Events & Commercial Executive

3 weeks ago


Stourbridge, United Kingdom Career Development Institute Full time

**Job advert**

**Role title: Events & Commercial Executive**

**Location**:Stourbridge (West Midlands) or home-based within the UK with occasional attendance at the Stourbridge office. Travel across the

UK as required.

**Reports to**:Events & Commercial Manager.

**Primary role function**: Design and delivery of a programme of effective CPD, conferences and events, as well as associated commercial opportunities

(primarily sponsorship and exhibiting) and broader commercial activities including advertising.

**Terms and remuneration**:Full time. Permanent.

Salary £29,000 p.a. plus pension.

**About the CDI**:
The Career Development Institute (CDI) is the UK’s professional body for the career development sector with around 4,900 members. Our purpose is to set standards, advocate for and promote high quality career development for all.

Our members help people develop their career goals and gain the career management skills to achieve them. As well as changing individual lives, the cumulative impact of the millions of careers interventions each year and address social and economic issues such as levelling up, workforce skills shortages and productivity challenges in the economy.

Membership of the CDI brings a variety of benefits, including a wide range of continuous professional development (CPD) training, conferences and events. We work with a wide range of commercial partners, helping promote their brand, services and messages to our extensive audience of careers professionals.

As part of our 2025 strategy, we are launching our new website and CRM platforms, improving engagement with members and stakeholders, as well as creating commercial opportunities for our partners. To realise these opportunities, we have created the Events & Commercial team to deliver excellent CPD support for members and other careers professionals, alongside compelling offers for commercial partners.

**Role summary**:
Career Development Institute Page 1 of 5 June 2019

The Events & Commercial Executive is a new post, created to increase our focus on offering members valuable opportunities to continue their professional development (CPD), combined with generating commercial income that enables us to further invest in our services.

The role holder will be responsible for developing the calendar of CPD webinars to meet the events objectives and support members. They will help manage major conferences and events, ensuring the efficient and effective organisation and running of the events. They will represent the CDI on our stand at third party conferences and exhibitions to promote CDI membership and commercial sales.

The postholder will manage a number of small-to-mid-sized commercial clients to ensure mutually beneficial and sustainable commercial relationships. They will grow the number of commercial partners who take advertising, exhibiting and sponsorship opportunities with the CDI. They will prospect and win new clients for the Careers in Careers jobs board and generate and convert leads for other one-off or ongoing opportunities.

As part of the Events & Commercial team, they will support the development and implementation of new commercial offers, including gathering feedback from existing and prospective commercial partners, testing new ideas, defining delivery processes to ensure efficient delivery to a high standard and securing initial customers for the services.

**Key accountabilities**
- Define the CPD calendar of training events for each period, in line with the goals and themes agreed with the Manager. Agree topics, identify speakers and engage to secure their support.
- Pass to the Administrator to agree details and book events on the system. Occasionally attend sessions to provide technical and facilitation support.
- Manage events workstreams of major CDI conferences and exhibitions and update the overall project plan, working with the Manager. Ensure live venues are booked according to specification, or, with the Administrator, build events on the virtual conference platform (HopIn training can be provided). Lead rehearsals and attend events as on-site lead for speakers, attendees and staff. Edit recordings of virtual and live events as required, ready for publishing.
- Ensure events delivery processes are mapped and embedded to ensure efficient and effective delivery. Review event feedback reports, attendance data and other information to identify improvements to the calendar and delivery processes. Provide regular reports on overall event performance to senior managers.
- Book space at third party events in line with the events plan and project manage CDI attendance - agreeing staff attendance, materials to be provided, promotion our attendance with Marketing and attending as required to staff the CDI stand and engage other exhibitors as potential commercial partners.
- Develop the bespoke training offer, including working with Marketing on materials, updating and maintaining the webpages, agreeing pric



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