Reporting to the Sales and Marketing Director you will take overall responsibility for a varied and substantial events calendar. Working with a small team both in the UAE and across the region you will deliver everything from intimate breakfast round tables to conferences for several hundred people.
Responsibilities
- Manage the events team both in country and regionally
- Create the annual events strategy, in particular working to improve partner reputations
- Deliver a full calendar of events across the Middle East
- Ensure all logistics for events are carried out effectively and in a cost efficient way
- Work with global teams to deliver Middle East based conferences
- Coordinate partner and other fee earner attendance to relevant events
- Promote opportunities for partners to speak on panels and as keynotes where appropriate
Requirements
- Must have corporate events experience gained working clientside
- Ideally has experience of professional services or financial services
- At least 5 years of leading events teams
- Minimum 8 years events experience
- Track record of executing strategic calendars to promote a business
- Middle East experience strongly preferred
The SR Group (Dubai) Limited is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.
