Events Manager

Job description / Role

Morgan McKinley is currently seeking an Experienced Events Manager to join a Global Events team in Dubai.

The successful candidate will need to have come from the financial service industry with a great understanding of a financial and investment sales floor. You will be responsible for strategy, planning, execution and measurement.

Key Responsibilities:
- Sets the events strategy for the Middle East Region based on the business priorities
- Executes a wide range of small-scale and more complex proprietary, hosted and third party events including, but not limited to training, panels, receptions, tradeshows, conferences
- Ensures successful format development and implementation of third party and proprietary - programs that drive business results
- Integrates event activity with other sales/marketing/ product team priorities to drive consistent brand messaging / integrity across campaign structure
- Works with Marketing and business units to create event opportunities that drive the business forward
- Develops functional relationships with Marketing and/or clients as it relates to specific events
- Ensures compliance to budget, expenses, and reconciliations on a per event basis
- Domestic and international travel may be required

Requirements

- Bachelor Degree qualified
- Solid post-graduate experience event/experiential planning within a global corporate environment or agency
- Moderate skill-level with Microsoft Office (PowerPoint, Excel, and Word)
- Ability to suggest & enhance functionality on event management / tracking systems
- Must have a strong understanding of social media networks
- Ability to effectively lead and influence internal/external partners towards intended and successful results
- Demonstrates the ability to make sound decisions consistent with business needs
- Exhibits strong interpersonal skills and is extremely effective working in a team environment
- Actively addresses issues/conflicts by offering solutions and escalating as needed

About the Company

At Cooper Fitch, we put the customer at the heart of everything we do. We provide recruitment, executive search and human resources advisory services to thousands of clients across the Middle East, we have been delivering services in the region since 1997. Our team is your team, we firmly believe in delivering first class committed search services. It is our mission to help build the best talent in the market. Our services are tailored to your every need, we have spent nearly twenty years developing an extensive database of top tier talent in the region. We also aim to help you protect and retain your people with our world-class assessment, testing and advisory facilities. We provide both valuable market updates and compensation and benefits analysis to complete the full spectrum of human resources services.