Events & Exhibitions Manager

at  Oxford Instruments plc

At Oxford Instruments, we enable the world’s leading industrial companies and scientific research communities to image, analyse and manipulate materials down to the atomic and molecular level. With a sixty-year history, and fourteen Queen’s Awards for Enterprise, our world-class products and technologies are helping our customers to address the greatest challenges of the 21st century.
How we work
We’re committed to being the leading provider of high-tech products and services for the world’s most important industrial and scientific research communities. Our people are vital to our success. We strive to offer the opportunities that will attract, motivate and retain the very best talent in our sector. This involves creating an inclusive environment and culture, where difference is valued and people are recognized for what they deliver and bring to the team.
Empowering People to Make a Difference
We don’t wait for change to happen. We enable it. That’s why we aim to create the best working environment and culture for our people to thrive. We share the same goals and value diversity of thought, perspective and experience. With a focus on the ongoing development, engagement and wellbeing of our people, we know we will continue to exceed customer expectations and drive change for the future. About the Opportunity:
The Events and Exhibitions Manager drives event strategy, planning, organization, and execution to support the successful creation and/or attendance of events. This high-visibility role is responsible for ensuring OI Americas events presence acts as an extension of the broader marketing regional strategy supporting related marketing goals in terms of leads, ROI, and audience brand preference. The Events Manager is a seasoned professional in planning, managing, and optimizing tradeshow, conference, and regional workshop presence as key channel to support business growth.
This role is highly qualified in planning events, project management, results evaluations, and working with tradeshow agencies, trade and industry organizations, and exhibit centers. The events manager is highly collaborative, with strong strategic and leadership qualities, skilled at leading cross-functional teams across departments, business units, and geographies.

ADDITIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:

Bachelor’s degree
Ability to travel approximately 50-75% to support events, tradeshows, conferences and regional workshops
Understanding of lead capture in the events environment and experience with data to CRM integration
Proven experience of ccoordination, management and oversite of exhibition booth services
Works well in high pressure, results-oriented, deadline intensive environments
Strong collaboration and interpersonal communications skills - Ability to bring teams of people together across departments functions and geographies; creating alignment and able to influence without direct authority
Highly organized with a strong affinity for detail.
No job too big or too small attitude
Proficiency at presenting in both small and group settings
Excellent communication skills in various formats (verbal, ppt, excel, etc.).

Events Strategy – Lead all aspects of tradeshow presence and events management, including Kickoff meetings/goal setting, Project plans, KPIs/reporting, event analytics, messaging, design strategy, event promotions and Budget management, maintains the yearly events calendar for all OI Americas BUs
External Partner Management: Agency management (exhibit, AV, install, conference etc.), Liaison to the industry Association, Contracting including: sponsorships, exhibit space, ancillary event space, vendors & suppliers
Events Logistics Coordinate all aspects of event booth planning including: Operational logistics, instrument plans/shipping, Staff support / housing, Internal communications, event amenities (food, giveaways etc.), Shipping coordination
Event Experience – Planning for a positive brand experience for each attendee. to effectively communicate OIA’s relevant value propositions through the booth experience. Including: Booth layouts, Graphics & messaging, Instrument selection / presence
Event Attendee Engagement: Design the strategy to attract interest and interaction with event attendees including the ability to draw in event floor traffic. Coordinate planning and execution for In-booth talks, Booth staffing, use of Multimedia & content
Lead and Data Management: Own the process to capture attendee data including: lead capture / qualification, lead routing, attendee data uploads to CRM, Demo scheduling, About the Candidate: You are a highly driven, focused on driving results against business objectives, with strong operational and business acumen, and the ability to own the events ffinancial process including budget mgmt., invoicing, reconciliation & reporting, budget forecast planning. Our ideal candidate will have 10+ years of events and exhibition management experience and is highly skilled at project plan development, management, and high-quality execution.