Event Director

**The role**:
**The role would include**:

- Clearly direct and drive the team with clear decision making to deliver a seamless event
- Take ownership on delivering the conference - including overseeing logistics, speaker management, sponsorship management, delegate management and financial management.
- Ensuring that the event services and solutions offered deliver ROI and solve client challenges
- Ensure MOI solutions are based on best practise and ahead of our competition
- Offer clear strategic thought at all levels, understanding client needs, thinking outside the box and ensuring that the client is given quality direction at all times.
- Team structure - ensure that work is delegated appropriately to ensure that the correct service levels can be provided to the client at all times i.e. an exec can do admin to free-up a manager to coordinate the whole project, to allow the account director capacity to add strategy, content and planning advice and guidance to client projects.
- Manage the resource to ensure that workload is shared evenly across the team and that no-individual team member is either over-burdened or under-utilised. Delegate responsibly and ensure that all team members are benefiting from your time, and exposure to different projects to increase their skills.
- Drive team synergy and positive team spirit to ensure your team feels supported, can execute and deliver assigned aspects of the client business plans on time and budget, has a clear understanding of team and individual goals
- All conflict is dealt with in a positive manner with minimum fuss.
- Be accountability for ensuring that the management team are regularly updated on progress of the event.
- Corporate responsibility - accountable to the board of directors that all actions of the team are done in good faith, and with the core company values in-mind.

**Essential Requirements**
- Experience of organising 2500+ delegate conferences
- Agency experience essential
- Comprehensive understanding of the B2B event management industry
- Ability to understand client objectives and interpret them to develop a integrated event strategy (including good listening and questioning skills)
- Strong project manager - be able to juggle multiple tasks smoothly, be organised, have good time management and be in control. Managing the clients and colleagues expectations accurately with the ability to meet agreed deadlines.
- Experience managing a wider team on site at an event, with the ability to troubleshoot on site at events before anyone else, react accordingly and provide solutions to the internal team, external suppliers and clients alike.
- Immaculate attention to detail & writing skills - can input information quickly, accurately and thoroughly. Comfortable with proof reading and basic copywriting
- Financial control - experience of producing client facing budgets and closely of tracking campaign costs.
- Team player - happy to take instructions but also work independently and proactively when required.
- Confident and positive attitude - this is a client facing role that needs a happy, enthusiastic and professional person who is happy to get involved in a wide range of marketing/event activities and understands how to liaise and present themselves in front of clients and suppliers within a working environment.
- Self-motivated and driven - they must be committed to what the role entails, can embrace the challenges and be hungry to learn.
- Excel, Word and PowerPoint literate - an good understanding and experience in working with spreadsheets and creating proposals and presentations in PowerPoint
- Calm under pressure - our working environment gets extremely busy and stressful. The ability to be able to work independently when needed, be forward thinking and use initiative. Ability to make reactive decisions confidently and coherently on site at events quickly that are the right decision and articulate to the wider team in a positive way.

**About MOI**:
When today's always-on world means your buyers can research, reject, or shortlist your brand without even talking to you, we'll get you into the conversation. MOI Global is a B2B creative agency connecting you with a new breed of buyer. Re-engineering your marketing eco-system to target the places they hang out and the people they listen to.

With offices in London, New York and Singapore, we help our clients deliver head turning campaigns that target international and local markets. Our services cover all aspects of a buyer's omni-channel world, including digital, social media, events, direct mail and telemarketing. Clients include Oracle, Google Cloud, Facebook, Fuji Xerox, Grab and Red Hat.