Event Manager – CardzCon
Doha, Qatar
Are you an experienced event professional who can bring people, brands, and communities together?
We’re looking for an Event Manager to lead the end-to-end planning and delivery of CardzCon—our trading card, collectibles, and pop culture event. This hands-on role combines event operations with sponsorship acquisition, exhibitor sales, and commercial growth.
Key Responsibilities
- End-to-End Event Management: Lead the full event lifecycle, from concept, budgeting, and planning through setup, live delivery, dismantling, and post-event review.
- Sponsorships & Partnerships: Identify and approach potential sponsors, develop proposals and packages, negotiate agreements, and ensure all sponsorship commitments are delivered.
- Venue Management: Assess venues, negotiate booking terms, and coordinate floor plans, facilities, access, setup, and operational requirements.
- Exhibitor Management: Drive exhibitor participation and booth sales, manage agreements and requirements, and maintain strong relationships with participating brands and retailers.
- Vendors & Suppliers: Source, evaluate, negotiate with, and manage event agencies, contractors, production teams, AV providers, logistics, security, catering, and other suppliers.
- Budgets & Revenue: Prepare and monitor budgets, track sponsorship, exhibitor, and ticketing revenue, control costs, and report against agreed financial targets.
- Event Programming: Coordinate tournaments, guest appearances, workshops, activations, and other experiences that engage the CardzCon community.
- Marketing & Ticketing: Work with the marketing team on promotional campaigns, ticket sales, registration, and event communications.
- On-Site Operations: Lead event-day delivery, including staffing, visitor flow, exhibitor support, guest services, and timely resolution of issues.
- Team Coordination: Manage timelines and responsibilities across internal teams, external partners, temporary staff, and volunteers.
- Approvals & Safety: Coordinate permits, approvals, insurance, safety requirements, and contingency plans with relevant parties.
- Performance Reporting: Review attendance, financial results, sponsor outcomes, and attendee feedback to improve future events.
What We’re Looking For
- Proven experience independently managing exhibitions, conventions, festivals, or large-scale consumer events.
- A strong track record in securing sponsorships, partnerships, and exhibitors.
- Hands-on experience managing venues, vendors, suppliers, budgets, and event operations.
- Strong negotiation, communication, organization, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to manage multiple stakeholders and deadlines and take ownership of results.
- Excellent English communication skills; Arabic is an advantage.
- Qatar/GCC event experience and an established network of sponsors and suppliers are preferred.
- An interest in trading cards, gaming, collectibles, or pop culture is an advantage.
- Flexibility to work evenings and weekends and travel when required.
