United Kingdom · Events Experiential Marketing · Principal/Manager (12-16 years)

Manager, Roadshow Programmes

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Experience bandPrincipal/Manager (12-16 years)
Direct reports3-5 reports
Reports toDirector, Experiential Marketing
UK framework levelUsually a manager, or the deepest specialist in a team

Also advertised as Head of Experiential Events · Senior Events Programme Lead · Portfolio Events Manager · Global Roadshow Lead

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1What this role really is

As our Manager, Roadshow Programmes, you'll be the person making sure our multi-city event strategy actually works. You won't just run one roadshow; you'll be overseeing a whole portfolio of them, guiding your team to deliver impactful experiences across the country, or even internationally. Think of yourself as the conductor of a very complex, travelling orchestra, ensuring every show hits the right notes and delivers real business value. It's about setting the standard, building the team, and making sure we're always getting better.

2What you'd actually use

The tools this job runs on, and how well you'd need to know each one.

Cvent, Bizzabo, Splash (Event Management Platforms)Strategic

Leading platform selection/RFP processes, overseeing data governance across all events, architecting enterprise-wide usage strategies, and coaching your team on advanced features. You'll be the go-to person for platform optimisation.

Asana, Monday.com, Smartsheet (Project Management)Strategic

Managing a portfolio of programmes, using dashboards for executive reporting on resource allocation and risk across your team's projects. You'll be designing templates and workflows for maximum team efficiency.

Salesforce, Integrate Events (CRM & Lead Capture)Strategic

Working directly with RevOps to define lead flow, attribution models, and reporting requirements for the entire event portfolio. You'll ensure our event data integrates seamlessly and provides actionable insights for sales.

Excel (Advanced), Coupa / SAP Ariba (Budgeting & Finance)Strategic

Managing multi-million pound programme budgets, presenting complex financial performance to leadership, and providing inputs into corporate planning tools like Anaplan or Workday. You're a wizard with numbers and financial forecasting.

Slack/MS Teams, PowerPoint, Google Slides, Notion (Collaboration & Docs)Strategic

Developing the executive-level narrative for our overall event strategy and results, presenting quarterly business reviews (QBRs) to leadership, and setting standards for team collaboration and documentation. You're shaping how we communicate and operate.

Navan (formerly TripActions), Flexport (Travel & Freight)Strategic

Negotiating corporate travel rates for your team, evaluating global freight partners for cost and reliability across the entire programme, and ensuring smooth logistics for international roadshows. You're thinking globally about our operational efficiency.

3What you get to decide, and how that grows

Power in a job isn't your title. It's what you're allowed to decide. Here's how it grows as you move up.

The choice	Coming in	Where you are now	The step above
Programme Budget Allocation	No authority; submits requests to manager.	Proposes individual event budgets within programme guidelines; manager approves.	Approves individual event budgets up to £50K; recommends changes to overall programme budget to Director.
Vendor Selection & Contracts	Researches and provides vendor options; manager makes final selection.	Selects vendors for individual event components (e.g., catering, small A/V) within pre-approved list and budget.	Selects and negotiates contracts for key event vendors (e.g., main A/V, venue F&B) up to £25K; Director approves.
Team Hiring & Performance	No hiring authority; provides feedback on peers to manager.	Participates in interviews for junior roles; provides informal mentorship.	Leads interviews for junior roles; makes hiring recommendations; formally mentors 1-2 individuals.
Strategic Programme Direction	Executes assigned tasks; no input on strategy.	Proposes minor improvements to event execution; input on specific event tactics.	Leads planning for individual roadshow stops; makes recommendations on event format or content.
Contingency & Crisis Response	Escalates all issues to supervisor.	Resolves routine on-site issues within established guidelines; escalates major problems.	Manages on-site crisis response for a single event; makes quick decisions to mitigate impact.

4How you'll be judged

The scoreboard, honestly: the hard targets, how often each one is actually looked at, and the quiet human signals that never make it onto a dashboard.

Portfolio Pipeline Influence

The total value of sales pipeline directly influenced or sourced by the entire roadshow programme.

