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Leads divisional growth and sales performance while personally managing strategic accounts, prospecting, negotiating, and closing complex deals. Coaches and develops sales teams, oversees pipelines and forecasts, supports event sales planning, grows renewals and account value, and contributes to broader commercial strategy. The role focuses on B2B enterprise sales for exhibitions, sponsorships, integrated marketing solutions, and event-related products.

Leads sponsor operations for Shoptalk and Groceryshop events across the USA, overseeing planning, budgets, floorplans, sponsor deliverables, onsite execution, supplier relationships, and post-event reviews. Manages and develops the US Event Operations team, coordinates cross-functional stakeholders, improves operational processes, and supports profitable sponsorship opportunities. The role requires strong project leadership, commercial judgment, communication, problem-solving, and flexibility to travel and work onsite during events.

Manages sponsorship delivery for Shoptalk and Groceryshop, coordinating sponsor activations, vendors, venues, contractors, budgets, timelines, production schedules, and onsite execution. Leads sponsored events, lounges, awards programs, content features, and special event elements from procurement through breakdown. Collaborates with sales, attendee experience, event leadership, and sponsors while troubleshooting onsite issues and ensuring sponsor benefits, customer experience, and operational quality. Requires event management experience, strong project coordination, spreadsheet skills, and travel to events.

Manage the graphic production pipeline for Shoptalk events, tracking creative projects, deadlines, approvals, vendor lead times, and asset delivery in Monday.com. Create print, digital, social, signage, and environmental graphics from approved templates; prepare proofs and print-ready files; maintain file standards, version control, and archives. Coordinate with creative, marketing, operations, and external production partners to prioritize requests, meet schedules and budgets, and support high-volume batch workflows and on-site event execution.

Own sponsorship marketing for three US health technology events, including prospect data, lead-generation campaigns, nurture, MQL qualification, sales handoff, CRM data quality, pipeline reporting, rebooking, sponsor success, and cross-brand coordination. Manage event sponsorship pages, campaign budgets, agencies, sales enablement materials, and performance optimization. The role requires hands-on Salesforce, HubSpot, spreadsheet, data enrichment, analytics, and B2B marketing expertise.

Owns sponsorship marketing and demand generation for Hyve’s U.S. health technology events. Responsibilities include building prospect data, running nurture and outbound campaigns, qualifying and handing off leads, maintaining Salesforce and HubSpot data, reporting pipeline and revenue attribution, supporting sponsor renewals, developing sales enablement materials, managing event sponsorship pages, coordinating cross-brand campaigns, and overseeing marketing budgets and agencies.

Leads global HR operations across the UK, USA, and Asia, managing shared services, payroll, benefits, employee lifecycle processes, HR policies, HR systems, people analytics, and governance reporting. The role partners with senior HR stakeholders, supports compensation and benefits cycles, delivers board-level insights, and drives an efficient, data-informed employee experience.

Owns creative production from approved design through installation for large-scale retail events. Responsibilities include managing production files, signage, wayfinding, scenic and experiential assets, print partners, fabricators, schedules, budgets, proofs, installations, and asset archives. The role partners with creative, operations, and general contractors, provides design support, resolves show-floor issues, and attends all four annual events during build and show days.

Manages sponsorship delivery for Shoptalk and Groceryshop, coordinating sponsors, vendors, venues, contractors, activations, special events, budgets, schedules, and onsite execution. Leads sponsorship projects from RFP and procurement through event breakdown, supports Meetup Program execution, maintains operational documentation, and troubleshoots sponsor requirements onsite. Requires strong project management, communication, spreadsheet, logistics, and multitasking skills, with travel to assigned events and hybrid NYC office work.

Supports global HR operations as a first point of contact for employee queries, onboarding, offboarding, employee changes, benefits administration, records maintenance, compliance, reporting, and HR technology. Partners with HR, talent acquisition, payroll, IT, facilities, and finance teams, contributes to HR projects and culture initiatives, and helps improve HR processes and automation.