Freelance Event Sales Manager

Freelance Event Sales Manager You already know who books event staff in this region. Bring them to us, we deliver, and you earn on every booking for a year — without managing a single shift. Commission only · Non-exclusive · Your own hours · UAE & GCC · Freelance permit or trade licence required What you would be selling Guild & Craft supplies event staff, professionals and talent across the UAE and the wider GCC to agencies, event-tech companies, brands, organisers and venues. If it is a person standing at an event, we can put them there. Staffing is our core business and your main lane: Guest experience — registration, check-in and scanning crew, hosts and hostesses, ushers, promoters, brand ambassadors, models Hospitality and operations — waiters, event help staff, runners, drivers Supervision — event supervisors and event managers who run the floor Content — photographers and videographers Talent and entertainment — stand-up comedians, singers, dancers, musicians and specialty acts Headline talent — international and regional celebrities, TV personalities, sports personalities, public figures and keynote speakers, and touring music bands, booked through their management Whatever the brief asks for, the answer is usually yes — and if it is a category we have not staffed before, we will tell you straight rather than let you promise something we cannot deliver. Your territory is the GCC, not just Dubai. We have crew across the major cities — Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Riyadh, Jeddah, Doha, Kuwait City, Manama and Muscat. If your network sits in Saudi or Qatar rather than the UAE, that is an advantage here, not a problem. We also take on full event management where the brief fits, which gives you a second and larger lane when a client has a whole event to place rather than a crew to fill. The delivery is not your problem, and it is worth knowing it is handled properly before you put your name to it. We run every booking through our own portal: the client gets a private shortlist link, approves the profiles they want, and receives a digital estimate and tax invoice. Published rate card, briefed crew, 45 minutes early on site. You are introducing a company that will not embarrass you in front of a client you spent two years building a relationship with. What you would do Open doors — agencies, brand teams, event-tech companies, exhibition organisers, hotels, anyone who books temporary event crew or entertainment Register each lead with us before you work it, so your claim on that client is on record Bring us the brief; we prepare the quotation and the shortlist, usually same day Close it, in whatever way you normally close Hand over. We deliver, invoice and collect. You are free to go and open the next door. You are not asked to manage bookings, brief crew, handle replacements or chase payment. If you want to be involved in delivery, that is a separate conversation and a separate fee. What you would earn Commission on the invoice value — not on our profit, so there is nothing for us to argue with you about at month end. Rates are marginal, in bands, on the first booking a new client places: Staffing and entertainers — your main lane FIRST BOOKING OF A CLIENT YOU INTRODUCED Commissionable revenue Rate First AED 50,000 5.0% AED 50,001 – 200,000 3.0% AED 200,001 – 500,000 2.0% Above AED 500,000 1.5% Then 3% of every booking that client places for the next 12 months — whether you are involved in it or not. One introduction, a year of income from it. Commissionable revenue is the invoice excluding VAT and excluding straight pass-through costs we rebill at cost — venue hire, food and beverage, government permits, third-party production hire. On staffing work, that is effectively the whole invoice. WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE IN PRACTICE Deal You earn A 6,000 staffing booking 300 …that client then books 19 more times in the year +3,540 A 25,000 crew booking for a three-day expo 1,250 A 40,000 entertainment booking — comedian and band 2,000 Uncapped, and non-exclusive — most people doing this run it alongside their other work rather than as their only income. Paid within 30 days of us collecting from the client, against your invoice. Headline talent bookings work differently A celebrity, sports personality, keynote speaker or touring band is booked through their management, and their fee is passed straight through to them — it is not ours. So these run on the event-mandate rates below, calculated after the talent fee and their travel and hospitality are taken out. On a 400,000 AED celebrity booking where the artist fee and hospitality come to 350,000, commission is calculated on the remaining 50,000 — so you earn 2,000, not 20,000. Glamorous deal, modest commission. Better you know that now than after you have closed one. Event mandates — welcome, accepted case by case If one of your clients has a whole event to place — a corporate event or conference, an exhibition, a gala, a community, music or sports event — bring it. We take these on selectively, so the rule is: register the brief, not just the client, and we will tell you within 48 hours whether we are pursuing it. A fast no costs you nothing; we will never let you work a brief for weeks and then pass on it. ACCEPTED EVENT MANDATES · MINIMUM 25,000 AED INVOICE Commissionable revenue Rate First AED 100,000 4.0% AED 100,001 – 300,000 3.0% AED 300,001 – 750,000 2.0% Above AED 750,000 1.25% Paid 40% when the client's advance clears, 60% on final collection. Event deals take months to land and months more to deliver — you should not have to wait until after the event to see any of it. One thing to be straight about, because it is where people get disappointed: commission is on commissionable revenue, not the headline budget. On production-heavy events — music and sports especially — most of the budget is artist fees, venue and production that we pass through at cost. How it works You register the lead. Name and contact, by email or through the portal, before you approach them. For an event mandate, register the brief too. We confirm within 48 hours that they are not already our client or registered to someone else. Written confirmation — that is your protection, and the reason disputes do not happen here. You work it. You have 90 days to land a first booking before the registration lapses. We quote and deliver. Send us the requirement and we shortlist profiles against it, then share that shortlist with you — a private link matched to the brief, not a general database to browse. You have the rate card and a co-branded presentation in your own name from day one. You invoice us against the monthly commission statement, which lists every qualifying invoice and how it was calculated. What we do not offer Worth being straight about it, so nobody wastes a meeting: No base, no retainer, no draw against commission No leads handed to you — inbound enquiries are handled by our in-house team and are not commissionable No expenses, no visa sponsorship, no employment relationship No commission on clients we already work with, which is exactly why step 2 exists Interested? No CV needed. Send a short note telling us which part of the market you know and the kind of clients you would bring. If it fits, we will send the agreement and get you the rate card and your co-branded sales materials the same week. This is an independent contractor engagement, not employment. Commission terms are set out in full in our Freelance Sales Agent Agreement, which we will share before you commit to anything.

Desired Candidate Profile

Who this suits You have an existing network in UAE events, experiential marketing, exhibitions, hospitality or brand activations — people who will take your call today You have sold before, in events or staffing or an adjacent B2B service, and do not need to be taught how to open a conversation You hold a valid UAE freelance permit or your own trade licence and can invoice us properly You are comfortable with commission-only work and are not looking for a retainer or a draw One expectation worth setting plainly: staffing tickets are small and the money here comes from opening accounts, not from landing one big deal. The people who do well register eight to ten leads a month. If you are hoping a single event will carry the year, this will disappoint you. Employment Type Contract

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