Job Vacancies at a Leading Consulting Firm

Description:

Our client is a full-fledged Conference and Corporate Marketing Events Company offering world class, purpose-built facility for Training, Conferences, Meetings, Virtual Offices, Social and Corporate events with state of the art technology.

Job Summary: In this role, the Conference Business Manager will be responsible for managing events/conferences from a commercial and strategic stand point for the organisation i.e should be able to translate concept to cash/insight to income. The main objective is to generate income from events and conference for the Company. He/She will play a crucial role in leading the team to achieve quarterly/annaul financial goals.

The ideal candidate will display a passion for the events industry and have a strong track record in revenue growth with a solid background in event delivery and logistics. He/She will be proactive, hardworking and able to work under his/her own initiative, with a strong commercial mind and ability to identify opportunities and then strategically plan to deliver on these opportunities.

The successful candidate will need to demonstrate excellent communication and customer service skills and display a high level of organisational and project management ability.

Responsibilities includes but not limited to;

• Achieve revenue growth and expand the business
• Organize diverse corporate events for small, medium and large scale companies from various industrial sectors
• Actively seek and support marketing opportunities for the company
• To manage team to achieve financial goals
• Successful event coordination/delivery to consistently high standards
• Supervise event planning and delivery with overall responsibility
• Collaborate with other departments and operational staff to ensure a high quality of event delivery
• Liaise with the facilities team to ensure that all rooms are serviced and set up ready to the client’s specification
• Ensure conferences are up to standard and executives are satisfied
• Responsible for thorough market research during the process of conference selection themes
• Analyse sales activity to inform business decisions
• Provide regular financial reports to senior management team
• Contribute to budgeting process
• Management of client contracts and paperwork
• Oversee the invoicing process to ensure that payments are properly processed
• Input to and keep up-to-date the database of clients and prospective clients to maintain a reliable database
• Monitor and regularly review competitors to ensure that the Company remains competitive as a conference and events company
• Development of individuals within the team

Requirements:

• Minimum of a First degree from a reputable institution
• MBA will be an added advantage
• 7+ years working experience preferably with a local or international conference and event management background
• Good communication and marketing skills
• Strong business development and presentation skill
• Strong relationship building skills
• Customer relationship and project management skills
• Excellent administration and organisational skills
• Good and accurate written skills
• Thorough working knowledge of Microsoft Office (particularly Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint)

Personal attributes

• Enthusiastic, proactive and uses initiative
• Absolute attention to detail
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Ability to work as part of a team
• Willingness to learn new skills
• Ability to work in a changing and flexible organisation
• Willingness to work evenings and weekend