35 Event Director jobs in the United Kingdom

Event Director

West Yorkshire

£55,000 + benefits

Don't miss this fantastic opportunity to join a rapidly growing full service creative comms agency where you will lead large scale projects and key account relationships.

The Agency

With a client list of big name brands and some of the best minds in the business, this agency creates full service comms campaigns for businesses as well as experiences and events. From internal comms conferences, to large scale product launches and activations as well as awards ceremonies - they offer a full services solutions on events from content, to messaging, production and logistics.

The Role

Due to consistent growth across their client base we are now supporting this fantastic agency with the hire of an Event Project Director to take the lead on all event projects. This is a client facing role where you will be expected to build lasting relations as well as organically unearth new opportunities within the accounts. The role will lead projects end to end and work collaboratively with full service departments including strategy, content, creative, film & digital as well as managing suppliers, budgets and on-site execution.

About you

With a strong background in event project delivery in an AGENCY environment you will have delivered large scale events from conferences to awards and incentives as well as roadshows! You will understand broader comms campaigns and how events fits into this and be used to working across agency departments and will external suppliers. You love building client relationships and naturally develop business through excellent delivery and have an understanding of broadcast/hybrid events. Proposal writing and pitching for new business is your strength as well as leading projects end to end - your knowledge of production, content and logistics is equally strong.

Get in touch with us to register your details if you are interested in other positions - we specialise in events, production, creative, marketing, comms & advertising.

At Clarion, our people are at the absolute heart of what we do. We’re proud that our core values of PASSION , CARE , IMAGINATION, and TRUST define the way we carry out our work across all of our exhibitions and conferences.

If you share our values and want to be a part of a successful, dynamic, and creative global business, then we want to hear from you.

The Opportunity

Clarion’s Gaming Division stands as the world’s premier information provider for the global gaming, gambling and entertainment technology sectors. We transcend the role of a mere service provider; we are a dedicated partner, committed to connecting, supporting, promoting, and defending the interests of businesses across the international gaming community all year-round.

Market projections suggest that the global interactive gambling market will soar to $140 billion by 2028, while the land-based gaming market is expected to reach €126 billion by 2026. This is your chance to join an established, rapidly growing, and essential supplier in a highly lucrative, ever evolving, and exciting industry.

ICE is the leading tradeshow for the entire global gaming and gambling industry and has recently embarked on a significant expansion project with a move to Barcelona from January 2025. A formal, customer-led bid process established in 2023, determined Barcelona as the new home for gaming and with over 20% growth established from 2024 to 2025 – the event is primed for further significant evolution, expansion and investment as it continues its global dominance. ICE is one of the largest and most successful tradeshows globally and in the top five of Clarion’s stable.

Key Responsibilities:

• Overall responsibility for the day-to-day management of the ICE brand and it’s P&L performance and live events delivery.
• Develops a value proposition and annual business plan for ICE London, through a mixture of quantitative and qualitative research and analysis, together with the Content/Marketing/Commercial teams.
• Works within the agreed budget process to establish a 3-year budget/vision/strategy for ICE to achieve agreed growth, KPI’s and customer metrics.
• Uses customer insights to improve sponsor, exhibitor and attendee experience and explore new initiatives and product launches.
• Project manages live event delivery, bringing together all functions (marketing, customer success, sales, ops) to ensure a solid path to a successful event with clear and measurable timelines and key success factors. 
• Understands key market segments and drivers and reflects them in the direction of ICE.
• Monitors strengths and weaknesses in competition and identifies USPs for ICE.
• Works directly with the head of sales to implement the key account strategy on ICE.
• Maintains relationships with ICE key customers, venue and stakeholders and builds relationships with new potential customers who are strategically important for the brand.
• Deliver regular financial forecasts for the event.
• Team development – work with individuals in the team to develop skill sets and build succession plan.
• Working closely with the digital teams in Clarion Gaming to capitalise on a hybrid customer experience via key accounts and preshow, at show and post-show audience engagement.

Requirements

Knowledge, Skills & Behaviours:

• Proven experience in a similar role managing a mid or large-scale festival/ conference/exhibition.
• Inspiring leader with excellent interpersonal and team management skills.
• Passionate and knowledgeable about live experiences and customer success.
• Experience managing key customer relationships.
• Loves data - and can use it to best advantage to develop product and brand. 
• Demonstrates a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion through continuous development, modelling inclusive behaviours, and proactively managing bias.Curious, humble, with a relentless will to improve.
• Commercial and strategic with the perfect balance of commercial drive, mixed with product development and CX.
• Customer centric and feedback focused.

