Simon Botfield Email & Phone Number

London, Gb

Durham, Nc, Us

Bristol, England, Gb

Foster City, Ca, Us

Events manager leading on all of MATRIXX Software events held globally. Managing each event end to end, scoping and approval, venue sourcing, negotiation, speaker sourcing, invite campaign, attendee management, sourcing all vendors, and on-site event management and KPI reporting.

Teaneck, New Jersey, Us

Events Planner tasked with scoping, planning, and executing a variety of events across Europe including large scale conferences, and major tradeshows.  Led on a number of key events including Salesforce World Tour, AVM Summit, and Adobe Summit, responsible for all logistics, project plans, and budget management.  Reviewing and sourcing venues across Europe for a wide range of events from small senior client dinners, to large scale conferences. Built up strong relationships with hotel sales and operations contacts across Europe, and particularly in London.  Managed the internal event request and approval application “GER” for Europe and APAC. This involved hosting and running Webex training calls, and liaising with C-Suite stakeholder for regular updates.Led on the FA Wembley Box project from the outset and worked with senior stakeholders on ticket booking and approval processes. Worked with legal and compliance to make sure processes were within compliance guidelines. Also produced the project initiation document for the building of an online ticket booking portal.

London, England, Gb

Project Manager working on Career Transition Solutions, providing outplacement support to a high volume of clients across a number of business sectors. Responsible for managing client experience beginning to end ensuring that they are happy with their programme and reacting to any changes that may need to be made with a focus on a high quality client service.Building and maintaining relationship with customers and clients of all levels. Building knowledge of consultants to ensure clients are matched with the best possible match for their situation. Responsible for providing consultants to deliver Pre-Retirement Workshops across the Civil Service. Responsible for the financial forecasting of all of my customers.Also responsible for a recruitment drive to source a number of suitable consultants in order to increase consultant pool.

London, England, Gb

Events Manager for Capita/Civil Service Learning on HMRC Compliance Skills Development Programme. 12 Month Project, involving succesful delivery of 72 events covering around 2500 delegates nationwide.Responsible for sourcing, and pre-visiting venues to check suitability, then making final decision of which venue to use based on a number of aspects including location, budget, and room suitability. Planning and co-ordination with venues, managing the venue budget sheet and managing all venue logistics in the build up to the events. Solely responsible for setting up venue, then co-ordinating up to 180 delegates, and a training team of around 30 over 9 rooms.Responsible for on-site logistics, and troubleshooting any issues on the day of event in potentially high pressure situation.Managing relationships with internal and external stakeholders.

Swindon, Wiltshire, Gb

Employed as Senior Events Administrator filling in temporarily for the Events Co-ordinator role.Role involves liaising with shopping centres, supermarkets and agencies on a daily basis to book venues for sales advisors. Negotiating best possible prices and ensuring that weekly budget is adhered to for each team, saved almost 10k over the Christmas period by negotiating rates with agencies.Also support the National Show planner in planning the logistics and setting up for major exhibitions. This includes hotel and travel booking for sales advisors, ensuring correct literature is delivered to the show and going to the exhibition centre on setup day to ensure that setup runs smoothlyManage and maintaining the cost report to ensure that the monthly spending report that is sent to accounts is accurate. Offering support to the staff who input data into the report and responsible for running the month end report and ensuring this is accurate. I was responsible for coming up with the method and procedure for how the cost reporting is done.Ensuring that invoices are paid on time by supporting the Admin staffs and fixing any problems that occur in SAP.