Description:
Passionate about sustainability, climate change and live events, then this is the role for you. You will be taking the lead on one of the industry’s leading events, The World Future Energy Summit, which is held in partnership with Masdar one of the world’s largest renewable energy companies.
As the Event Director is responsible for the strategic development and financial performance of the brand and event. He/she is responsible for identifying and evaluating growth opportunities, using customer insights to develop new service/product solutions or brand extensions based on customer needs.
Successful performance is defined as the ability to deliver positive business outcomes to customers (exhibitors and visitors) and drive revenue and profit growth for RX.
Responsibilities
- Owning the vision, strategy, goals, decisions and policies of RXUK
- Driving the brand and event revenue, strategic development and high-quality delivery
- Being accountable for all activities related to your brand
- Setting the shows budget and undertaking timely and accurate re-forecasts
- Driving individual and team performance to create high performing show teams
- Creating a show strategy which optimises all the levers of growth, includes robust sales and marketing plans and uses customer data
- Owning and communicate the event vision and strategy, aligning and connecting the team (and wider matrix team) and their objectives to the event & the overall RX business vision & strategy
- Creating superior customer solutions by identifying customer needs and problems that need to be solved and leveraging solutions to transform business needs
- Working with operations to deliver the event in line with budget and strategy
- Managing the tenancy agreement and acting as main liaison with the venue
Requirements
- Demonstrate credibility in brand & product management
- Have experience in building successful brands/events
- Demonstrate a proven track record of customer focused leadership.
- Demonstrate a track record of successfully building new business segments while growing existing portfolios.
- Demonstrate high levels of planning at both an operational and strategic level
- Have experience in establishing strategic alliances/business communities
- Have experience in developing new lines of business and products. You will be skilled in reviewing, recommending and integrating new innovations.
- Demonstrate passion for leading diverse teams of both direct and indirect reports demonstrating a strong authentic leadership style with an active focus on customer engagement