Target · Influence £5M+ in new sales pipeline annually

If our roadshows contribute to £1.2M of pipeline in Q1, and £1.5M in Q2, you're tracking towards the target. It's about showing that these events aren't just 'nice-to-haves', they're revenue drivers.

Return on Event Investment (ROEI)

The ratio of influenced pipeline/revenue to the total cost of the roadshow programme.

Target · Achieve a 3-5x ROEI across the roadshow portfolio

A £1M roadshow budget that generates £4M in influenced pipeline means a 4x ROEI. You'll be constantly looking for ways to improve this, either by reducing costs without sacrificing quality, or by making our events even more effective at generating pipeline.

Programme Budget Adherence

Keeping the overall roadshow programme budget within approved limits.

Target · Maintain overall programme budget within +/- 5% of plan

If the approved annual budget is £2M, you'll need to stay between £1.9M and £2.1M. This means you're not just tracking individual event budgets, but the consolidated financial health of the entire programme, making tough calls on spend when needed.

Team Efficiency & Productivity

Improvements in how quickly and effectively your team can plan and execute roadshows.

Target · Improve team efficiency by 15% year-on-year (e.g., reduce planning cycle time)

Reducing the average time to plan a new roadshow city from 12 weeks to 10 weeks, or increasing the number of events a single manager can oversee without burnout. It's about working smarter, not just harder.

Lead Quality & Conversion Rate

The percentage of leads generated from roadshows that convert into opportunities and then closed-won deals.

Target · Achieve a 20%+ MQL-to-Opportunity conversion rate and 5%+ Opportunity-to-Win rate for roadshow leads

If your roadshows generate 1,000 MQLs, at least 200 should become sales opportunities. This isn't just about volume; it's about making sure the leads are actually good and the sales team can do something with them. You'll be working closely with Sales to make sure this happens.

Team Development & Mentorship

The growth and effectiveness of your direct reports, and their ability to independently manage complex events.

Your team members are taking on more responsibility, successfully delivering challenging events, and proactively identifying solutions. They're asking fewer tactical questions and more strategic ones. Feedback from skip-level managers and HR shows high engagement and development. We'll see this in their performance reviews and their ability to step up when you're not around.

Strategic Alignment with Sales & Marketing

How well your roadshow programmes support broader sales and marketing objectives, and how effectively you communicate this.

You're regularly invited to Sales and Marketing leadership meetings to discuss strategy, not just logistics. Your proposals are clearly linked to business goals, and you're seen as a trusted partner. Sales teams are actively promoting roadshows to their prospects, and marketing campaigns are tightly integrated with event messaging. People come to you for advice on how to use events effectively, rather than just telling you what to do.

Vendor Ecosystem Optimisation

The quality, cost-effectiveness, and reliability of our external vendor network for roadshows.

You've established strong, mutually beneficial relationships with key vendors, leading to better rates, preferential service, and innovative solutions. You've got a robust backup plan for critical suppliers. We'll see fewer vendor-related issues on-site and positive feedback from your team about vendor support. You're not just using vendors
you're building a reliable network.

Process Innovation & Scalability

Your ability to identify inefficiencies and implement new processes or tools that make the entire roadshow operation more scalable and less prone to error.

You're not just following existing processes
you're actively looking for ways to improve them. You've introduced new templates, automated routine tasks, or streamlined approval flows that genuinely save time and reduce stress for your team. We'll see this in improved project timelines, reduced manual effort, and fewer last-minute scrambles. You're making life easier for everyone.

Brand Experience Consistency

Ensuring that the brand experience across all roadshow events is consistent, high-quality, and reflective of our company values.

Attendee feedback consistently highlights a positive and cohesive brand experience, regardless of the city. Your team is adhering to brand guidelines, and event materials (signage, presentations, demos) are always on-message. You've got a clear vision for what our brand 'feels like' at an event, and you're making sure it's executed flawlessly every time. No rogue branding on your watch.

5Would you like it

The honest version. What people enjoy, and what grinds them down.

