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Are you an enthusiastic Events professional ready to take the lead in delivering outstanding events?
Events Manager
£35k to £40k depending on experience plus benefits such as 20 days holiday, pension, hybrid option, flexible working and social events.
9am to 5.30pm, hybrid option and flexible working available
Close to Kingston
Start date: ASAP!
Overview
As Conference & Events Manager, you will be the main point of contact, providing a full event management service to clients organising in-person, virtual and hybrid events.
Your strong administrative, organisational, leadership and customer service skills, along with proven experience in dealing with public and external stakeholders, will demonstrate you can deliver a variety of projects to meet event deadlines.
You will thrive in a pressured environment, effectively manage a varied workload and have attention to detail. You must have good written and verbal communication skills and have proven experience of managing in-person and online events.
Sound interesting?... Daily duties include:
- Managing the overall delivery of in-person, virtual and hybrid events
- Liaising with clients to ascertain their precise event requirements and producing detailed timelines/production plans
- Preparing and managing budgets
- Overseeing and managing a conference administrator
- Working closely with Programme Committees to prepare individual conference programmes and an abstract submission process
- Managing VIP, speaker and chairperson liaison and participation
- Venue sourcing, contracting and management of suitable conference venues and accommodation
- Sourcing, contracting and management of AV production teams for smooth delivery of in-person, online and hybrid events
- Briefing the design team on website requirements and maintaining website content
- Liaising with clients and designers to create event branding and organising digital and print production of collateral
- Managing a marketing plan to promote the event through a variety of media
- Preparing a prospectus and selling sponsorship/stand/exhibition space to potential exhibitors/partners
- Providing a secretariat service for conference committees, producing agendas, minutes and follow-up actions
- Preparing a post-event report and evaluation
To be successful in this role you'll have:
- Experience of budgeting and financial management
- Experience of managing a small team
- Experience of building productive relationships with people at all levels
- Excellent time management and delegation skills
- Be innovative and creative
If this is for you then you should apply today! If you know someone else who may be suitable, please pass on their details or ask them to apply!
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