JOB SUMMARY

The Executive for B2B Events, APEC & China reports to the Senior Manager, B2B Events – APEC & China and supports with the planning, preparation and execution of primarily MILUX customer events and participation of key trade shows for the Global Sales Organization (GSO) across Asia Pacific (APAC).

CANDIDATE PROFILE
Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree preferred
• Minimum 4 years of professional experience in event management, preferably corporate and special events in the luxury industry, with good knowledge of various current event management tools, web-based event systems and mobile event applications in market.
• Good exposure and understanding on use of trending social media applications and channels of different markets would be bonus e.g. WeChat in China.
• Well versed in communicating with stakeholders and vendors in Mandarin (both spoken and written) 

Skills and Competencies

• Self-driven personality that takes a proactive, hands-on approach when comes to problem solving
• Confident and enthusiastic with strong passion towards event conceptualization, planning and production to execution
• Has eye for details and ability to perceive and approach with big picture in mind at the same time
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Ability to stay focused and calm under pressure
• Ability to handle multiple events simultaneously and takes ownership of work
• Ability to manage time and prioritize workload well
• A team player and able to work independently at the same time 

CORE WORK ACTIVITIES

• Supports and works closely with the Global Sales Team
• Understand the objectives, requirements and deliverables for their luxury events and be able to ideate, formulate and propose how their events can be
• Lead the conceptualization, planning and production, execution to closing of the luxury events, with use of vendors where required
• Manages communication and relation with internal and external stakeholders
• Provides timely updates and reports to respective internal stakeholders
• Manages vendors and negotiates pricing for cost effectiveness with event budgets
• Travel within Asia Pacific potentially required

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