For clients such as:-

• The Teacher Development Agency
• Blomfield Group
• Accenture
• Electronic Arts
• Bayer HealthCare
• UKTI

Below are a few of the events I have project managed:-

• Product Launches
• Conferences
• Press Nights
• Workshops
• Exhibition
• Award Ceremonies
• Gala Dinners
• Summer Parties
• Incentive Travel

International Destinations Include:-

• Marbella, Spain
• Athlone, Southern Ireland
• Stirling, Scotland
• Sharm El Sheik, Egypt

Sizes ranging from:-

• Work shops 8 - 20
• Seminars 30 - 60
• Conferences 70 - 1000
• Award Ceremonies 600 - 1000

I was responsible for undertaking all operations and logistics as well as marketing and PR end to end:-

• Full operational and logistical responsibility for event preparation
• running each event from the set-up of the venue to clear up, breakdown and post-event reporting
• Venue finding and selection
• Coordination of branded literature
• Coordination of marketing and promotional materials to target audience etc.
• Building internal and external relationships, dealing with all event enquiries
• Management of the P&L Account; ensuring all expenditure is accounted for and produce post event reports which include staff hours, cash report, beverage stock
• Coordinating catering requirements

Specialist publishing and events company aimed at healthcare professionals in the area of diabetes and its complications.

Project: Series of Bayer Diabetes HealthCare – 14 UK Regional Roadshows 40 – 60 delegates

• Event production end to end, venue finding and selection
• Coordination of buffet lunch and selection/private dining area allocated
• On site management of each roadshow, facilitating Q&A sessions
• Management account reporting function including gross profit reporting and monitoring profit margins
• Identifying and securing leading industry speakers for conferences and workshops
• Delegate managements, devising bespoke branded delegate packs
• Speaker Management, ensuring all speaker requirements are met at the events including AV requirements, travel and accommodation and that all their materials are submitted on time to be inserted within the conference abstract book, briefing speakers, preparing materials including presentations

UK’s premier, specialist publisher providing Britain’s Black and Asian communities a choice of weekly newspapers, quarterly and annual magazines and publications, radio, websites, career & recruitment exhibitions and seminars. The Ethnic Media Group also organises and hosts a number of prestigious awards events each year recognising achievers in the various sections of the minority ethnic communities.

Events Manager & Head of Recruitment Advertising – both roles simultaneously
Being the sole Conference/Events/Exhibitions Manager at the Ethnic Media Group my role encompassed the Marketing, PR, Advertising, Sales, Logistics’ and Event Management of all events, conferences, seminars, workshops and exhibitions. My responsibilities included the following:

Events Manager
Logistics
• Creating all event programmes/Coordinating Road Shows/Conferences/Gala Dinners/ Exhibitions - organising printing and sending out of presentations as well as creating and updating attendee lists
• Identifying and securing leading industry speakers for conferences and workshops
• Dealing with all event enquiries, quotations, bookings
• Dealing with counter parties from clients to insurers, from agencies to lighting specialists
• Management account reporting function including gross profit reporting and monitoring profit margins
• Data management via Excel & Access application
• Full operational and logistical responsibility for event preparation; running of each event from the set-up of the venue to clear up, breakdown and post-event reporting
• Management of the P&L Account; ensuring all expenditure is accounted for and produce post event reports which include staff hours, cash report, beverage stock
• report, security log, equipment stock report, hired equipment report and any necessary health and safety report
• Dealing directly with all exhibitors at each event and handling any special requirements and floor plans
Marketing
• Create and supervise event advertising, strategic partnerships and press
• Develop industry contacts, attend networking events
• Identifying the event/conference target audience
• Creation of all marketing materials, posters, flyers, press releases, website edit
• Update the website ensuring up to the minute industry information is provided at all times
Sales
• Composing sponsorship and client pitches for all events
• Achieving event sales and marketing targets
• Monitoring sales administration and monitoring event-reporting system
• Creating leads for sales team



Head of Recruitment Advertising

• Managing the recruitment team, ensuring weekly and monthly recruitment advertising targets are met
• Putting monthly recruitment advertising sales features together
• Planning further strategic development for the recruitment advertising department

Events company that specialises in Defence, Six Sigma, Oil, Gas and Energy, Pharmaceutical and Health Care conferences with up to 500+ attending events, seminars and one to one meetings.

At IQPC my role encompassed all aspects of customer and speaker care and also ensure the event logistics ran smoothly on the day. My responsibilities included the following:

• liasing with the conference producers to establish the event’s profile
• handling customer enquiries /registering delegates on to IQPC's conferences
• providing efficient administrative preparation prior to events
• onsite set up at conferences/ considering health and safety at all times
• achieving all budgetary targets and requirements that I had set for events
• ensuring that the revenue for delegate's attendance fees have been received
• arranging the conference venue set-up/selecting the appropriate lunch menu
• ensuring event financial records are accurate and up to date
• organising suitable conference venues, whether it be in the UK or overseas appropriate conference venues
• informing caterers of lunch numbers or any special requirements
• promoting events as best as possible/issuing free press passes for events
• all speaker requirements are met at the events including AV requirements, travel and accommodation and that all their materials are submitted on time to be inserted within the conference workbook
• ensuring all speaker biographies and presentations are on CD ROM in time for the event
• ensuring that the correct number of workbooks are printed and are at the conference venue on time
• converting speaker materials to PDF format and are placed on the event upload site allowing paying delegates who were not able to attend the event the opportunity to view the presentations that where given on the day of the event