Global Strategic Events Assistant Director

About the role

The EY Global Strategic Events and Experience team is seeking an Assistant Director to join the team. This role designs and delivers the brand experience for clients attending EY Events and externally projects the best of the EY brand.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver the brand experience for clients attending EY Events
• Externally project the best of the EY brand
• Navigate complex stakeholder management
• Create linkage and connections to other parts of the business
• Inspire a core team through leadership, relationships, and clear direction
• Assist with the design and delivery of the event as the lynchpin and main point of coordination between all the various workstreams involved in the delivery of their allocated events
• Create a consistent brand experience through all facets of the events
• Ensure brand sign off processes are adhered to across the whole event
• Mentor junior personnel on the strategic events and experiences team to ensure consistent and leading-edge brand experience by capturing and deploying best practices as necessary
• Manage and drive forward the design and delivery of event related technology including complex and detailed registration sites and event apps and work closely with the event technology team
• Form part of multi-functional core teams to deliver events with a culture of high-performance teaming, and achieve market impact by managing the work-plan, timeline and budget of all elements of the programme
• Work closely with Legal, Procurement and Independence to ensure compliance for all events
• Seek connections across all of BMC to bring the best of EY to life (including sector, service lines, regions, and other BMC programs such as World Entrepreneur of the Year, International Tax Conference, Young Tax Professional of the Year, as well as industry/third party, sponsorship events)
• Provide onsite support to manage various external vendors and agencies to ensure consistent delivery for their own events and supporting their colleagues
• Lead and work on some of EY’s innovative global flagship events

Qualifications

• Experience in a cross-border role, successfully managing multiple complex event projects at a global level
• Significant experience of delivering brand, marketing and communications projects in global organizations
• Experience managing diverse teams
• Outstanding communication skills
• High level of influencing and networking skills
• Experience of delivering multiple events on a global basis
• Ability and willingness to be able to travel