Global Strategic Events Assistant Director - FTC

Global Strategic Events and Experiences Assistant Director - 12-month FTC

Location:

London

Other locations:
Primary Location Only

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Function

The BMC function has an important role to play in helping to achieve EY’s All in strategy, to become the leading global professional services organization. We work hand in hand with the business to take services and solutions to market; bring our purpose, building a better working world, to life for our people, clients and communities; engage our people and build a high performing culture;

and to build the commercial value and emotional resonance of the EY brand.

BMC also includes a number of teams who are responsible for content development, editorial, webcasts, events-staging, strategy, planning and operations. Through the collective power of BMC, and the other teams and specialists we work with, we aim to shape the future with confidence by driving commercial value through distinctive marketing and communications that deliver measurable market impact.

The EY Global Strategic Events and Experience team is a dynamic group dedicated to creating impactful and memorable experiences for clients, stakeholders, and employees. This team specializes in designing and executing high-profile events that align with EY's strategic objectives and enhance brand visibility.

The opportunity

A fabulous opportunity for an Assistant Director level to join the Global Strategic Events and Experiences team in London.

Your key responsibilities

This role designs and delivers the brand experience for clients attending EY Events and externally projects the best of the EY brand.

Success in the role depends upon practical experience of changing external brand perceptions through an event and experience-based strategy, the ability to navigate complex stakeholder management, creating linkage and connections to other parts of the business and inspiring a core team through leadership, relationships and clear direction.

Assist with the design and delivery of the eventas the lynchpin and main point of co-ordination between all the various work streams involved in the delivery of their allocated events.

Create a consistent brand experience through all facets of the events. Ensures brand sign off processes are adhered to across the whole event.

Mentor junior personnel on the strategic events and experiences team to ensure consistent and leading-edge brand experience by capturing and deploying best practices as necessary.

Manage and drive forward the design and delivery of event related technology including complex and detailed registration sites and event apps and work closely with the event technology team.

Form part of multi-functional core teams to deliver events with a culture of high-performance teaming and achieving market impact by managing the work-plan, timeline and budget of all elements of the programme.

Work closely with Legal, Procurement and Independence to ensure compliance for all events.

Seek connections across all of BMC to bring the best of EY to life (including sector, service lines, regions, and other BMC programs such as World Entrepreneur of the Year, International Tax Conference, Young Tax Professional of the Year, as well as industry/third party, sponsorship events.

Provide onsite support to manage various external vendors and agencies to ensure consistent delivery for their own events and supporting their colleagues.

In this role, you will play an important part leading and working on some of EY’s innovative global flagship events and third party…