8 Event Director jobs in London
Event Director (JR101128)
Posted 378 days ago
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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
Director of Event Operations
Posted 1 day ago
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Director of Event Operations – Outdoor Events
London-based + UK-wide travel | Competitive package
Are you a hands-on leader who thrives in the outdoors and loves delivering high-energy, high impact events?
This is a unique opportunity for someone with operational leadership experience and a passion for adventure to join one of the UK’s most respected mass participation events organisers.
Executives in Sport Group are exclusively partnering with a nationally recognised mass participation events business to appoint a Director of Event Operations, a pivotal role at the heart of a growing calendar of iconic outdoor experiences.
The Role
You’ll lead the full operations lifecycle for approximately 20 mass participation events each year, covering planning, logistics, supplier management, risk oversight, and weekend delivery. This is a hands-on, field-based role where you’ll be a visible, active leader on the ground, often camping alongside your team during multi-day events.
Key responsibilities include
- Overseeing the planning and delivery of 20+ UK-wide mass participation events
- Managing a growing delivery team and a large community of event crew and volunteers
- Leading event logistics, infrastructure, and risk processes
- Negotiating with suppliers and ensuring strong cost control
- Constantly evolving systems and operational standards to support growth
- Working weekends on-site, with compensation via flexible time off
What We’re Looking For
- Strong background in complex, large-scale event operations, ideally mass participation or endurance formats
- Proven project management skills across concurrent, overlapping projects
- Someone who loves the outdoors and is excited to be hands-on at events
- A confident leader of people, able to support and motivate teams in fast-paced environments
- Commercially aware and confident managing budgets and negotiations
- Comfortable with extensive travel and time away from home during the event season
If this role is of interest, then please press the apply button and include a copy of your CV.
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Director of Event Operations
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Director of Event Operations – Outdoor Events
London-based + UK-wide travel | Competitive package
Are you a hands-on leader who thrives in the outdoors and loves delivering high-energy, high impact events?
This is a unique opportunity for someone with operational leadership experience and a passion for adventure to join one of the UK’s most respected mass participation events organisers.
Executives in Sport Group are exclusively partnering with a nationally recognised mass participation events business to appoint a Director of Event Operations, a pivotal role at the heart of a growing calendar of iconic outdoor experiences.
The Role
You’ll lead the full operations lifecycle for approximately 20 mass participation events each year, covering planning, logistics, supplier management, risk oversight, and weekend delivery. This is a hands-on, field-based role where you’ll be a visible, active leader on the ground, often camping alongside your team during multi-day events.
Key responsibilities include
- Overseeing the planning and delivery of 20+ UK-wide mass participation events
- Managing a growing delivery team and a large community of event crew and volunteers
- Leading event logistics, infrastructure, and risk processes
- Negotiating with suppliers and ensuring strong cost control
- Constantly evolving systems and operational standards to support growth
- Working weekends on-site, with compensation via flexible time off
What We’re Looking For
- Strong background in complex, large-scale event operations, ideally mass participation or endurance formats
- Proven project management skills across concurrent, overlapping projects
- Someone who loves the outdoors and is excited to be hands-on at events
- A confident leader of people, able to support and motivate teams in fast-paced environments
- Commercially aware and confident managing budgets and negotiations
- Comfortable with extensive travel and time away from home during the event season
If this role is of interest, then please press the apply button and include a copy of your CV.
We ask that applicants complete our diversity monitoring form. You are not obliged to answer any of these questions but the more information you supply, the more effective our monitoring will be. All information supplied is anonymous and will not be viewed by recruiting managers.
(Please copy and paste in to your browser)
Please note that due to the volume of applications received, we are unable to provide specific feedback on unsuccessful applications.
Account Director - Global Event/Experiential Agency - London
Posted 1 day ago
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Our client is an award winning global Integrated Experiential Agency.
We are recruiting for x2 Account Director’s with exceptional experiential experience coupled with client growth management experience.
The key role is to build and develop meaningful relationships with top tier clients to ensure client satisfaction and develop business growth.
The Account Director does not manage the day to day running of individual projects, leaving this to the Project Delivery team, but must ensure those teams are delivering to the needs of the client whilst maintaining profitability.
This role will include onsite delivery of events and due to the international nature of the agency will therefore be required travel abroad for periods up to 2 weeks.