What people enjoy

Building and Leading a High-Performing Team

You get a real kick out of seeing your team members grow, develop new skills, and successfully deliver complex events. You'll spend time mentoring, coaching, and empowering them, celebrating their successes and helping them learn from their mistakes. It's about creating an environment where everyone can do their best work.

Spending an hour reviewing a junior manager's budget forecast, not just correcting it, but explaining the 'why' behind the changes. Or, giving a rising star on your team the lead on a particularly challenging event in a new market.

Driving Measurable Business Impact

You're not just doing events for the sake of it; you're genuinely motivated by seeing your programmes contribute directly to sales pipeline and revenue. You'll be obsessed with the numbers, constantly looking for ways to optimise ROEI and prove the value of experiential marketing to the wider business. It's about showing that events aren't just a cost centre.

Presenting quarterly to leadership, not just on event attendance, but on the £5M in pipeline your team influenced, and then discussing how to increase that number next quarter.

Solving Complex Operational Challenges

You enjoy dissecting complex logistical puzzles, optimising workflows, and finding creative solutions to operational bottlenecks across multiple events. Whether it's streamlining vendor management or figuring out how to scale a new event format, you love the challenge of making things run more smoothly and efficiently.

Developing a new standardised process for international freight that reduces customs delays by 50%, or implementing a new project management tool that saves your team 10 hours a week in administrative tasks.

What frustrates people

The 'Swoop and Poop': An executive who hasn't been involved in six months of planning shows up on-site and demands major changes to the layout or agenda, completely disrupting everything.
Budget by a Thousand Cuts: Having your approved programme budget slowly chipped away by other departments, forcing you to sacrifice key elements of the attendee experience or team resources.
The Sales Follow-up Black Hole: Your team generates hundreds of high-quality, hand-scanned leads, only to see them sit untouched in Salesforce for weeks, negating all your hard work and making it hard to prove ROI.
The Physical Grind: The brutal reality of 18-hour days, living out of a suitcase for weeks, and the physical and mental exhaustion that follows a multi-city tour, often compounded by a lack of recognition for the effort.
Vendor Miscommunications: Discovering on-site that a critical detail (like power to the demo stations) was misinterpreted or omitted from the final Banquet Event Order, leading to a frantic scramble and often unnecessary costs.

What this role does not give you

A quiet, predictable work schedule with minimal travel.
The ability to work in isolation without constant collaboration and negotiation.
A role where you can avoid direct management and mentorship of others.
A guarantee that every single event will go exactly as planned without any issues.
A role where you don't have to justify your budget or prove the financial impact of your work.

6Who you work with

This role directly impacts our sales pipeline generation, brand perception in key markets, and overall marketing ROI. You'll be responsible for ensuring our experiential marketing efforts are not just 'busy work' but a critical, measurable engine for business growth. Get it right, and we'll see a tangible uplift in customer acquisition and engagement. Get it wrong, and we're talking about wasted budget and missed revenue targets – not ideal, is it?

Inside the business

Sales Leadership (Regional VPs, Sales Directors)
Marketing Leadership (CMO, Head of Product Marketing)
Finance Team (Budget Controllers, FP&A Analysts)
Product Team (Product Managers, GTM Leads)
Legal Department (Contract Review, Compliance)

Outside the business

Key Venue Partners (Hotel Chains, Convention Centres)
Strategic A/V and Production Agencies
Global Freight and Logistics Providers
Lead Capture Technology Vendors
Major Sponsorship Partners

7What you need before you start

Not a wish list. The things you would be expected to already have.

Proven experience successfully leading and managing a team of event professionals, with a track record of developing talent.
Demonstrable experience managing multi-million pound event budgets and delivering strong ROEI.
Extensive experience in end-to-end roadshow or multi-city event programme management, including strategy, planning, execution, and post-event analysis.
Strong commercial acumen, with a clear understanding of how events contribute to sales pipeline and revenue.
Advanced negotiation skills, particularly with large-scale venue and production contracts.
A deep network of trusted event vendors and partners, and a proven ability to manage these relationships effectively.
Experience presenting complex programme performance and strategic recommendations to executive-level audiences.

