Responsibilities

• Deliver the first event within 90 days of joining, then one a quarter: a research reveal, operator panels, sponsor-hosted roundtables, and nobody selling from the stage
• Run the live benchmark and research poll with the marketing team so every event produces a report
• Secure a host brand each quarter for speaking slots etc.
• Own the run of show and the day itself, from set-up to breakdown
• Build and work a pipeline of agencies and SaaS platforms, one sponsor per category per event, closing standard-rate deals yourself and supporting the founder on the larger ones
• Work to a soft season sponsorship target (£60k in year one)
• Deliver everything a sponsor is promised: roundtable, 1:1 meetings, podcast episode, data cut and opt-in leads
• Run each sponsor debrief so it ends with a season renewal and a conversation about their own event with Waye
• Recruit 60 brand-side ecommerce decision-makers per event through sponsor invitations, the research poll, personal outbound and paid promotion
• Run approval-based registration

Requirements

• 3+ years delivering B2B events end to end, ideally in an agency, SaaS or professional-services setting
• A track record of running events on the day, not just planning them, at anything from 30-person dinners to 200+ summits
• Experience selling or account-managing sponsors or partners, and following through on what was promised
• Comfortable with outbound: you'll build lists and send personal invitations to sponsors, merchants and speakers every week
• Experience managing budgets you didn't set, and reporting spend clearly
• Confidence sourcing and negotiating with venues and suppliers, including outside the UK
• Calm, organised and direct under pressure; you'd rather flag a problem early than fix it quietly late
• Able to travel regularly across the UK and Europe, with occasional US trips

Preferred

• Knowledge of the ecommerce ecosystem: brands, agencies and the platform partner world
• Experience running events in non-venue spaces such as warehouses, studios or stores, and the safety and insurance that go with them
• Speaker programming, research or content curation experience
• Familiarity with event tech (registration, CRM or email tools) and podcast or video capture
• A second European language

Benefits

• What you get
• £36,000 to £39,000 depending on experience, plus OTE bonus
• Fully remote, permanent PAYE role. Work from wherever suits you in the UK
• Direct exposure to campaign strategy, not just execution
• A small team where your work is visible and your ideas get used
• Clients who are genuinely good at what they do, in a sector that's interesting to work in
• Modern tooling and a team that automates the boring stuff