Senior Strategy Manager (JR101142)

Description

At Clarion, our people are at the absolute heart of what we do. We’re proud that our core values of PASSION, CARE, IMAGINATION, and TRUST define the way we carry out our work across all of our exhibitions and conferences.

If you share our values and want to be a part of a successful, dynamic, and creative global business, then we want to hear from you.

The Opportunity

Clarion Events is undergoing an incredibly exciting period of transformation and change - we recognise the need to become more data-driven in everything we do and have big ambitions to diversify our revenue model and launch new digital products and experiences that delight our audiences. Clarion Digital Media was created as a sub-division in 2023 to support this mission. Our remit is to identify and launch new digital media, membership and subscription offerings that will future proof the business and transform our offline model.

We are seeking an experienced Senior Strategy Manager to join our Strategy & Transformation team on this journey. Reporting into the Director, you will lead on defining our future digital business model and play a pivotal role in developing our 5-year growth plan across the 11 verticals we currently operate in, including Defence, Gaming, Energy, Retail & Home, Technology, Electronics, Enthusiast, Digital Marketing, Fashion, Life Sciences and Public Safety.

The ideal candidate will be someone who is enthusiastic, ambitious and a strategic thinker. You will bring your own ideas to the business - helping to shape the experience of our customers as part of a forward-thinking team.

Key Responsibilities:

Growth Strategy & Strategic Planning

• Identify and evaluate new business opportunities across each of our portfolios, based on an assessment of market trends, the competitor landscape and consumer demand for digital product.
• Conduct financial modelling to project potential revenue and profit attached to various strategic initiatives.
• Support with the development of Clarion Digital Media’s 3-year strategic plan, ensuring that we are focusing efforts on the most impactful growth initiatives.
• Manage the strategic roadmap and articulate key priorities for the year.
• Identify potential strategic partnerships, acquisitions, and market entry strategies to help accelerate our growth plan.
• Provide strategic recommendations and business cases to senior management to unlock additional investment as necessary, effectively communicating the value proposition and potential outcomes.

Market Analysis and Competitive Benchmarking

• Conduct market research to stay updated on digital trends, emerging technologies, regulatory changes and market dynamics that may impact the company’s commercial strategies.
• Track the competitive landscape, sharing news on market moves & their implications for Clarion.
• Conduct benchmarking to compare our capabilities with industry best practices and competitive benchmarks to identify areas for development.

Stakeholder Management

• Collate information and distil data into clear insights and compelling communications for senior stakeholders to inform data-driven decision making.
• Present senior management with regular updates on progress of key strategic initiatives, and ensure risks and issues are surfaced in a timely manner.
• Prepare for key strategy days (Board, ELT, Division) with agenda, meeting design, materials consolidation, quality control, involvement of key stakeholders, logistics and execution.

Requirements

Knowledge, Skills & Behaviours:

• Experience in commercial strategy or strategy consulting.
• Experience in digital media, strategic planning and/or tech preferred.
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills with the ability to gather, analyse, and interpret data and information to develop actionable insights and recommendations.
• Proactive approach with the ability to ‘opportunity spot’ without always being directed
• Natural ability to solve problems and think creatively.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including ability to synthesize information and articulate complex ideas clearly and effectively to diverse audiences.
• Strong organisational and planning skills, with proven ability to work independently.
• Ability to adjust to multiple tasks and demands and constantly shifting priorities under tight deadlines and time constraints.
• Ability to work across different levels of the business to drive projects forward and to problem solve.
• Ability to build strong working relationships with stakeholders across levels and across the business
• High attention to detail.

Values:

The Gaming team is a group of enthusiastic individuals driven by the following values:

We love the unexpected:

• We’re adventurous and willing to try new things
• We embrace and drive change
• We aim to surprise and delight

We’re open and happy to share:

• We engage with stakeholders outside the event
• We build sharing communities
• We embrace others’ ideas

We’re committed to caring:

• We take personal responsibility to get things done
• We always think about every step of the experience
• We strive to understand and meet customers’ needs

We continuously learn:

• We actively seek inspiration from all quarters
• We constantly strive to improve what we do and how we do it
• We help learning lead to growth

About Clarion Events

Clarion Events is one of the world’s leading event organisers, producing and delivering innovative and market-leading events since 1947. (https://clarionevents.com/welcome)

Clarion Events embrace diversity and equal opportunities in all that we do. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. The more inclusive we are, the better our work will be.

Clarion is private equity backed and owned by Blackstone. Blackstone is one of the world’s leading global investment funds, investing capital for the long term in order to build successful, resilient businesses. (https://www.blackstone.com/)

Our purpose is to deliver exceptional customer outcomes and experiences, by making every connection count.

Our vision is we want every one of our products to be a market leader in customer satisfaction and delight.

Benefits

• 25 days’ holiday plus bank holidays
• End of year wellbeing shutdown (closed for the last week of the year)
• Celebration day off (e.g. birthday, Diwali, Eid, etc)
• Summer Hours in August (3pm finish on Fridays)
• Helping Our World (HOW) Days – one paid day per quarter to carry out charity work
• Pension Scheme
• Private Medical Insurance
• Health Cash Plan
• Wellbeing Library (MYNDUP)
• Mentoring Programme
• Subsidised Café
• Season Ticket Loan
• Cycle to Work Schemes
• Free on-site gym and shower facilities
• Free eyesight tests
• Free flu vaccination – offered on site once a year for all employees