8What to practise next

Where the job is going, and what to do about it starting this week.

Advanced Event Data Architecture & Integration

As our event portfolio grows, so does the complexity of our data. You'll need to understand how to architect robust data flows between event platforms, CRM, marketing automation, and analytics tools to get a holistic view of attendee journeys and ROI. This isn't just pulling reports; it's designing the system.

API Integrations & Webhooks · Data Governance & Quality · Data Visualisation Tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI) · Marketing Attribution Models

This month: Deep dive into the data capabilities of our current event platforms (Cvent, Bizzabo) and CRM (Salesforce).
Next quarter: Map out the current data flow for a roadshow, identifying bottlenecks and areas for improvement.
Month 4-6: Lead a project to integrate a new data source or optimise an existing API connection for better reporting.
Month 7-9: Work with our BI team to build a consolidated event performance dashboard for executive reporting.

Quick win: Document our current event data flow, including all manual steps and potential points of error. This clarity is the first step to improvement.

Hybrid Event Programme Design

The future of events is increasingly hybrid. You'll need to design roadshow programmes that seamlessly blend physical and virtual experiences, extending reach and engagement beyond the physical venue. This requires a different strategic mindset and technical understanding.

Virtual Event Platforms (e.g., Hopin, On24) · Content Strategy for Hybrid Audiences · Audience Engagement Tools (e.g., Slido, Mentimeter) · Monetisation Strategies for Hybrid Events

This month: Attend a few industry webinars on hybrid event best practices and platform comparisons.
Next quarter: Design a pilot hybrid component for one of your roadshows, focusing on a specific virtual audience segment.
Month 4-6: Evaluate new virtual event platforms and propose how they could integrate into our existing tech stack.
Month 7-9: Develop a comprehensive strategy for incorporating hybrid elements into a significant portion of the roadshow programme.

Quick win: For your next roadshow, implement a simple live-streamed keynote or a dedicated virtual Q&A session to test the waters and gather feedback.

9Staying current once you are in

What people here do to keep up

Regularly attending industry conferences and trade shows (e.g., IMEX, Event Tech Live) to stay abreast of trends, network with peers, and scout new vendors.
Participating in leadership development programmes, especially those focused on coaching, strategic planning, and change management.
Engaging with industry associations (e.g., MPI, PCMA) to contribute to best practices and build your professional network.
Taking online courses or workshops on advanced data analytics, AI applications in marketing, or financial modelling for events.
Mentoring junior event professionals, as teaching others often solidifies your own understanding and leadership skills.

10How the AI economy is changing work like this

Before we ask anything of you, here's what we can already say about AI and work of this kind:

The new skill this role is being asked for: AI-Driven Personalisation at Scale

Attendees expect highly personalised experiences, and with large roadshow programmes, manual personalisation is impossible. AI is becoming critical for tailoring content, recommendations, and even on-site interactions to individual attendee profiles, driving higher engagement and conversion.

We'll only ever tell you what we can actually back up. No hype, no scare tactics.

The rising capability

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What's rising in its place

This is where the work is heading, and the higher pay with it. Get fluent here and the shift stops being a threat and starts being your edge.

AI-Driven Personalisation at Scale

Attendees expect highly personalised experiences, and with large roadshow programmes, manual personalisation is impossible. AI is becoming critical for tailoring content, recommendations, and even on-site interactions to individual attendee profiles, driving higher engagement and conversion.

Dynamic Content Generation
Predictive Attendee Journeys
Real-time Recommendation Engines
Ethical AI & Data Privacy

Sustainable Event Design & Reporting

Environmental responsibility isn't just a 'nice-to-have' anymore; it's a critical expectation from attendees, partners, and corporate leadership. You'll need to design and report on sustainable event practices across your entire programme.

