Event Director (JR101215)

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 reflect 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 Digital Marketing Division is the home of market-leading brands: Traffic & Conversion Summit, Affiliate Summit and Creator Economy Live.

We have an exciting opportunity for someone to lead on the strategy, planning and project management for Affiliate Summit which is the biggest affiliate marketing event in the world (Affiliate Summit East and Affiliate Summit West), attracting thousands of attendees from the US and around the globe.

Our events are not your typical conference so you won’t see many grey suits! We bring together mass publishes, affiliates, SMEs, bloggers, Instagram influencers and the world’s largest ecommerce brands. As consumer behaviours evolve and EVERYBODY is now shopping online our events continue to grow at double digit rates.

Key Responsibilities:

• Overall responsibility for the day-to-day management of the P&L performance for Affiliate Summit.
• Producing regular financial forecasts for Affiliate Summit events.
• Delivers on and upholds the value proposition and business plan for Affiliate Summit, through a mixture of quantitative and qualitative research and analysis, together with the content team.
• Utilises customer insights to improve sponsor, exhibitor and attendee experience.
• Project manages live event delivery, bringing together all functions (marketing, customer success, sales and operations), ensuring a solid path to a successful event.
• Understands key segments and drivers to reflect them into the direction of the business.
• Monitors strengths and weaknesses in competition and identifying the USPs for our events and digital products.
• Working with the Head of Sales to implement the key account strategy on Affiliate Summit.
• Main relationships with Affiliate Summit key customers, building relationships with potential customers who are strategically important for the brand.

Knowledge, Skills & Behaviours:

• Proven experience in a similar role managing a large scale festival/conference or exhibition.
• Passionate and knowledgeable about digital marketing.
• Experience in managing and building customer relationships.
• Experience working in the North American events market is desirable.
• Demonstrates a commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion through continuous development, modelling inclusive behaviours and proactively managing bias.
• Curious, humble and a relentless will to improve.
• Customer centric and feedback obsessed.

Values:

The unique culture and identity of the Digital marketing division values are: 

• We are committed to learning & improvement 
• We are feedback obsessed 
• We love our customers 
• We celebrate mistakes 

About Clarion Events

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

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. (https://www.blackstone.com/)

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.

• 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
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) – a 24/7, 365-day confidential helpline
• 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