Senior Event Director

**Senior Event Director**

**The Role**

The leading global multi-specialist B2B agency is searching for a permanent Senior Events Director to join our team in Singapore.

Reporting to MOI's General Manager in APAC, the Senior Event Director will be responsible for planning, executing, and managing head-turning virtual and physical experiences for some of the world's greatest technology organisations. This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced events leader to direct our experiential team in Singapore and collaborate with our specialists in London and North America to grow MOI's award-winning Experiential service to tech giants across the globe.

**The role would include**:

- Clearly direct and drive the experiential team with clear decision-making to deliver seamless events
- Take ownership on delivering conferences - including overseeing logistics, speaker management, sponsorship management, delegate management and financial management
- Ensure that the event services and solutions offered deliver ROI and solve client challenges
- Ensure MOI solutions are based on best practices 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 always given quality direction
- 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 accountable for ensuring that the management team are regularly updated on progress of the event
- Work closely with the client servicing and growth team to drive business revenue
- Report timely on sales forecast and revenue recognition to ensure the profitability of the business

**What we need from you**:
MOI is a B2B agency with creative thinking that solves customers' business problems running through its veins. Everyone brings different skills and experience and we thrive on creating change. Collaboration lays the foundation for creating Turning Heads ideas and problem-solving, and we need you to play your part. That's why it's vital that you are an individual with a strong personality, a flair for doing things differently, and have:

- Experience of organising virtual and physical B2B events (preferably for tech organisations)
- A minimum of 8-10 years' experience in organizing live events, meetings and exhibitions
- The ability to understand client objectives and interpret them to develop an integrated event strategy (including good listening and questioning skills)
- Comfortable with writing concise briefs and briefing the extended project team to ensure they understand the ask, objectives and key outputs.
- The ability to juggle multiple tasks smoothly, be organized, and have good time management and 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 proofreading and basic copywriting
- Drive new opportunities for growth, which requires close collaboration with Client Services team on pitches with a focus on Events
- Experience running events in the region is a plus
- Financial control experience producing client-facing budgets and closely of tracking campaign costs
- A 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.
- Literate skills in Excel, Word and PowerPoint - a good understanding and experience in working with spreadsheets and creating proposals and presentations in PowerPoint
- A calm approach - our working environment gets extremely busy and stressful. The ability to be able to work independently when needed, be forward-thinking and u