Values:

The Gaming team is a group of enthusiastic individuals driven by the following values:

We love the unexpected:

• We’re adventurous and willing to try new things
• We embrace and drive change
• We aim to surprise and delight

We’re open and happy to share:

• We engage with stakeholders outside the event
• We build sharing communities
• We embrace others’ ideas

We’re committed to caring:

• We take personal responsibility to get things done
• We always think about every step of the experience
• We strive to understand and meet customers’ needs

We continuously learn:

• We actively seek inspiration from all quarters
• We constantly strive to improve what we do and how we do it
• We help learning lead to growth

About Clarion Events

Clarion Events is one of the world’s leading event organisers, producing and delivering innovative and market-leading events since 1947. ( )

Clarion Events embrace diversity and equal opportunities in all that we do. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. The more inclusive we are, the better our work will be.

Clarion is private equity backed and owned by Blackstone. Blackstone is one of the world’s leading global investment funds, investing capital for the long term in order to build successful, resilient businesses. ( )

Our purpose is to deliver exceptional customer outcomes and experiences, by making every connection count.

Our vision is we want every one of our products to be a market leader in customer satisfaction and delight.

Benefits

• 25 days’ holiday plus bank holidays
• End of year wellbeing shutdown (closed for the last week of the year)
• Celebration day off (e.g. birthday, Diwali, Eid, etc)
• Summer Hours in August (3pm finish on Fridays)
• Helping Our World (HOW) Days – one paid day per quarter to carry out charity work
• Pension Scheme
• Private Medical Insurance
• Health Cash Plan
• Wellbeing Library (MYNDUP)
• Mentoring Programme
• Subsidised Café
• Season Ticket Loan
• Cycle to Work Schemes
• Free on-site gym and shower facilities
• Free eyesight tests
• Free flu vaccination – offered on site once a year for all employees

Commercial Sales Event Director - Flagship International Exhibition
London | 80,000 + Commission + Excellent Benefits

I am recruiting on behalf of my client for an and experienced Sales Director to lead the commercial strategy for a flagship Pan-African defence and security exhibition and conference .

This high-profile role is responsible for driving exhibitor and sponsorship sales, building strategic partnerships, and ensuring revenue growth across African and international markets. The successful candidate will play a critical role in delivering a world-class event that attracts government, military and industry stakeholders from across the globe.

• Develop and execute a comprehensive sales strategy to achieve revenue targets

• Drive exhibitor and sponsorship acquisition across defence, aerospace, security, and related sectors

• Build and manage strong relationships with defence contractors, government officials, international delegations, and trade associations

• Lead and mentor a small but high-performing sales team, monitoring performance and KPIs

• Collaborate with marketing, content, and operations teams to ensure consistent messaging and delivery

• Oversee international agents and country pavilions to maximise participation

• Monitor global defence market trends, identifying new opportunities for growth

• 7-10+ years of B2B sales experience, ideally within large-scale international exhibitions (experience in defence, aerospace or security strongly preferred)

• Proven track record of exceeding commercial targets and growing revenues

• Strong network within the African and global defence/security industries (experience with events such as IDEX, AAD, DSEI is an advantage)

• Degree educated with excellent commercial and strategic leadership skills

• Confident communicator and negotiator with senior-level stakeholders

• Experience managing and motivating sales teams

• Comfortable working across diverse geographies and cultures

• Willingness to travel extensively across Africa and internationally

• Strong CRM skills (Salesforce desirable)

• 80,000 base salary + commission

• Excellent benefits

• International travel opportunities

This is an exciting opportunity for a commercially astute sales leader who thrives on building global partnerships and delivering growth on a high-profile international stage.

We Are Aspire Ltd are a Disability Confident Commited employer

Commercial Sales Event Director - Flagship International Exhibition
London | 80,000 + Commission + Excellent Benefits

I am recruiting on behalf of my client for an and experienced Sales Director to lead the commercial strategy for a flagship Pan-African defence and security exhibition and conference .

This high-profile role is responsible for driving exhibitor and sponsorship sales, building strategic partnerships, and ensuring revenue growth across African and international markets. The successful candidate will play a critical role in delivering a world-class event that attracts government, military and industry stakeholders from across the globe.

