Exhibition Director — Recent Show Launches | Own a Theme, Build the Business

? Mumbai / Delhi · Leadership hire · 10+ yrs in exhibitions, B2B events or platform businesses

OTM Mumbai — certified by NielsenIQ as the leading travel trade show in India and Asia. TTF — India’s oldest travel show series, running since 1989. BLTM — the leader in business and MICE travel. WTE Miami — where America’s travel trade meets the world. Nine editions, six cities, a ₹100-crore-plus portfolio — now expanding into new industry themes, with venue dates already secured at India’s premier halls.

The role: we appoint an Exhibition Director to own one theme as a business — yours from thesis to floor. You will pick the market with us, write the show’s concept and business plan, launch edition one, and lead it through growth and subsequent editions with full ownership of its strategy, revenue and P&L.; This is a founder’s mandate inside an established house: our test is simple — can this show be #1 in its theme and the launch city, within three editions? You’ll have the capital, the machine and the accountability to prove it.

The thesis we keep proving: India’s markets are multi-city; most of its shows are not.

For 35 years we’ve run one playbook better than anyone - take a proven theme and build it in multiple cities. Yet most of India’s leading trade shows still live in one city while their industries buy, sell and build across three. If you’ve led or grown a major show and can see the cities its theme hasn’t reached — the second and third city its market is waiting for - that is exactly the thesis we fund: built clean, from open-market demand up,



with our multi-city machinery behind you.

You will:

- Identify and evaluate the theme’s opportunity — market size, exhibitor universe, buyer demand
- Build the concept, positioning and business plan from the ground up
- Drive exhibitor acquisition, sponsorship and partnership revenue against a launch target
- Convene the industry — associations, anchor exhibitors, government and institutional stakeholders — around your platform
- Recruit and lead the show’s team as it scales
- Deliver editions with the group’s sales, marketing, operations and studio machine behind you

You have:

- 10+ years in exhibitions, trade shows or B2B platforms, with at least one launch or turnaround you personally led
- Deep standing in an industry vertical — infrastructure, energy, technology, environment, healthcare, manufacturing, mobility or another you’ll argue for - where you know the top companies and associations by name
- Strong commercial instincts and the relationships to open doors
- CRM-native working style and comfort with weekly, monthly and quarterly performance rhythms on transparent scoreboards
- The entrepreneurial appetite to own an outcome, not a function

Why Fairfest: founder-scale ownership with an established organiser’s platform - secured dates and operational excellence at India’s best venues in different cities, a full shared-services machine, and real capital behind the expansion · a leadership seat with direct access to the group’s board · in a business AI can’t replace: people meeting people.

? Mumbai or Delhi · Tell us the theme you’d build — or the city its industry is missing.

📌 Exhibition Director (Mumbai)
🏢 Fairfest Media
📍 Mumbai