54

Event Director

54

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Wimbledon • United Kingdom

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Job Level

Lead

About the role

  • 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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Hard Skills & Tools
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Soft Skills
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