approved by your manager and in accordance with our policy, any additional hours worked to meet our operational requirements in excess of reasonable additional hours will accrue time in lieu.

KOJO VALUES GENUINE Authentic, honest and transparent. We do business with heart. CURIOUS We’re always searching, learning and discovering new ideas, processes and ways to collaborate. CARING We care about the welfare and growth of our people, the quality of our work and the partnerships we create with our clients.  FEARLESS A culture of experimentation, pushing the boundaries and freeing our people to have the confidence and support to be bold. We embrace failure as a part of our creative journey..