Commercial Director

We are looking for an experienced Commercial Director to join one of the asembl.group partner companies and play a key role in the next stage of its growth, while helping to develop and maximise the commercial opportunities available through the wider asembl.group.

This is a senior leadership opportunity for someone with strong commercial credentials and experience in the events industry who is looking for something broader than a traditional sales leadership role.

The Role

Working as part of the company’s existing Senior Leadership Team, you will take the lead on commercial growth and performance, with responsibility across:

• Commercial strategy and profitable growth
• Sales and marketing leadership
• New client acquisition and existing account growth
• Key client and strategic partner relationships
• Pricing, margins and commercial forecasting
• Identifying new markets and revenue opportunities
• Developing and leveraging commercial opportunities across the wider Asembl Group
• Working closely with Operations, Project Management and Finance to align commercial opportunity with successful delivery
• Turning strategic ideas and opportunities into clear plans and ensuring they are delivered

We are looking for someone who can lead people, build relationships and drive commercial performance, but who also thinks beyond their own function and understands what it takes to run a successful business.

The Person

You are likely to be an established commercial leader within the events industry or a closely related sector, with a strong network and a proven track record of delivering profitable growth.

You’ll be a confident people leader and communicator, commercially astute and highly organised, with a natural ability to bring people together, create momentum and get things done.

Importantly, you’ll have the ambition to develop beyond a purely commercial leadership role and take on broader business responsibility over time.

The Opportunity

This is deliberately more than a conventional Commercial Director role.

We are looking for someone who can make an immediate commercial impact, become an important part of the leadership of the business and progressively take on broader responsibility as both the individual and the business develop.

For the right person, there is a genuine opportunity for the role to progress towards General Manager and potentially Managing Director.

We also envisage the successful individual having the opportunity to participate in a growth share arrangement, linked to the achievement of agreed business and personal milestones, providing the opportunity to share in the value they help to create.

If you’re an ambitious commercial leader who wants the opportunity to eventually run a business rather than simply run a commercial function, we’d be interested in talking.