Carbon Footprint Calculation
Circular Economy Principles
Green Procurement
Sustainability Reporting Frameworks

What you’ll use

Skills this role draws on

Technical

Venue Sourcing & Contract Negotiation
Run of Show (ROS) & Production Management
Budget Architecture & Reconciliation
Lead Management & ROI Analysis
Vendor Ecosystem Management
Contingency & Crisis Planning

The pathway

How you actually get there, here

How you become one varies far more by country than what one does. This is the UK route. Most people take one of these ways in; the right one depends on where you're starting from.

1
From Senior Roadshow Specialist (L3)
Roughly 4-6 years as a Senior Specialist or Lead Roadshow Manager (L4).
Skills to master
- Moving from owning a single event or series to managing a team. This means mastering people management, strategic budget oversight, and cross-functional influence at a higher level. You'll need to prove you can think beyond the individual event.
You're ready to move on when
- Successfully led multiple complex roadshow series from start to finish, consistently hitting targets.
- Demonstrated strong informal mentorship of junior team members, with positive feedback.
- Proactively identified and implemented process improvements that benefited the wider team.
- Managed significant event budgets (e.g., £250K+) with excellent financial control.
- Presented programme performance and strategic recommendations to senior leadership with confidence.
2
From Event Manager / Senior Event Producer (External)
Typically 10-15 years in a similar role at another company, with a strong focus on multi-city or large-scale B2B events.
Skills to master
- Translating external experience to our specific company culture and processes. Proving your ability to manage a team and a programme P&L, not just individual events. Understanding our sales cycle and how events drive pipeline.
You're ready to move on when
- A portfolio of successful large-scale or multi-city event programmes you've personally managed and overseen.
- Clear evidence of direct people management responsibility and team development.
- Experience managing budgets exceeding £500K and demonstrating clear ROI.
- Strong references from previous senior leadership regarding your strategic thinking and leadership capabilities.
- A deep understanding of the B2B marketing and sales landscape, specifically how events contribute to revenue.
3
From Marketing Programme Manager (Adjacent Field)
Roughly 10-15 years in a broader marketing programme management role, with significant exposure to events.
Skills to master
- Deepening event-specific operational knowledge (logistics, production, vendor management). You'll need to quickly get up to speed on the nuances of live event execution and crisis management, while bringing your strategic programme management skills to the fore.
You're ready to move on when
- Managed complex marketing programmes (e.g., product launches, integrated campaigns) with multiple moving parts.
- Demonstrated strong leadership and cross-functional project management skills.
- Clear understanding of marketing metrics and how to prove campaign ROI.
- A genuine passion for experiential marketing and a willingness to immerse yourself in the operational details of events.
- Successfully managed budgets and external agencies in previous marketing roles.

11Where this role leads

The long view:Ultimately, this role isn't just a job; it's a launchpad. Whether you aspire to lead a global events empire, take the helm of an entire marketing department, or become a strategic IC expert, the experience you gain here will equip you for significant impact. We're looking for someone with ambition, who's ready to make a real mark and grow with us for the long haul. Your career path is yours to shape, and we're here to help you build it.

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The ten Future Fluencies

Zavmo analysis

The credential is what you can do today. These are what keep you valuable.

A qualification proves you can do the job as it's defined today. These ten are what decide whether you're still the obvious person for it in five years. They're the capabilities employers are now writing into senior roles faster than people are learning them. Zavmo weaves them through whatever you study, so you come out with both: the credential and the fluency.

The highlighted ones are the Fluencies your role leans on hardest, from how Manager, Roadshow Programmes is actually changing. In about two minutes, the free confidence check asks where you stand on each of the ten. That's the whole check, and it's what makes the plan yours rather than generic.

12The team that's yours

No two people are taught the same way. This is one-to-one, not one-to-many.

Zavmo is a hyper-personalised AI learning platform. Twelve virtual tutors, each with a different way of teaching, and one orchestration agent that picks the right one for the moment. So every single lesson is shaped around you, your role, and the way you learn. Not a course everyone sits through. A conversation built for you, and no one else.

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13What it feels like

A conversation, not a course

Because your tutor knows your role, your projects and your last session, learning sounds like this. And it's different for every single person:

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Applied to your work in Manager, Roadshow Programmes

By completing this unit, learners will be able to carry out travel awareness, planning and behaviour management projects, and prepare marketing and travel information for travel planning programmes.

