Job Title

Events Executive EMEA

Job Description Summary

Job Description

EMEA Events Executive
Location: London

We have a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Events Executive to join Marketing & Research team based in London.

Joining as the Events Executive, you will report into our EMEA Events Manager, supporting her and the Head of Events to deliver a fully coordinated programme of relationship building opportunities to support the targeting, tracking and winning new business within the UK, and from the major EMEA Events & Exhibitions.

You will have the opportunity to work closely with our fee generating teams to identify opportunities, and alongside business development managers and our insights team, and you  will ensure that we maximise our opportunity for supporting the sale.

Key Responsibilities:

•    Making C&W Exhibitions & Events an exemplary brand experience – for clients, targets and our people
•    Help to deliver and drive an industry leading exhibition and event strategy for the EMEA business
•    Delivery of live, hybrid & virtual events across all business sectors
•    Project management and production of exhibition & events from concept to delivery
•    Ensure close working with Business Development Managers
•    European travel required and out of hours working
•    Deliver monthly reporting to allow us to see the extent of opportunities for engagement with the divisions of the business
•    Leverage Salesforce Marketing Cloud and supporting systems
•    Event Branding – place cards, name badges, branded merchandise, banners
•    Inbox management – response logging, sign-posting, sending out invitations
•    Ad-hoc amin support for Head of EMEA Events

Key Skills:

•    Both written and oral, ideally with experience working across multiple countries
•    Experience delivering corporate events
•    Confident hosting live/hybrids events, good knowledge of platforms including MS Teams, Teams Townhall and ON24
•    Able to demonstrate end to end exhibition/event strategy, planning and delivery skills and experience
•    Experience of client relationship programmes
•    Experience leveraging CRM and event management systems
•    Previous experience of working within professional services or business to business environment is useful but not essential

Skills & Personal Qualities:

•    Ability and confidence to relate and work closely with the business
•    Commercial acumen
•    Ability to understand client needs and translate these into relationship building opportunities
•    Proactive, high-energy person who can be a positive influence on others in a fast-moving environment
•    A can-do attitude no task too big or detail too small
•    Confident multi tasker able to juggle multiple projects at once 
•    Excellent project and time management – and demonstrate ability to successfully work on multiple projects simultaneously
•    Excellent communicator – verbally and in writing - informal emails or formal senior stakeholder presentations
•    Must be able to effectively work with people in all disciplines, all cultures, at all levels
•    Ability to think strategically and be able to prioritise
•    Strong digital and social skills (MS Office, LinkedIn, Facebook) 
•    Knowledge and experience of using Aventri would be an advantage
•    Excellent attention to detail
•    Brings a sense of fun and energy to the role

Professional Experience 

•    Ideally educated to degree level, preferred but not essential 
•    Event Management qualifications preferred but not essential

INCO: “Cushman & Wakefield”