Associate Events Director

Now, about the opportunity: As an Associate Events Account Director, you will work cross-functionally with internal partners on marketing events to launch targeted experiential marketing campaigns for our clients. We are seeking someone to work seamlessly with clients and our internal creative teams to produce the best work possible, while managing a team, resources and meeting project deadlines.

The ideal match for our culture is resourceful in all conditions, asks the right questions, delights in the fine details of their craft, and works fast and flexibly to get the job done. Humility and collaboration are also a big part of their DNA.

Sound like you? Then let’s get acquainted! This position is based out of our London office. 

To be considered for this role, applicants must have current work authorization for the country of the role to which they have applied.

What You'll Do:

• Support the Events Director to drive event strategy and development of innovative events across customer segments and business verticals
• Growth and development of new business, identify opportunities for new projects that add value as we continue to expand in EMEA
• New event type concepting, based on client’s priority growth areas and customers’ need
• Crafting overall event experience for customers based on new event type
• Tactical plan development to test, pilot, and measure performance of new event types
• Support in rollout, standardization, and scaling of new event types across multiple markets through detailed event playbooks, event process standardization, and strong cross collaboration between multiple teams
• Event support for all new event types, delivering end-to-end oversight for successful event execution. We focus predominantly on B2B product marketing events, in the following formats:
• Virtual events - mixture of live events, ongoing event programs, studio sessions and remote content 
• In person events - conferences, roundtables, networking events 
• Hybrid events - using our expertise to speak to different audience formats 
• Consistent communication to senior management with updates, status reports, and progress of pilot events against benchmarks and goals
• Relationship management with clients and actively works to build a broader program for the team
• Support collection of appropriate event-related data to assist in post-event evaluations and reporting
• Active participation with extended team to share knowledge and experience
• Mentor, manage, and grow your team across the various events team roles 
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Who we're looking for:

• 8+ years of increasing responsibility executing and managing event programs
• 5+ years experience managing and developing direct reports
• Strategic mindset, with experience developing events programs and piloting new concepts
• Ability to take proven event tactics and execute within new business verticals at scale
• Self-motivated team player who has a proclivity for action
• Knows the industry, with strong connections in their professional network
• Highly-responsive, attentive, and quick to react to new and urgent requests
• Interpersonal skills, a people-person who can quickly form and maintain friendly relationships
• Able to remain calm in high-pressure situations
• Possess a positive, “can-do” attitude
• Exhibit strong time management skills with the ability to re-prioritize tasks on-the-fly to meet unexpected changes in deadlines and deliver on last-minute request
• Exceptional project management skills, with strong attention to detail and organization
• Skilled and experience in project finances - with the ability to scope, manage and reconcile multiple project finances and feed into wider forecasting 
• Technical proficiency, particularly in Google G Suite (docs, slides, sheets)
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills
• Editorial, copywriting and/or basic graphic design skills a plus
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience required
• Current work authorization required

About Media.Monks:

Media.Monks is on a mission to create a new future for this industry. Our vision? Build everything with a belief that changing for good comes from changing who does the work. Yep, that means you. Welcome to the party—one global, cross-cultural collective with a passion for using our skills to create better and a better world. That’s how we’re able to connect the dots between data, content, digital media, and technology from everywhere we are—a true end-to-end model. Joining the Media.Monks collective means having the opportunity to create award-winning work with some of the