How the thinking builds

Remember
Understand
Apply
Analyse
Evaluate
Create

An illustration of a Zavmo lesson, built from this role’s own route. The unit, its objective and every criterion above are the awarding body’s own words, not an example.

One to one, not one to many

No two people run this the same way

A course is written once and handed to everyone. This is assembled around you, and keeps changing as it learns you. Five things it reads, and what each one changes.

Your actual work Every lesson is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
What you already know The first conversation finds your starting point, so you skip what you can already do and spend the time on what you cannot.
The conditions you learn under Not a learning-styles quiz. The evidence does not support those. The dimensions the research does back, read once and used to shape the plan.
How far you got last time It picks up mid-thought. The tutor knows what you said, what you struggled with, and what it asked you to try.
Which tutor suits the moment Twelve of them, each for a different kind of thinking. The one who walks you through a first idea is not the one who stress-tests it.

See how you learn, free. Eight questions, no sign-up. A directional taster; the diagnostic inside Zavmo goes deeper and keeps adapting.

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Evidenced on your work in Manager, Roadshow Programmes

You do not finish by watching something. You finish by showing it on the work you already do, against the measures this job is judged on.

Portfolio Pipeline InfluenceThe total value of sales pipeline directly influenced or sourced by the entire roadshow programme.If our roadshows contribute to £1.2M of pipeline in Q1, and £1.5M in Q2, you're tracking towards the target. It's about showing that these events aren't just 'nice-to-haves', they're revenue drivers.Influence £5M+ in new sales pipeline annually
Return on Event Investment (ROEI)The ratio of influenced pipeline/revenue to the total cost of the roadshow programme.A £1M roadshow budget that generates £4M in influenced pipeline means a 4x ROEI. You'll be constantly looking for ways to improve this, either by reducing costs without sacrificing quality, or by making our events even more effective at generating pipeline.Achieve a 3-5x ROEI across the roadshow portfolio
Programme Budget AdherenceKeeping the overall roadshow programme budget within approved limits.If the approved annual budget is £2M, you'll need to stay between £1.9M and £2.1M. This means you're not just tracking individual event budgets, but the consolidated financial health of the entire programme, making tough calls on spend when needed.Maintain overall programme budget within +/- 5% of plan
Team Efficiency & ProductivityImprovements in how quickly and effectively your team can plan and execute roadshows.Reducing the average time to plan a new roadshow city from 12 weeks to 10 weeks, or increasing the number of events a single manager can oversee without burnout. It's about working smarter, not just harder.Improve team efficiency by 15% year-on-year (e.g., reduce planning cycle time)

and 1 more in the full scoreboard below.

These are this job's own measures, with its own targets. Nothing is marked evidenced, because nobody has started this yet. Yours would fill in from the work you bring.

Your passport

This isn't a certificate you file away. It's a passport to the life you're designing.

Every credit you earn and every fluency you build adds up: evidence where it counts, carried with you. Zavmo keeps the map: where you are, where you're heading, and the next step, at your pace, around your life. From Manager, Roadshow Programmes to Director, Experiential Marketing (L6), and whatever you decide comes after.

Level 5 · in progressAI Fluency→ Director, Experiential Marketing (L6)→ your design

Where this takes you

Ultimately, this role isn't just a job; it's a launchpad. Whether you aspire to lead a global events empire, take the helm of an entire marketing department, or become a strategic IC expert, the experience you gain here will equip you for significant impact. We're looking for someone with ambition, who's ready to make a real mark and grow with us for the long haul. Your career path is yours to shape, and we're here to help you build it.

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Manager, Roadshow Programmes

Venue Sourcing & Contract Negotiation
Run of Show (ROS) & Production Management
Budget Architecture & Reconciliation
Lead Management & ROI Analysis
Vendor Ecosystem Management
Contingency & Crisis Planning

This is your Mind Palace on learn.zavmo.ai. Every skill above comes from this role's own record, not an example borrowed from another job. A node lights up when you evidence it, and what you build stays yours between jobs. That is the part a course cannot do.

