Event Manager – Arabic and English Speaking | RealHR Dubai, UAE
The Role
Our client, a leading marketing and events agency based in Dubai is now, due to rapid expansion, looking to recruit a new Events Manager.
Job Profile:
•To deliver outstanding events on behalf of our clients, maintaining excellent client relationships; the agreed levels of profitability and quality project management throughout.
•Full project and file management through the life of the event, from contracting to reconciliation
•Full financial responsibility of own projects
•Management and communication of project timelines (including communication of any changes
Requirements
Essential Skills:
•Significant client service experience in an agency environment or significant client-side experience in similar role
•4 years of experience operating events worldwide (incentives, conferences, road shows, ride and drives, product launches, press events)
•Must have experience in operating full service events comprising all elements of that supplier chain – Hotels; DMCs; Air and proven negotiating skills
•Strong destination knowledge and first hand destination experience; My Client operate across all areas of the GCC and Africa
•Must have proven and extensive operational experience, with some or all of our product mix – incentives, conferences, road shows, ride and drives, product launches, press events.
•Core skills need to exist as a prerequisite: excellent English grammar and diction; ability to converse with high level clients and suppliers;
•Manage a virtual project team to ensure all elements of every project are managed on time/on budget
•A desire and ability to work in the office and to travel on site and work overseas for days or weeks at a time
•Ability to manage multiple projects at one time
•Desire and ability to always exceed expectations, deliver fabulous quality and to think and act creatively about the programme and the delegate experience
•We expect each Project Manager to run between 7 – 12 events a year (dependent on complexity), so a suitable Project Manager should have significant operational experience over a number of years
•Ability to problem solve and work independently in a challenging and multi-tasking environment with numerous deadlines.
•Strong relationship building and negotiation skills
•MUST have experience in Events for Delegates from 10-1000+ people for blue chip clients
•Previous financial responsibility, with evidence of managing costs or monitoring budgets with ability to budget, revise budgets, track changes; uplift profit; reconcile etc.
•Excellent communication skills – verbal, written, presentational – with clarity of expression
ONLY successful candidates will be contacted.
