29 Sep 2025

Join Our Team - ATTA Events Buyer Engagement Manager

Location: UK-based (Remote)

Contract: Permanent | Full-time (5 days/week)

Salary: Competitive, based on experience

Are you passionate about creating world-class B2B travel events? Do you thrive on building meaningful relationships and connecting global travel professionals? Join us at Experience Africa Events (EAE) — part of ATTA® — as our new Buyer Engagement Manager and play a key role in curating the industry’s most respected hosted buyer programmes.

👥 About the Role

As Buyer Engagement Manager, you will take ownership of the full buyer lifecycle — from recruitment and onboarding to relationship management — across all owned events including Experience Africa. Working closely with the CEO, Head of Events and Operations Manager, you’ll ensure high-quality, mutually beneficial meetings between our exhibitors and top-tier trade buyers from across the globe.

You’ll be the person behind the scenes making sure the right buyers attend the right shows — and that their experience exceeds expectations from application to event delivery.

✨ Key Responsibilities

  • Recruit high-quality, trade-ready buyers aligned to our event and exhibitor strategy

  • Manage buyer applications, onboarding, and tech platform engagement

  • Build and maintain a well-segmented, compliant buyer database

  • Collaborate on diary set-up, preference capture, and troubleshooting

  • Foster long-term relationships with key buyers, trade bodies and sponsors

  • Represent EAE / ATTA Events at trade shows, networking events, and industry gatherings

  • Monitor KPIs and report on buyer satisfaction and meeting ROI

🔍 What We’re Looking For

  • Experience in hosted buyer programmes, B2B events or travel trade

  • Outstanding stakeholder management and communication skills

  • Strong grasp of CRM and meeting scheduling platforms

  • A collaborative team player with strategic awareness and attention to detail

  • Understanding of data privacy, diversity, and international market dynamics

  • A passion for Africa and the tourism sector is highly desirable

💼 Why Join Us?

  • Be part of a small, agile, and ambitious team delivering meaningful impact

  • Work with a globally respected brand in the African travel and tourism space

  • Help shape the future of the industry through dynamic, purpose-driven events

  • Flexible working environment (UK-based role with remote options)

  • Opportunities to travel to trade events in the UK and internationally

Job Description

 

Ready to Apply?

Please send your CV and a short covering note outlining your suitability to [email protected]. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis until the position is filled.

Experience Africa Events is committed to building an inclusive, values-led team. We welcome applications from all backgrounds, and especially encourage candidates who bring diversity of experience and perspective to our work.

 

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