14The detail, folded away

Everything else the record holds

The career branches in full, how AI is already showing up in the day-to-day, and the questions people ask about this job. Here when you want them, out of the way while you decide.

Where it leads next, rung by rung

Where it leads

The career path, and where it branches

Manager, Roadshow Programmes is a start, not a ceiling. Each step below asks for new skills and hands back more autonomy.

Director, Experiential Marketing (L6)
Roughly 3-5 years as Manager, Roadshow Programmes.
This is a significant jump, moving from managing a specific programme portfolio to owning the entire experiential marketing strategy for a business unit. You'll be setting the vision for all events, not just roadshows.
- Global Event Portfolio Management: Overseeing a diverse portfolio including trade shows, user conferences, and roadshows across multiple geographies.
- Strategic Vendor Partnerships: Developing and managing long-term, high-value strategic partnerships with global event agencies and technology providers.
- Market & Competitive Analysis: Using deep market insights to identify new event opportunities and respond to competitive threats.
- P&L Management (£2M-£10M+): Full accountability for a much larger budget and demonstrating significant impact on revenue.

Working with AI on the job

Working with AI

Where AI is starting to help

Let's be honest, managing a portfolio of roadshows means a mountain of repetitive tasks and endless coordination. But what if you could offload a significant chunk of that work? Our AI Productivity Hub is designed to do just that, giving you back precious hours to focus on strategy, team development, and delivering truly impactful experiences.

For a Manager of Roadshow Programmes, AI isn't about replacing your strategic brain; it's about giving you a powerful co-pilot. Imagine automating the tedious parts of vendor management, getting instant insights from attendee feedback, or rapidly scouting new venues. That's what our AI tools are here for – to amplify your effectiveness and free you up for the work that truly matters, like mentoring your team and driving programme ROI.

Automated Vendor & Speaker Logistics

Use AI to draft and send initial outreach to potential speakers and vendors, manage follow-ups for contracts, headshots, and travel booking deadlines. It handles the high-volume, low-complexity communication across your entire programme, ensuring nothing falls through the cracks. Your team spends less time chasing and more time building.

AI-Powered Venue & Vendor Scouting

Leverage AI assistants to perform initial research on venues and local vendors in new markets, based on complex criteria like capacity, tech specs, sustainability, and proximity to airports. Get a comparative shortlist generated in minutes, not days, allowing your team to focus on site visits and relationship building, not endless Googling.

First-Draft Communications Engine

Use generative AI to create first drafts of all event copy for your programme: invitation emails, landing page content, social media posts, and post-event follow-ups. This means your team can skip the 'blank page' problem, quickly getting to a strong starting point and spending their time refining and personalising, rather than staring at a blinking cursor.

Instant Post-Event Survey Analysis

Feed thousands of open-ended survey comments from across all your roadshows into an AI tool. It will instantly identify key themes, positive/negative sentiment, and actionable suggestions, creating the core of your consolidated post-mortem reports automatically. This gives you rapid, data-driven insights to optimise future events and prove programme impact.

Common questions

How do you become a Manager, Roadshow Programmes?

Common routes in include From Senior Roadshow Specialist (L3) (Roughly 4-6 years as a Senior Specialist or Lead Roadshow Manager (L4).), From Event Manager / Senior Event Producer (External) (Typically 10-15 years in a similar role at another company, with a strong focus on multi-city or large-scale B2B events.) and From Marketing Programme Manager (Adjacent Field) (Roughly 10-15 years in a broader marketing programme management role, with significant exposure to events.). Times vary with prior experience.

Where can a Manager, Roadshow Programmes progress to?

This role can lead on to Director, Experiential Marketing (L6) (Roughly 3-5 years as Manager, Roadshow Programmes.), depending on the skills you build.

What level is a Manager, Roadshow Programmes in the UK?

This role aligns to RQF Level 5 on the UK framework, a guide to the depth of qualification it maps to, not a hard entry bar.

