Exhibition Director - Cityscape West
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About the Role
Tahaluf is seeking an Exhibition Director for Cityscape West to develop and execute strategy for the event, manage sales, marketing, and operations, and achieve revenue targets. Requires solid experience as an Exhibition Director in B2B and strong strategic thinking.
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Responsibilities
- Develop, direct and execute strategy for ongoing development of events
- Responsible for digital and physical sales, visitor marketing, conference and content development and onsite show operations
- Ensure event achieves revenue, expenditure, and operating profit targets
- Manage internal stakeholder relationships and maintain partnership with Commercial Director
- Develop and implement rolling strategic plan
- Create, manage and deliver annual budget and quarterly forecast
- Define focus and profile of the event
- Develop staff within the portfolio
Requirements
- Solid experience as an Exhibition Director, preferably in B2B sector
- Demonstrable strategic thinking and strategic planning experience
- Strong business acumen and experience in reporting, budgeting and forecasting
- Excellent interpersonal, communication and presentation skills
- Strong networking ability and highly collaborative
- Thorough understanding of the Exhibitions industry
- Bachelor's Degree
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Job Description
- As an Exhibition Director (ED) at Tahaluf, you will play a key role and make two main contributions to the business – creating a strategy for future growth and executing tactics to ensure the highest possible quality delivery.
- As an Exhibition Director for Portfolio 2 (the home of Cityscape Global and Global Health Exhibition) you will possess flawless reporting and presentation abilities.
Key Responsibilities
- Embrace, support and maintain the team culture.
- Become an ambassador of events, developing key relationships with clients, industry bodies, business leaders and suppliers.
- Maintain a strong & dynamic partnership with the Commercial Director.
- Successfully manage internal stakeholder relationships.
- Establish a successful and trusted leadership partnership with the AVP and EVP.
- Develop and implement rolling strategic plan.
- Continue to position and maintain the show as the definitive event in its market.
- Create, manage and deliver an annual budget and quarterly forecast.
- Define focus and profile of the event.
- Create an environment in which people can be motivated, valued and successful.
- Development of staff within the portfolio.
Qualifications
- Solid experience as an Exhibition Director, preferably in the B2B sector.
- Demonstrable strategic thinking and strategic planning experience.
- Strong business acumen and experience in reporting, budgeting and forecasting.
- Excellent interpersonal, communication and presentation skills.
- Strong networking ability and highly collaborative.
- A thorough understanding of the Exhibitions industry.
- Ability to absorb current affairs and political dynamics.
- Demonstrable experience of responding to key industry dynamics.
- A creative and intuitive approach.
- An understanding of the business and information needs of key customer communities.
- A passion for growth and ability to thrive on constant change.
- Middle East experience Saudi experience (preferable)
Additional Information
- Competitive bonus
- BUPA Medical Insurance for you and your family
- Annual leave – 28 days
- Remote working on Sundays
- Working anywhere – 8 weeks every year
- Residency visa including yearly dependent fees
- School fees contribution, 40,000 SAR per child per year (up to a max of three children)
- Individual annual flight allowance for expats
- International Relocation Package
- Local Relocation Package
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