Event Manager (Business Development)

About the role

This is more than an execution role. You’ll own both sides of the business: bringing in clients and delivering great events for them. If you have solid agency experience, thrive in a fast-paced environment and want a role where your earnings grow with the business you bring in, we’d like to talk.

Key responsibilities

• Bring in new business by prospecting, pitching and closing event projects with corporate, government and statutory board clients
• Grow and manage your own client portfolio, building long-term relationships and repeat business
• Execute events from start to finish, from concept, proposal and budgeting through vendor management, on-site delivery and post-event reporting
• Prepare proposals, quotations and tender submissions, including GeBIZ opportunities
• Work with the group’s manpower and production teams to deliver events efficiently and profitably
• Help shape the growth strategy of MCI Events & Productions

About you

• At least 5 years of working experience in an event management agency
• Confident in your ability to bring in clients and generate new business
• Able to execute projects from start to finish, from proposal and planning through on-site delivery and post-event wrap-up
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment and juggling multiple projects and deadlines
• Entrepreneurial, self-driven and results-oriented, comfortable owning targets and building something
• Strong commercial sense across budgeting, costing, pricing and profitability
• Experience with government or statutory board clients and GeBIZ tenders is a strong plus

About us

MCI Events & Productions is the event management arm of the MCI Group of Companies, a Singapore group with businesses in recruitment, outsourcing, consulting, aviation and events. We deliver events for government agencies, statutory boards, grassroots organisations and corporates, backed by the group’s in-house manpower and staffing capability.

Benefits

• Competitive basic salary plus attractive, uncapped commission or incentives tied to the business you bring in
• Opportunity to play a key role in building and scaling the events arm
• The backing of an established group with in-house manpower, staffing and operations resources
• Direct access to senior management and room to shape your role

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