At a Glance
- Tasks: Plan and manage exciting events while driving growth in a dynamic media environment.
- Company: Join Emap, a leading media company with a focus on innovation and collaboration.
- Benefits: Enjoy competitive salary, bonuses, health plans, and continuous learning opportunities.
- Other info: Flexible working options and a vibrant team culture await you.
- Why this job: Be a key player in creating exceptional events that make a real impact.
- Qualifications: Experience in event planning and strong leadership skills are essential.
The predicted salary is between 40000 - 50000 £ per year.
Employment Type: Full time, Permanent/ Hybrid
Salary: £Competitive DOE + 35% Bonus
Overall, Purpose of the Role: One of the most exciting roles in media and events is now available. Reporting to the Managing Director of Emap’s Emerald Division your role is to increase profits by producing, managing, and driving the growth of our events portfolio. You will be concerned with event creation, but will also have the events logistics, events marketing (Emerald), and delegate sales teams reporting to you. The brand commercial teams operate sponsorship sales, but you should be comfortable contributing to this and working in a ‘matrix’ environment.
The role involves content and project management of a growing portfolio of events. Currently these are predominately conferences and awards, and in keeping with the pace of innovation in the events space, the Group Event Director will be a driving force behind diversifying into new events formats for an exceptional event experience. We deliver outstanding events for delegates and sponsors alike, at the same time delivering commercial success. The role of the Event Director is to bring together the team behind their vision and ensure full alignment between the quality of our events and commercial imperatives.
Management of P+L for all events. Ownership of event research, validation, creative and production elements of both existing and new events. Strategic planning and vision for the future, understanding market trends, evaluating long term commercial potential, and reinforcing brand values. Part of wider Emerald division executive team managing across our business, the business revenues come from subscriptions, events, marketing solutions, and lead generation.
Ideally has worked in a media brand business, with multiple events, although we would be interested in candidates from pure-play events businesses. Your journey to Group Event Director could have come from any of the content, marketing, sales, or operations disciplines. Has launched events themselves and can demonstrate good experience of what it takes to make exceptional events happen. A proven track record of successfully developing individuals through first rate coaching and leadership.
Key Skills:
- Planning & organization
- Setting content strategy, the vision, content direction, including new formats and features
- Relationship building
- Experience of coaching
- Building a high performing team
- Proven record of experience as an Event Director
At emap, we believe that employee learning and development are the key drivers of our success. To ensure continuous growth and meet the ever-changing demands of the workplace, we provide an environment that fosters continuous development for our employees. Our employees are encouraged to identify their areas of personal and professional development aligned with our strategic areas, including management development, health, safety & wellbeing, sales, event management, marketing strategy, editorial, and information technology.
We have a structured framework designed to help equip our employees with the necessary knowledge, skills, and behaviours to excel in their job roles, contributing to achieving our organisational objectives. To support our employees’ career development, we have designed specialised programs, as well as other stand-alone role-specific and generic courses, under the emap academy.
Benefits:
- 25 days of annual leave, with the option to buy or sell additional days
- One additional day of annual leave per year - Celebration Day
- Health plan
- Life assurance
- Private virtual GP access
- Seasonal flu jabs available at the office
- Continuous learning & development opportunities
- In-house Excellence Awards and other innovation projects
- Cycle-to-work scheme
- Discounted gym memberships
- Retail discount vouchers
- Rail season ticket loans
- Pension scheme
- Annual Summer & Winter Celebrations
- Work from home during August
Diversity and Inclusion: We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity and inclusion. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, age, religion or belief, pregnancy and maternity, marriage and civil partnership, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or disability status.
