Events & Partnership Manager (1-Year Contract)

We are seeking a seasoned and high-performing Manager, Partnerships & Events (1 Year Contract) to join DP World APAC Communications, based in Singapore. This role plays a key leadership position in the execution delivery of major partnerships, sponsorship activations, and customer engagement events across APAC.

This role reports to the Director, Partnerships & Events (APAC), who sets the strategic direction and regional priorities. The Manager is responsible for translating direction into structured delivery plans, driving governance and execution excellence, managing complex multi-market delivery, and ensuring strong commercial enablement through disciplined ROI tracking, CRM hygiene and post-event follow-through.

This role requires excellent stakeholder management across commercial teams, Communications Centres of Excellence, global stakeholders, agencies, rights holders and vendors.

Key Accountabilities:

• Support the coordination and delivery of key APAC events and partnership activations, managing timelines, approvals, dependencies, and stakeholder alignment.
• Maintain detailed operational trackers and planning documents to provide clear visibility and structured updates for senior stakeholders.
• Coordinate logistics across venues, suppliers, travel, production, and onsite activities to ensure smooth and consistent execution.
• Assist with partnership activation tasks, including entitlements tracking, guest experience support, brand usage checks, and agency coordination.
• Prepare core event materials such as runofshow documents, briefs, operational plans, stakeholder packs, and eventday checklists.
• Support commercial teams with guest management processes (invites, confirmations, attendance tracking) and help capture postevent engagement and ROI data.
• Assist in campaign localisation efforts and consolidate key activation metrics in collaboration with Digital, Social, and Brand teams.
• Coordinate content capture and provide inputs for internal and external communications, ensuring accuracy and alignment with brand standards.
• Support the governance and delivery of APAC merchandise and gifting programmes, including vendor coordination, quality checks, inventory tracking, and deployment.
• Manage administrative and operational governance such as budgeting support, supplier coordination, financial workflows, risk tracking, and postevent reporting.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Marketing, Communications, Hospitality, Events Management or related field
• 5-8 years experience in events delivery/execution, commercial partnerships strategy, partnerships activation, sponsorships, hospitality programmes, customer engagement or integrated brand activations (regional exposure preferred)
• Proven experience coordinating complex programmes across multiple stakeholders (including agencies, suppliers, rights holders and internal teams). Agency experience a plus
• Strong delivery governance and project management capability, including operational planning, risk mitigation, run-of-show control, and structured reporting
• Demonstrated experience supporting commercial engagement programmes, including guest engagement planning, disciplined follow-up processes and structured tracking of engagement outcomes/ROI indicators (CRM exposure is an advantage)
• Strong budget discipline and governance experience, including invoicing workflows, supplier benchmarking/cost comparisons, and vendor performance tracking
• Excellent written and spoken English; additional Asian languages are an advantage

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About DP World

DP World is reshaping the future of global trade to improve lives everywhere. Operating across six continents with a team of over 115,000 employees, we combine global infrastructure and local expertise to deliver seamless supply chain solutions. From Ports and Terminals to Marine Services, Logistics and Technology, we leverage innovation to create better ways to trade, minimising disruptions from the factory floor to the customer's door.

In Asia Pacific, DP World employs over 15,000 people across 22 geographies. We operate 17 ports and terminals, complemented by a comprehensive suite of end-to-end supply chain solutions - to connect the region to the rest of the world.

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