Group Event Director in Croydon

Base Location: East Croydon

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.

Key responsibilities:

• Management of P+L for all events.
• Ownership of event research, validation, creative and production elements of both existing and new events.
• Team management.
• 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.

Candidate profile:

• 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.
• Excellent communicator with exceptional negotiation and influencing skills.
• Ability to lead a high performing team in a fast-paced environment, while working closely with others in a matrix environment.
• A proven track record of successfully developing individuals through first rate coaching and leadership.
• A problem solver who moves with pace and purpose.

Core competencies:

• Planning & organization
• Setting content strategy, the vision, content direction, including new formats and features
• Idea generation
• Relationship building
• Cost management
• Ability to work at pace.
• Experience of coaching
• Building a high performing team

Personal Attributes:

• Professional and well-presented.
• 12+ years of experience in events.
• Polite and articulate.
• Positive and enthusiastic attitude.
• Strong interpersonal skills.
• Strong drive and determination to succeed.
• Competitive and results oriented.
• Takes proactive approach to self-development, must demonstrate an interest in technological development.
• Initiative-taking and competitive nature.
• Appreciation of wider business strategies within EMAP and across the group.
• Problem solver

What we offer:

Learning & Development:

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
• One paid volunteer day per year
• Annual Summer & Winter Celebrations
• Work from home during August
• Income protection and more

Privacy:

Metropolis Group respects the privacy of every person for whom we have personal data. We comply with data protection legislation such as the Data Protection Act 1998 and the General Data Protection Regulation which regulates the processing of data and ensures that your data is processed fairly and lawfully, is kept secure and only that data necessary for any processing is kept.

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.

How to apply:

Please submit your CV and covering letter. Due to the volume of applications, we receive, we are unable to give individual feedback at the application stage, however if you are successfully shortlisted, you will be contacted within 10 working days of your application.