Bilingual Senior Events Consultant
Introduction
Our client is seeking an experienced Bilingual Senior Events Consultant for a 3 to 6 month contract to provide senior-level leadership across conferences, tradeshows, sponsorship programs, and related event activities.
This hands-on consulting opportunity is well suited to an experienced events professional who can step into an established environment, bring structure and consistency to event delivery, and support a collaborative team. French-English bilingualism is an asset for this role.
You will oversee the full event and tradeshow cycle, strengthen operational processes, support sponsorship and exhibitor revenue, and help ensure systems and workflows provide a reliable experience for attendees, exhibitors, sponsors, partners, and internal teams.
Compensation: $90,000 to $120,000 annualized, commensurate with experience and qualifications.
Contract term: 3 to 6 months.
Vacancy status: This is an existing vacancy with immediate availability.
What You’ll Do
As the Bilingual Senior Events Consultant, you will provide experienced, hands-on leadership for major conferences, tradeshows, and related programs.
You will bring structure to planning and execution, coordinate effectively with internal teams and external partners, and help establish reliable processes that can continue to support the organization after the contract is complete.
A key part of your mandate will be ensuring event technology, exhibitor and sponsor programs, revenue tracking, and operational workflows are well organized, tested, documented, and consistently managed.
Responsibilities
- Lead the planning and execution of conferences, tradeshows, and related events, including schedules, budgets, logistics, risk management, and onsite delivery.
- Oversee exhibitor strategy, booth sales, floor planning, communications, deliverables, and event execution.
- Coordinate with internal departments, venues, technology providers, suppliers, and other external partners.
- Establish clear project plans, timelines, responsibilities, and accountability for event deliverables.
- Manage structured sponsorship and exhibitor programs, including pipelines, targets, timelines, and revenue tracking.
- Review sponsorship and exhibitor packages, pricing, and value propositions to identify sustainable revenue opportunities.
- Build relationships with prospective and existing sponsors and exhibitors.
- Improve revenue forecasting, sales tracking, and reporting.
- Provide senior oversight of event technology, including registration, exhibitor setup, sponsorship deliverables, bilingual requirements, payments, and related workflows.
- Work with technology providers and internal stakeholders to define requirements, resolve issues, validate configurations, and complete appropriate testing before launch.
- Review end-to-end event workflows and identify practical opportunities to improve consistency and reduce manual work.
- Develop playbooks, checklists, templates, timelines, controls, and standard operating procedures.
- Clarify responsibilities, hand-offs, approval points, and quality-control processes.
- Transfer processes, tools, and operational knowledge to the internal team before the completion of the contract.
Qualifications
- Significant hands-on experience leading large conferences and tradeshows.
- Demonstrated experience with exhibitor sales, sponsorship programs, floor operations, and onsite event delivery.
- Proven ability to generate event, sponsorship, or tradeshow revenue and manage a structured sales pipeline.
- Strong knowledge of event management and tradeshow technology platforms.
- Experience overseeing platform configuration, vendor performance, testing, and issue resolution.
- Experience creating event processes, playbooks, controls, and standard operating procedures.
- Strong project management, budgeting, forecasting, negotiation, and vendor-management skills.
- Ability to assess priorities quickly and independently move projects forward.
- Strong communication and relationship-management skills when working with sponsors, exhibitors, partners, vendors, and internal teams.
- Experience within an association, not-for-profit, conference, or member-based environment is an asset.
- French-English bilingualism is an asset.
Benefits
This contract provides an opportunity to apply your experience in a structured senior consulting capacity while supporting established events and a collaborative team.
You can expect a defined 3 to 6 month mandate, senior-level responsibility, meaningful interaction with internal and external stakeholders, and the opportunity to improve processes that will continue supporting the organization after your engagement ends.
The role also offers the satisfaction of bringing clarity, consistency, and reliable processes to complex event operations while helping the internal team build sustainable practices for future events.
Why Work with Us
This is an opportunity for an experienced events professional to take ownership of meaningful work without the expectation of building everything from the ground up. You will help our client strengthen event execution, sponsorship and exhibitor programs, technology workflows, and operational readiness.
Your experience will directly support a more consistent and dependable approach to event delivery. Just as importantly, you will have the opportunity to leave behind practical tools, documented processes, and clear accountabilities that make day-to-day work easier for the team.
For someone who values clear objectives, collaborative relationships, professional stability, and the ability to see tangible results from their work, this contract offers a focused and rewarding mandate.
Disclosure: “Bilingual Source uses artificial intelligence (AI) technology to assist in screening and assessing applicants for this position. This technology helps us match your unique language skills and professional experience with the specific needs of our clients. Final hiring and interview decisions continue to be made by our human recruitment experts.”
Vacancy: This is an existing vacancy with immediate availability. Our client is currently seeking Bilingual Senior Events Consultant.