Event Sales Lead
Full time
at WS
in
Bahrain
Posted on May 8, 2024
Job details
Responsibilities:
- Providing strategic guidance and consultation for new corporate events, and other experiences
- Designing recommendations for strategic approach, budget, and creative direction of new events
- Designing and implementing methods to transform the digital experience of company events.
- Managing communications and promotional materials for special events
- Developing approach and methods to evaluate and measure event success. Leverage insights in the development of an annual strategy
- Influencing and negotiating with internal partners as needed in the best interests.
- Producing detailed proposals for events, e.g., timelines, venues, suppliers, legal obligations, staffing, and budgets
- Coordinating venue management, stand designers, contractors, and equipment hire.
- Liaising with marketing team to promote the event.
- Performing post-event evaluation; including data entry and analysis and producing reports for event stakeholders.
- Acquire events management contracts and to strengthen the organization’s general sales and marketing operations.
- Minimum of bachelor’s degree
- At least 3 years of event management experience preferred.
- Extensive knowledge managing vendors and partnering with internal business cohorts in supporting operative events.
- Exceptional communication and presentation skills, both written and verbal
- Strong attention-to-detail, self-directed initiative, resourcefulness, and drive for innovation
- Exceptional time, resource management, and organizational skills
- Operational project management skills and experience creating work plans, meeting agendas and other collaboration tools.
- Strong customer-orientation and proven reputation of collaborative work relationships
- Strong influencing and negotiation skills
- Exceptional executive presence and ability to cultivate positive relationships with cross- functional partners and executive leaders.
- Effective, independent decision-making ability; Calm appearance under pressure
- Manama: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Preferred)
- Event Sales Management: 3 years (Required)
- Arabic (Required)
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