Skills and Experience
- Extensive experience in director level account management across all experiential campaigns
- Extensive experience in organic growth business development
- Experience in delivering high profile, complex and large £Million budgets/projects in an Agency environment!
- Delivering campaigns across gaming, sport and tech.
- Strong pitch management with experience of owning pitches from start to end
- Strong presentation and sales abilities
- Proven leadership qualities
- Experience of working with and presenting to Senior Level client groups and procurement teams within large multinational brands
- Experience in sales, in particular upselling and cross-selling within existing client group
- Impeccable commercial awareness and profitability management skills
- In-depth experience across multiple delivery sectors and comfortable in the specifics of execution. (Exhibitions, events, conference, green field, fixed facility, road shows, government projects)
- Has worked internationally and has experience and understanding of multi-currency projects and regional nuances, pitfalls, H&S, unions etc
- Strong negotiation skills.
- Confident and experienced working with Producers, Project Managers, Production and Technical Managers
- Ability to present information clearly and concisely with excellent oral and written communication skills
- Good level of computer literacy, particularly regarding Microsoft applications
- Clear evidence of growth of account/client portfolio
Key Responsibilities
- Strategic planning to ensure growth of account portfolio
- Being the main point of client contact and ensuring a positive, effective and trusted relationship is maintained and that client expectations are exceeded.
- Developing business growth within the client group under your remit.
- Sourcing new prospects within existing accounts
- Generating new opportunities within existing accounts
- Strong presentation skills and delivery of sales pitches to secure new projects
- Responsibility for client account financial forecasting and revenue targets, manging the overarching account profitability, working closely with the project delivery teams whom manage the day to day projects.
- Taking and developing briefs with clients and presenting them into the delivery teams,
- Leading on pitch work ensuring business strategy and financial planning is effective to deliver project wins and profitability
- Ensuring a detailed overview for all projects with relevant client groups and being the voice of the client in critical internal reviews.
- Ensuring all KPIs are achieved
- Working with Creative and Project Delivery teams to prepare and present client presentations.
- Liaising and working with client and other stakeholders, representing the agency and requirements in those forums.
- Supporting on Client invoicing and receipt of Purchase Orders.
- Negotiation with client and procurement teams on pitch proposals
- Occasionally for filling the role of Project Manager on small projects
- Mentoring and supporting the more junior members of the team to enable departmental growth
Account Director - Global Event/Experiential Agency - London
Posted today
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Our client is an award winning global Integrated Experiential Agency.
We are recruiting for x2 Account Director’s with exceptional experiential experience coupled with client growth management experience.
The key role is to build and develop meaningful relationships with top tier clients to ensure client satisfaction and develop business growth.
The Account Director does not manage the day to day running of individual projects, leaving this to the Project Delivery team, but must ensure those teams are delivering to the needs of the client whilst maintaining profitability.
This role will include onsite delivery of events and due to the international nature of the agency will therefore be required travel abroad for periods up to 2 weeks.
Skills and Experience
- Extensive experience in director level account management across all experiential campaigns
- Extensive experience in organic growth business development
- Experience in delivering high profile, complex and large £Million budgets/projects in an Agency environment!
- Delivering campaigns across gaming, sport and tech.
- Strong pitch management with experience of owning pitches from start to end
- Strong presentation and sales abilities
- Proven leadership qualities
- Experience of working with and presenting to Senior Level client groups and procurement teams within large multinational brands
- Experience in sales, in particular upselling and cross-selling within existing client group
- Impeccable commercial awareness and profitability management skills
- In-depth experience across multiple delivery sectors and comfortable in the specifics of execution. (Exhibitions, events, conference, green field, fixed facility, road shows, government projects)
- Has worked internationally and has experience and understanding of multi-currency projects and regional nuances, pitfalls, H&S, unions etc
- Strong negotiation skills.
- Confident and experienced working with Producers, Project Managers, Production and Technical Managers
- Ability to present information clearly and concisely with excellent oral and written communication skills
- Good level of computer literacy, particularly regarding Microsoft applications
- Clear evidence of growth of account/client portfolio
Key Responsibilities
- Strategic planning to ensure growth of account portfolio
- Being the main point of client contact and ensuring a positive, effective and trusted relationship is maintained and that client expectations are exceeded.
- Developing business growth within the client group under your remit.