What new skills matter most for a Manager, Roadshow Programmes?

Increasingly, AI-Driven Personalisation at Scale and Sustainable Event Design & Reporting. These are the areas where the higher-paid, future-proof work is heading.

The honest bit

You’ve started things before

Most of them were built for a room full of people who aren’t you. A cohort moves on whether or not your week allowed it, and by the third week the thing you’re behind on becomes the reason you stop opening it.

There’s no cohort here, and no timetable to fall behind. Before anything starts, Zavmo asks when you’re sharpest and how long you can realistically sit down for, then builds the sessions around those answers. A bad fortnight changes your pace. It doesn’t put you behind.

And you only pay once you start learning. Searching and planning are free, and you can cancel any time — so the cost of finding out is an afternoon, not a year.

What it costs

Less than one coaching session. Every month.

A single career-coaching hour costs more than a month of this, and it ends when the hour does. Zavmo doesn't. It's £70 a month, about £2.30 a day, for a companion that knows Manager, Roadshow Programmes, works on the job you actually do, and keeps going at your pace rather than a timetable's.

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Your path, personalised

You have the map. Walking it is the part we do together.

This route runs to 7 national skill standards. That is a real journey.

Zavmo shapes a learning experience as unique as you are. It fits how you learn, your pace and the work you already do. Every step stays benchmarked to recognised national standards. That’s the plan for becoming a Manager, Roadshow Programmes: personal to you, and it still counts. The first steps are free.

Independent research finds well-designed intelligent tutoring performs nearly as well as one-to-one human tutoring: VanLehn (2011), Educational Psychologist.

A private tutor in the UK averages £35–40 an hour . Zavmo is £70/month.

A Zavmo curriculum screen: a three-month plan built for a customer support lead, five Ofqual-regulated units and a hundred and ninety-six credits. — A real plan on learn.zavmo.ai: Ofqual-regulated units, credits, and a three-month run at your own pace.

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15Where to go from here

Other roles at Level 5

Same depth of qualification, different job. Useful if the work appeals but this particular role does not.

Other roles in Events Experiential Marketing

Stay in the field you know and move sideways rather than up.

If you leave this industry

The skills you'll develop in this role – strategic programme management, P&L ownership, team leadership, and proving event ROI – are highly transferable. You could move into senior marketing roles, broader programme management positions in other industries, or even leadership roles in event technology companies or large-scale agency environments. The ability to manage complex operations and deliver measurable business impact is always in demand, regardless of the sector.

Not sure this is the right direction?

Work out what you actually want from work first, then come back and see which roles fit it. Takes about ten minutes.

You're not behind. You're right on time. The shift is only just beginning. Your role won't look the same in two years. Be the one who leads the change, not the one it happens to. Build my plan, free Here's the first ten minutes: a 2-minute confidence check → your personalised roadmap → meet the tutors matched to you. No card, cancel any time. No card. Build your plan, see your roadmap and meet the twelve tutors matched to you. All free. When you're ready to start learning, it's £70 a month, billed monthly. Cancel any time and billing stops.

Manager, Roadshow Programmes

What's rising in its place

AI-Driven Personalisation at Scale

Sustainable Event Design & Reporting

Skills this role draws on

Technical

How you actually get there, here

From Senior Roadshow Specialist (L3)

From Event Manager / Senior Event Producer (External)

From Marketing Programme Manager (Adjacent Field)

The credential is what you can do today. These are what keep you valuable.

Roles this leads to

No two people are taught the same way. This is one-to-one, not one-to-many.

A conversation, not a course

No two people run this the same way

This isn't a certificate you file away. It's a passport to the life you're designing.

Everything else the record holds

The career path, and where it branches

Director, Experiential Marketing (L6)

Where AI is starting to help

Automated Vendor & Speaker Logistics

AI-Powered Venue & Vendor Scouting

First-Draft Communications Engine

Instant Post-Event Survey Analysis

Common questions

You’ve started things before

Less than one coaching session. Every month.

You have the map. Walking it is the part we do together.