• Develop and execute a comprehensive sales strategy to achieve revenue targets

• Drive exhibitor and sponsorship acquisition across defence, aerospace, security, and related sectors

• Build and manage strong relationships with defence contractors, government officials, international delegations, and trade associations

• Lead and mentor a small but high-performing sales team, monitoring performance and KPIs

• Collaborate with marketing, content, and operations teams to ensure consistent messaging and delivery

• Oversee international agents and country pavilions to maximise participation

• Monitor global defence market trends, identifying new opportunities for growth

• 7-10+ years of B2B sales experience, ideally within large-scale international exhibitions (experience in defence, aerospace or security strongly preferred)

• Proven track record of exceeding commercial targets and growing revenues

• Strong network within the African and global defence/security industries (experience with events such as IDEX, AAD, DSEI is an advantage)

• Degree educated with excellent commercial and strategic leadership skills

• Confident communicator and negotiator with senior-level stakeholders

• Experience managing and motivating sales teams

• Comfortable working across diverse geographies and cultures

• Willingness to travel extensively across Africa and internationally

• Strong CRM skills (Salesforce desirable)

• 80,000 base salary + commission

• Excellent benefits

• International travel opportunities

This is an exciting opportunity for a commercially astute sales leader who thrives on building global partnerships and delivering growth on a high-profile international stage.

We Are Aspire Ltd are a Disability Confident Commited employer

Commercial Sales Event Director - Flagship International Exhibition
London | 80,000 + Commission + Excellent Benefits

I am recruiting on behalf of my client for an and experienced Sales Director to lead the commercial strategy for a flagship Pan-African defence and security exhibition and conference .

This high-profile role is responsible for driving exhibitor and sponsorship sales, building strategic partnerships, and ensuring revenue growth across African and international markets. The successful candidate will play a critical role in delivering a world-class event that attracts government, military and industry stakeholders from across the globe.

• Develop and execute a comprehensive sales strategy to achieve revenue targets

• Drive exhibitor and sponsorship acquisition across defence, aerospace, security, and related sectors

• Build and manage strong relationships with defence contractors, government officials, international delegations, and trade associations

• Lead and mentor a small but high-performing sales team, monitoring performance and KPIs

• Collaborate with marketing, content, and operations teams to ensure consistent messaging and delivery

• Oversee international agents and country pavilions to maximise participation

• Monitor global defence market trends, identifying new opportunities for growth

• 7-10+ years of B2B sales experience, ideally within large-scale international exhibitions (experience in defence, aerospace or security strongly preferred)

• Proven track record of exceeding commercial targets and growing revenues

• Strong network within the African and global defence/security industries (experience with events such as IDEX, AAD, DSEI is an advantage)

• Degree educated with excellent commercial and strategic leadership skills

• Confident communicator and negotiator with senior-level stakeholders

• Experience managing and motivating sales teams

• Comfortable working across diverse geographies and cultures

• Willingness to travel extensively across Africa and internationally

• Strong CRM skills (Salesforce desirable)

• 80,000 base salary + commission

• Excellent benefits

• International travel opportunities

This is an exciting opportunity for a commercially astute sales leader who thrives on building global partnerships and delivering growth on a high-profile international stage.

We Are Aspire Ltd are a Disability Confident Commited employer

Commercial Sales Event Director - Flagship International Exhibition
London | 80,000 + Commission + Excellent Benefits

I am recruiting on behalf of my client for an and experienced Sales Director to lead the commercial strategy for a flagship Pan-African defence and security exhibition and conference .

This high-profile role is responsible for driving exhibitor and sponsorship sales, building strategic partnerships, and ensuring revenue growth across African and international markets. The successful candidate will play a critical role in delivering a world-class event that attracts government, military and industry stakeholders from across the globe.

• Develop and execute a comprehensive sales strategy to achieve revenue targets

• Drive exhibitor and sponsorship acquisition across defence, aerospace, security, and related sectors

• Build and manage strong relationships with defence contractors, government officials, international delegations, and trade associations

• Lead and mentor a small but high-performing sales team, monitoring performance and KPIs

• Collaborate with marketing, content, and operations teams to ensure consistent messaging and delivery

• Oversee international agents and country pavilions to maximise participation

• Monitor global defence market trends, identifying new opportunities for growth

• 7-10+ years of B2B sales experience, ideally within large-scale international exhibitions (experience in defence, aerospace or security strongly preferred)

• Proven track record of exceeding commercial targets and growing revenues

• Strong network within the African and global defence/security industries (experience with events such as IDEX, AAD, DSEI is an advantage)

• Degree educated with excellent commercial and strategic leadership skills

• Confident communicator and negotiator with senior-level stakeholders

• Experience managing and motivating sales teams

• Comfortable working across diverse geographies and cultures

• Willingness to travel extensively across Africa and internationally

• Strong CRM skills (Salesforce desirable)

• 80,000 base salary + commission

• Excellent benefits

• International travel opportunities

This is an exciting opportunity for a commercially astute sales leader who thrives on building global partnerships and delivering growth on a high-profile international stage.

We Are Aspire Ltd are a Disability Confident Commited employer