- Sourcing new prospects within existing accounts
- Generating new opportunities within existing accounts
- Strong presentation skills and delivery of sales pitches to secure new projects
- Responsibility for client account financial forecasting and revenue targets, manging the overarching account profitability, working closely with the project delivery teams whom manage the day to day projects.
- Taking and developing briefs with clients and presenting them into the delivery teams,
- Leading on pitch work ensuring business strategy and financial planning is effective to deliver project wins and profitability
- Ensuring a detailed overview for all projects with relevant client groups and being the voice of the client in critical internal reviews.
- Ensuring all KPIs are achieved
- Working with Creative and Project Delivery teams to prepare and present client presentations.
- Liaising and working with client and other stakeholders, representing the agency and requirements in those forums.
- Supporting on Client invoicing and receipt of Purchase Orders.
- Negotiation with client and procurement teams on pitch proposals
- Occasionally for filling the role of Project Manager on small projects
- Mentoring and supporting the more junior members of the team to enable departmental growth
Conference Producer (Finance / Investment Management), Full Time, London
Posted 8 days ago
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Conference Producer (Finance / Investment Management), Full Time, London
Company
Neudata is the authoritative global source of data intelligence, dedicated to finding alternative data for investment firms and corporations. Since its launch in 2016, Neudata has worked with thousands of data vendors across multiple sectors and has created Neudata Scout, the largest global roster of dataset insight. Neudata also runs the world’s leading series of alternative
data events, hosting thousands of delegates a year in Asia, Europe and the Americas.
Neudata helps 1000s of active data buyers, at the largest and most sophisticated investment and professional services firms globally, make better decisions about their data spend. Our unique position enables Neudata to provide its clients with accurate and up-to-date insights on the latest trends in data usage including the competitive environment, pricing, data demand, and compliance issues.
Our Values
• Deliver outstanding service.
• Treat everyone how we would like to be treated.
• Work better together.
• Do it the right way.
• Be uncompromisingly honest.
• Never cease to improve and innovate.
Job Description
This is a unique opportunity for a highly organised individual with 2+ years conference production experience (preferably in financial services/investment management) to join a fast-growing data firm. Reporting to Neudata’s Senior Events Project Manager, you will help us to develop, nurture and expand our events programme (in-person and online). Your role will focus on high quality content delivery, programming, operations and overall event management.
Responsibilities
• Deliver key events within Neudata’s events portfolio (research, programming, and operations)
• Identify and acquire senior level speakers across all events
• Contribute to Neudata’s outreach strategy, working closely with our marketing function to grow our events
• Ensure strong communication and collaboration with all internal and external stakeholders
• Suggest compelling new topic and event ideas to management
Who we are looking for
• Degree level education
• 2+ year’s conference production experience (preferably in financial services/investment management)
• Exceptional organisational skills and multi-tasking abilities
• Strong MS Office skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• An interest in the world of Investment Management, Data and Business
Compensation
• Competitive base salary.
• 25 days of annual leave plus an additional day for each year worked (capped at 30 days)
• Flexible work from anywhere, hybrid and office-based work.
• Study days.
• Volunteering day.
• Employee referral bonus scheme.
• Private medical insurance including dental, optical, and hearing.
• Enhanced family policies.
• Company social events.
• Workplace pension scheme with salary sacrifice and pension matching opportunities.
Contact Us
To apply please complete the application form here
If you are unable to complete the form, please submit your CV with an explanation of what you understand about this role and why you feel you are best suited to this position to
Neudata’s London office is located in WeWork’s coworking space at Moor Place .
Recruitment Process
Typically, Neudata’s recruitment and selection process involves an initial screening and shortlisting stage where successful candidates are invited to attend virtual or in person interviews and assessments.
Candidates must be eligible to work in the United Kingdom.
Candidates who may require visa sponsorship should discuss this with the hiring manager during the interview process.
Further information on Skilled Worker sponsorship can be found here .
If you need assistance during the application or interview process, please contact to discuss how we can best support you.
Conference Producer (Finance / Investment Management), Full Time, London
Posted today
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Conference Producer (Finance / Investment Management), Full Time, London
Company
Neudata is the authoritative global source of data intelligence, dedicated to finding alternative data for investment firms and corporations. Since its launch in 2016, Neudata has worked with thousands of data vendors across multiple sectors and has created Neudata Scout, the largest global roster of dataset insight. Neudata also runs the world’s leading series of alternative
data events, hosting thousands of delegates a year in Asia, Europe and the Americas.
