Event Manager for EMEA managing strategies, evaluations, and executions of enterprise - focused events at HappyRobot. Driving brand awareness and engagement with key enterprise audiences.
About the role
- Event Director at 54 managing international events and client relations while leading the delivery team and strengthening partnerships in the sports sector.
Responsibilities
- Lead the development of the event vision, delivery strategy, and detailed execution plans and itineraries.
- Own end-to-end event delivery, ensuring consistently high standards of planning, production, and on-site execution.
- Manage all supplier briefs, contracts, and scopes of work, ensuring commercial and operational alignment.
- Take full ownership of event budgets, forecasting, cost control, and financial reporting.
- Lead, mentor, and manage the 54 event delivery team, fostering a high-performance culture.
- Act as primary liaison with rights holders (Ladies European Tour / European Tour / Asian Tour / LPGA Tour), ensuring strategic and operational alignment.
- Work closely with Marketing to ensure full integration of events within the wider brand and communications strategy.
- Partner with Commercial teams to maximise sponsor value, activation quality, and revenue delivery.
- Lead relationships with broadcasters, ensuring delivery of partner, sponsor, and stakeholder objectives.
- Serve as senior client lead for all delivery matters, owning timelines, governance, and status reporting.
- Chair and lead all client, rights holder, stakeholder, and internal delivery meetings, workshops, and reviews.
- Support negotiation and delivery of host venue agreements and operational requirements.
- Oversee player services, logistics, and negotiations, ensuring best-in-class athlete experience.
- Build and maintain trusted, long-term client relationships at senior stakeholder level.
- Lead strategic client communications, steering delivery governance, conference calls, and review meetings.
- Lead and support the development of high-quality new business pitches, proposals, and presentation decks.
- Drive creative thinking, generating innovative, engaging, and commercially robust event concepts and platforms.
- Provide industry intelligence and strategic insight on prospective clients, partners, and markets for 54.
- Contribute to the design and development of new event properties, platforms, and long-term growth initiatives.
- Provide clear, concise updates to Company Directors and Executive Management on event delivery and client status.
- Produce regular top-line summary reports for the Global Events Director.
- Present confidently and authoritatively to staff and stakeholders in company forums and internal briefings.
Requirements
- Experience within an account management or client services team in an agency environment.
- Knowledge of the international sports and events industry (desirable).
- Proven track record managing key international accounts for high-profile brands.
- Strong understanding of brand, rights holder, and agency ecosystems.
- Advanced experience creating compelling, tailored presentation decks and proposals.
- Confident presenter to senior management and external clients.
- Highly competent in updating, managing, and reporting on live projects and new business pipelines.
- Delivery of agreed event objectives, milestones, and quality standards.
- Team leadership and people management capability
- Professionalism and senior presence within the Events team
- Stakeholder and client relationship management
- Personal drive to improve individual performance and the performance of the wider Events Division
- Active participation in 54 company events, initiatives, and culture-building activities.
Benefits
- Competitive Salary
- Annual Discretionary Company Bonus – up to 8% - 3% Company & 5% Individual
- Pension scheme
- Life Assurance
- Income Protection
- 25 days annual leave (+ public holidays), pro-rated & Birthday off
- Increased annual leave with years of service
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Private Healthcare
- Enhanced Parental Leave
- Staff clothing
- Working hours will be from 09.00 to 17.30 with an hour taken for lunch between 12.00 and 14.00
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