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Job description / Role
TGP is a Dubai based company specializing in exhibition stand design and construction, event management, graphics and commercial interiors. TGP draws on the expertise of its divisions to work towards one goal: delivering world-class, commercially successful projects from conception to implementation.
Scope of role: To ensure the successful management of the day-to-day business operations of the TGP events division - working to deliver first class event proposals and events, within budget, to a standard that exceeds client expectations.
Responsibilities:
- Prioritizing project execution and resource allocation.
- Managing manpower allocation for the division – during proposal creation and during implementation of events.
- Onboarding new team members by training them in the team’s processes and best practices.
- Identifying potential manpower schedule complications and finding solutions to solve them.
- Identifying methods to motivate team members, no matter how large the workload.
- Managing team performance to ensure optimum results from all team members and encourage professional development.
- Overseeing the division’s financial management – invoicing, cash flows and budgeting.
- Managing the workload and resource allocation of the division’s design team to ensure fair allocation of work and optimum performance from all staff.
- With the division’s Events Manager, managing multiple events in the UAE throughout the year.
- Supervising client and supplier relationships and on-site event implementation.
- Managing the event budgets and identifying cost saving opportunities.
- Replacing the Head of Events in client meetings, when needed.
- Participating in additional complex projects that require extra assistance when needed.
- Overseeing the operations of proposal development and ensuring that the division's standards of excellence are met.
- Detecting operational inefficiencies in the division and implementing new processes/best practice to counter this.
Requirements
- Project management expertise
- The ability to interact pleasantly with team members and colleagues and previous experience managing a multicultural team.
- Excellent Microsoft office (particularly Excel) ability.
- The ability to manage multiple clients simultaneously.
- Excellent time management and leadership skills.
- Excellent communication and organization skills.
- Excellent negotiation skills to effectively deal with suppliers and clients.
- Ability and willingness to work long hours and over weekends when an event requires so.
- Previous event agency experience is preferred.
About the Company
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