Associate Director, Conferences Logistics

Associate Director

As an Associate Director, you will be responsible for leading a team of highly skilled operations professionals to flawlessly deliver a portfolio of complex, fast growing conferences which meet our financial goals. To be successful in this role you must learn and understand our corporate strategy and translate it into an operations strategy which delivers exceptional conference experiences for our customers.

Your role is to guide the team's decision making, delivering for today whilst planning for the future.

• Lead operations strategy for regional conference portfolio in partnership with COEs.
• Recruit, retain and coach a team of agile, customer focused, operational experts.
• Deliver for today while preparing for the future.
• Overall responsibility for regional portfolio budgets including preparation, negotiations, accurate and timely monthly forecasts.

• Bachelor's degree, preferred
• 10+ years Event Management experience
• Proven event operational skills including food & beverage, production schedules, budget management and event staffing
• Project management experience on detailed programs with multiple variables and dependencies
• Proven experience in managing agency and vendor partners
• Proven people management experience
• Strong interpersonal and relationship building skills especially with senior level professionals, cross-functionally and with agency partners
• Creative, innovative and strategic thinker with a strong attention to detail
• Strong financial management skills
• Motivated team player with desire to learn and grow.
• Excellent written/oral communication and presentations skills
• Demonstrated ability to adapt, implement and manage change and strive for continuous improvement.
• Ability to thrive in high pressure situations
• Confident decision maker
• Ability to travel up to 20%, domestically & internationally