Neudata helps 1000s of active data buyers, at the largest and most sophisticated investment and professional services firms globally, make better decisions about their data spend. Our unique position enables Neudata to provide its clients with accurate and up-to-date insights on the latest trends in data usage including the competitive environment, pricing, data demand, and compliance issues.
Our Values
• Deliver outstanding service.
• Treat everyone how we would like to be treated.
• Work better together.
• Do it the right way.
• Be uncompromisingly honest.
• Never cease to improve and innovate.
Job Description
This is a unique opportunity for a highly organised individual with 2+ years conference production experience (preferably in financial services/investment management) to join a fast-growing data firm. Reporting to Neudata’s Senior Events Project Manager, you will help us to develop, nurture and expand our events programme (in-person and online). Your role will focus on high quality content delivery, programming, operations and overall event management.
Responsibilities
• Deliver key events within Neudata’s events portfolio (research, programming, and operations)
• Identify and acquire senior level speakers across all events
• Contribute to Neudata’s outreach strategy, working closely with our marketing function to grow our events
• Ensure strong communication and collaboration with all internal and external stakeholders
• Suggest compelling new topic and event ideas to management
Who we are looking for
• Degree level education
• 2+ year’s conference production experience (preferably in financial services/investment management)
• Exceptional organisational skills and multi-tasking abilities
• Strong MS Office skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• An interest in the world of Investment Management, Data and Business
Compensation
• Competitive base salary.
• 25 days of annual leave plus an additional day for each year worked (capped at 30 days)
• Flexible work from anywhere, hybrid and office-based work.
• Study days.
• Volunteering day.
• Employee referral bonus scheme.
• Private medical insurance including dental, optical, and hearing.
• Enhanced family policies.
• Company social events.
• Workplace pension scheme with salary sacrifice and pension matching opportunities.
Contact Us
To apply please complete the application form here
If you are unable to complete the form, please submit your CV with an explanation of what you understand about this role and why you feel you are best suited to this position to
Neudata’s London office is located in WeWork’s coworking space at Moor Place.
Recruitment Process
Typically, Neudata’s recruitment and selection process involves an initial screening and shortlisting stage where successful candidates are invited to attend virtual or in person interviews and assessments.
Candidates must be eligible to work in the United Kingdom.
Candidates who may require visa sponsorship should discuss this with the hiring manager during the interview process.
Further information on Skilled Worker sponsorship can be found here.
If you need assistance during the application or interview process, please contact to discuss how we can best support you.
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Senior Event Leader - Project Management
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+ Position within the UK Experience Studio Team and opportunity to support the international team.
+ Part of a 13-person team, reporting to the leader of the events department, dedicated to multiple clients.
+ Working together with account managers, the operations director, project managers, and creative teams, as well as freelancers.
**What You'll Do**
+ Acting as the interface between the main client and the project team - which you will assemble - and leading on any creative.
+ Understanding the strategic objectives of our clients, you will serve as the key contact for stakeholders and will translate strategic goals into event recommendations.
+ Demonstrating strong communication skills and providing guidance and solutions to clients on various challenges and any issues arising.
+ Working alongside a dedicated team, you will manage the response to client requests and oversee event production. You'll collaborate with creative, production, and logistics teams. Projects may involve both a UK team and a cross-functional team based in different European countries.
**What We're Looking For**
+ You will lead a cross-functional event team (content, technical, logistics) to ensure effective communication, coordination, and collaboration among stakeholders.
+ You will put the right project teams in place - with the help of the operations manager - in order to define and implement the right profiles and then coordinate the project team throughout the event.
+ You will drive the ideation and creation of concepts, development content, and will be an inspiring leader throughout the process.
+ You'll define project scope, objectives, and deliverables, including managing timelines and budgets. Your understanding of different event components (content, creative, production, logistics) will be crucial. Working alongside a logistics director, you'll be the client's primary point of contact, gathering their needs to brief various stakeholders (copywriters, graphic designers, video editors, etc.).
+ Minimum 10 years of experience in the events industry and 3 years in a similar role.
+ Possess strong project leadership qualities, great attention to detail, and excellent interpersonal skills.
+ Practice effective stress management with the ability to prioritize.
+ Have a proven ability to lead multiple projects simultaneously. Be assertive with good decision-making skills.
**Location**
London, United Kingdom
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