Key responsibilities will include:
- Ownership and management of the calendar and budget for the company's events
- Create, implement and manage working processes from brief to evaluation
- Create and manage SLA’s with internal stakeholders and external suppliers
- Receive, log and allocate all event briefs, making sure they are answered properly
- Clear understanding of stakeholder objectives
- Create quarterly events plans in-line with stakeholders objectives for event managers
- Create and present event evaluations with Events Managers
- Create ways to monitoring the effectiveness of events working with BI
- Profile all events that come out of the company against our customer segmentation
- Create a promotional staff database for the events assistant to manage
- Create, negotiate and manage a preferred supplier list
- Identify new event opportunities which will increase sales and subscriptions
- Appoint event agencies and suppliers to support the team, ensuring value for money is attained
- Improve performance of the team through the analysis of existing business processes, identifying innovative alternatives and recommendations for more effective or efficient ways of working
- Attend and represent the events at regular stakeholder meetings
- Work with Event Managers to create campaign strategies
- Identify and develop ways to generate revenue through events
The ideal candidate will be able to demonstrate the following skills and experience:
- Experience of working in an events team
- Experience in working with or for an agency
- A passion for our brands and an understanding of how events can bring brand values to life
- Ability to juggle many relationships internally and externally
- Experience of managing senior stakeholders
- Ability to manage budgets
- Ability to innovate and push boundaries to improve results
- Strategic approach to answering briefs
- Able to use initiative and make decisions on the spot
- Able to manager projects alone or work as part of a big team
- Ability to multi task and work across many different projects at the same time.
- Be a great organiser with an eye for detail
- Excellent communications and reporting skills
- Strong analytical skills
- Enjoys a challenge and has a positive can do attitude
- Flexibility - Travel, weekend and evening working required