Description
Trade Show Manager - 12 Month Fixed Term Contract
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The Role:
We are seeking an experienced and highly skilled Trade Show Manager to temporarily lead the planning, execution, and post-show analysis of high-profile UK and EU trade shows and events.
What will I be doing?
The ideal candidate will bring experience in managing large-scale trade shows with a focus on driving brand visibility, lead generation, and business development.
This role requires strong leadership abilities, strategic thinking, and project management skills to ensure flawless execution and maximum return on investment.
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This position will support and deliver Tier 1, 2 and 3 trade shows from 1 August 2025 through 31 July 2026. The selected candidate will shadow and support the current International Trade Show Manager during August and September 2025 and assume full responsibilities starting in October 2025.
The role will include:
- Collaborate with Communications, Marketing, and Growth teams to create a comprehensive trade show strategy that aligns with overall business goals
High-Level Event Management and Onsite Leadership:
- Ensure all aspects of event planning, execution, and after-action meet the highest standards, delivering a seamless experience for customers, partners, and internal stakeholders
- Manage assigned corporate and group-funded trade shows, delivering shows that meet defined objectives, on schedule and within budget
- Follow established corporate trade show policies and procedures and brand guidelines
- Build individual trade show budgets, track costs, and process payments
- Establish and manage to conference and vendor milestones and deadlines
- Coordinate show logistics, booth design and layout
- Collaborate with internal business leads, marketing, creative, external vendors and exhibitor organizations, to deliver an on-brand booth that meets business and marketing objectives
- Work with business leads to establish and moderate planning calls
- Work with business and marketing leads to execute show themes, align demos and capabilities, and secure technology and services that meet requirements
- Provide logistics oversight and booth management during run-of-show
- Work with the business to select strategic booth locations
- Research, select, and procure promotional giveaways
- Conduct housing block negotiation, if required
- Complete conference registrations
- Arrange hospitality events tied to shows
- Work with corporate security to communicate safety and security plan; serve as safety POC while onsite
- Manage on-site booth install/dismantle
- Collect and disseminate business leads to marketing
- Leverage meeting planning tools to schedule and track related meetings
- Create post-show survey and facilitate debrief
- Create executive summary for Tier 1 shows
Vendor and Partner Relations:
- Manage relationships with exhibit house, show management and associations to ensure seamless quality and experience
- Manage vendor relationships (exhibit design, shipping, contractors) and ensure all components are delivered on time and within budget
Advanced Marketing Integration:
- Drive cross-channel marketing initiatives in partnership with the Branding, Creative, Communications and Marketing teams to enhance pre-show and post-show engagement
Performance Reporting & Optimization:
- Analyze event performance and outcomes, including attendee engagement and lead generation
- Lead post-event debriefs to identify areas for improvement, including developing data-driven recommendations to optimize future event participation
- Maintain and report KPIs related to event ROI, lead acquisition, and brand reach
What does Leidos need from me?
- Experience managing large-scale, high-profile trade shows and events, with a proven track record of leading successful, results-driven initiatives
- Strong leadership and decision-making skills, with the ability to mentor and lead cross-functional teams
- Expertise in project management, vendor negotiation, and contract management at a high level
- Exceptional communication, collaboration, and presentation skills
- Bachelor's degree in Events Management or Hospitality Management or equivalent, or BTEC-Level 3
It would be desirable if you had:
- Experience in defence, technology, and healthcare markets
- Demonstrated expertise in leading trade shows for a medium to large organisation
Pre-Screening Requirements:
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Leidos UK! Join our team and discover a culture of collaboration, innovation, diversity, trust, caring management, communication transparency, work-life balance, and overall job satisfaction.
What we do for you:
At Leidos we are PASSIONATE about customer success, UNITED as a team and INSPIRED to make a difference. We offer meaningful and engaging careers, a collaborative culture, and support for your career goals, all while nurturing a healthy work-life balance.
We provide an employment package that attracts, develops and retains only the best in talent. Our reward scheme includes:
• Contributory Pension Scheme
• Private Medical Insurance
• 33 days Annual Leave (including public and privilege holidays)
• Access to Flexible benefits (including life assurance, health schemes, gym memberships, annual buy and sell holidays and a cycle to work scheme)
• Dynamic Working
Commitment to Diversity:
We welcome applications from every part of the community and are committed to a truly diverse and inclusive culture. We foster a sense of belonging, welcoming all perspectives and contributions, and providing equal access to opportunities and resources for everyone. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages please let us know, and we will respond in a way that best fits your needs.
Who We Are:
Leidos UK & EUROPE - we work to make the world safer, healthier, and more efficient through technology, engineering and science.
Leidos is a growing company delivering innovative technology and solutions focused on safeguarding critical capabilities and transformation in frontline services, our work in the United Kingdom includes addressing some of the most complex problems in defence, healthcare, government, safety and security, and transportation.
What Makes Us Different:
Purpose: you can use your passion and abilities at Leidos to keep the people you care about safe. We are at the forefront of machine learning, AI, cyber security and solutions. Using your skills in the technology frontline by helping to build a safer world. You can inspire change.
Collaboration: having flexibility to do your job is one of our core benefits, enabling you to become part of our extraordinary team. We have been empowering our people to work flexibly for years. Whether you work from home, the office or on customer sites, we will give you the digital tools and the flexibility to work smarter and align your needs and ours.
People: Leidos empowers people from every background to be themselves and gives you the tools to learn new skills by enabling growth whilst developing. We believe that extraordinary people need opportunities to grow, to be inspired and to inspire others. At Leidos, we invest in technical academies, career rotations and a career development plans that enhance your future.
Original Posting:
For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.
Pay Range:
Pay Range £40,600.00 - £61,100.00
The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.
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