Events Director Fashion

Position: Events Director – Fashion
Location: Three Bridges

Events Director – Fashion

Salary: £45-50K + 10% commission (1st Year OTE £80-85K)

Location:

Crawley – (International travel required – Paris, New York)

Start date:

4-6 weeks

The Role

We are seeking a commercially driven Business Unit Director to take full ownership of this growth division and scale it into a profitable, repeatable international proposition. The event concept is to deliver a carefully curated Retail Sourcing Exchange (executive-level B2B) summit connecting senior retail buyers with pre-qualified manufacturers and sourcing partners.

The Exchange is positioned as a strategic sourcing forum — not a traditional trade show or exhibition — designed to maximise efficiency, decision-making and ROI through structured 1–2–1 meetings, commercially focused agenda sessions and high-level networking.

This is a leadership role with full commercial accountability. You will own the P&L, lead sponsor revenue generation, oversee programme production and build a scalable business unit with significant growth potential.

Responsibilities

* Own the full financial performance of the summit series

* Identify and secure aligned fashion suppliers and manufacturers

* Lead senior-level B2B sales conversations

* Set and deliver annual revenue targets across supplier participation fees, sponsorship packages and strategic partnerships

* Build and manage event budgets for London, NYC and Paris

* Forecast supplier sales and margin

* Drive profitability and scalability of the model

* Develop premium supplier participation packages with guaranteed 1–2–1 meetings

* Structure tiered sponsorship offerings

* Negotiate and close commercial agreements

* Build long-term multi-city and multi-year supplier commitments

* Oversee buyer targeting strategy (Senior Buyers, Buying Directors, Heads of Category)

* Ensure buyer audience quality is senior and decision-making level

* Full delegate acquisition responsibilities

* Build relationships with key retail HQs

* Guarantee relevant, pre-qualified 1–2–1 matching

Experience

* 2-3+ years in B2B events, sponsorship sales, fashion commercial roles or retail sourcing environments

* A fashion or manufacturing-related degree is strongly preferred. Equivalent commercial experience within the fashion retail or manufacturing sector will also be considered.

* Demonstrable P&L responsibility

* Experience securing high-value partnerships

* Evidence of building revenue from launch phase

* International event experience (advantageous)

* Manufacturing / Production Management

* Supply Chain Management

Skills & Attributes

* Strong commercial and financial acumen

* Confident senior-level negotiator

* Entrepreneurial and comfortable building from zero

* Highly organised with strategic vision

* Understands retail buying and sourcing dynamics

* Performance-driven and accountable

This is a fully office-based role at our newly refurbished Crawley HQ, featuring an exclusive on-site gym, fully stocked kitchen, and games area (table tennis, pool, darts, F1 simulator, putting green). You’ll be part of a hard-working, sales-driven team that values honesty, loyalty, and results—balanced with a fun, social, and light-hearted

About us

We are a fast-growing, privately owned, entrepreneurial business that has scaled from a kitchen-table start-up into a £4.5 million market leader in just 16 years — with a clear, ambitious plan to reach £7 million in the next three years.

This is a business built on performance, ambition, and results. We reward hard work, promote on merit, and back our people to succeed — in fact, every senior leader in the company has been promoted from within, proving that this is a place where high performers build real careers, not just do a job.

Our culture combines high standards and high energy with honesty, loyalty, and a genuinely fun, social environment. We work hard, we win together, and we enjoy the journey.

Salary and Benefits :

4 weeks holiday allowance – plus an additional 2 weeks off over Christmas.

Staff social events – including our overseas summer party in the Maldives!

Workplace health and wellbeing scheme.

Fast-track promotion opportunities.

Extensive training programme.

Access to our exclusive on-site gym and fully stocked kitchen