Your mission
Our dynamic and enthusiastic Event Production team in Dubai is expanding, and we’re looking for a Director of Event Production unit to lead, manage, and further develop the business unit. If you’re ready to take on a challenge, showcase your leadership skills in a fast-paced environment, and help scale a rapidly growing team, we’d love to hear from you!
We expect you to:
- Lead, decide and take responsibility for the business unit.
- Develop, propose and execute business unit plans and strategies.
- Control business plans and strategies execution as well as key performance indicators.
- Be accountable for achieving the qualitative and quantitative business unit objectives.
- Play part in business development and sales activities.
- Be a responsible spokesman to the General Management.
- Take responsibility for ensuring that all processes run flawlessly and that the day-to-day business operates efficiently and smoothly.
- Drive change, develop new ideas, create future vision.
- Be an administrative line manager for business unit team.
- Develop and coordinate strategies to acquire new business and grow the market share.
- Act as a key account for existing and new clients.
- Promote cross-selling between BeWunder business units.
- Develop and coordinate marketing plans and strategies together with the Marketing team.
You will also be responsible for:
- Management / decision-making / responsibility for the economic and operational results of the business unit.
- Development / design of the business unit.
- Budget planning for the business unit in cooperation with business unit team and General Management.
- Financial responsibility for the business unit.
- Responsibility for team members in the business unit.
- Leading the team, processes and procedure improvement initiatives.
- Definition and monitoring of team objectives in collaboration with the team.
- Team motivation and mentoring.
- Resource planning and quality management.
- Communication about developments, decisions, changes in the business unit to the wider team.
- Creation and review of various analyses and statistics.
Your profile
- Proven experience in a senior management role, ideally as Managing Director or similar, in large-scale contracting, event production, exhibition fit-out, or a related field.
- Strong commercial acumen with a track record of driving business growth, securing high-value projects, and delivering profitable results.
- Demonstrated success in leading high-performance production teams, optimising workflows, and implementing operational efficiencies.
- Extensive knowledge of project life cycles in event production, including budgeting, resource allocation, and cost control, with a strong focus on efficiency and quality delivery.
- Excellent leadership, communication, and team-building skills with a strategic mindset.
- Knowledge of the legal and regulatory requirements and frameworks.
You should bring the following competencies:
- Own visionary thinking (future-orientated).
- Entrepreneurial thinking and acting.
- Assertiveness, persuasiveness, enthusiasm (inspire and excite).
- High motivation and sense of responsibility.
- Social competence and strong communication skills (internally and externally).
- Flexibility, agility and pronounced resilience.
- Teambuilder mentality.
- Polite and friendly manner.
- Clear and considered action.
- Solution orientated mindset.
- Confident and authentic.
- Business owner thinking.
Why us?
- Unified CAT A Silver Premium Medical Insurance provided as standard to all team members – yes, you read that correctly, we all enjoy the same insurance category benefits!
- Complimentary lunches provided daily in our Dubai office canteen.
- Team Engagement Initiatives – team-building activities, health and wellness drives, etc.
- Team Socials – team BBQs, season opening and closing parties.
- Worker’s Compensation and Accident Insurance.
- Annual Flight Allowance.
- Recruitment Referral Bonus Scheme for team members who refer successful applicants for our open positions.
- Project Referral Bonus Scheme for team members who refer successful project leads.
- The opportunity to work in an international and multi-cultural team with collaboration across our offices in the Middle East and Europe.
- Collaborative and motivated working environment.
- Trusting and partnership-based cooperation across all units.
- An innovative and growth-oriented company with a matrix organizational structure and an open corporate culture.
