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Event Director – Live Experience & Events
Right Formula. Lead the development and delivery of complex, high-profile events and live experience programmes .
Core Competencies
Role fitCore Competencies
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Demonstrates expertise in leading complex events and live experiences, with a strong focus on client objectives, event strategy, and stakeholder management. Proven ability to manage multidisciplinary teams, budgets, and deliver high-profile projects successfully.
Highest-signal resume keywords
Event StrategyStakeholder ManagementBudget ManagementOnsite DeliveryTeam Leadership
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Hard Skills
Event PlanningLogistics ManagementExperience DesignProject ManagementRisk Management
Soft Skills
Communication SkillsProblem-SolvingDecision-MakingNegotiation SkillsOrganizational Skills
Industry Keywords
Experiential ProgrammesHigh-Profile EventsCommercial PerformanceSupplier NegotiationsSports Events
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Lead the development and delivery of complex, high-profile events and live experience programmes
- Translate client objectives into compelling, achievable event experiences
- Provide senior event expertise from project inception through delivery
- Establish event objectives, experience principles, priorities and success measures
- Oversee event planning, logistics, guest experience, stakeholder requirements, schedules and onsite delivery
- Provide senior onsite leadership and act as a key decision-maker and escalation point
- Manage risks, dependencies and challenges throughout the project lifecycle
- Lead post-event evaluation and translate learnings into improvements
- Build and maintain senior-level client and stakeholder relationships
- Lead senior client meetings, presentations, event reviews and decision-making sessions
- Lead multidisciplinary event teams and mentor Event Managers, Event Executives and wider LEE team members
- Support resource planning and team structuring
- Take senior responsibility for event budgets, costs and commercial performance
- Lead or support supplier negotiations
- Contribute event expertise to pitches, proposals and new business opportunities
- Identify repeatable event models and new commercial opportunities
Requirements
What you’ll need- Significant experience leading complex events, live experiences, experiential programmes or a related agency environment
- Proven experience managing large-scale or high-profile events from strategy and planning through to onsite delivery
- Strong senior client and stakeholder management skills
- Excellent understanding of event strategy, experience design, logistics and onsite delivery
- Experience managing and developing multidisciplinary teams
- Strong commercial understanding, including budgets, suppliers, scope and project profitability
- Excellent communication, presentation and negotiation skills
- Strong problem-solving and decision-making skills, particularly in high-pressure environments
- Ability to manage complex projects with multiple stakeholders, workstreams and competing priorities
- Strategic and commercially minded approach
- Highly organised, calm and solutions-focused
- Willingness and ability to travel and work onsite as required
- Experience within sports, F1, experiential or premium brand environments would be advantageous
Benefits
Comp & perks- Private health insurance
- Contributory pension scheme
- Annual discretionary bonus scheme
- Enhanced maternity leave
- Individual training budget
- Hybrid working arrangement