Description
The Events Manager is responsible for leading the strategic planning, governance and delivery of the firm’s events programme, ensuring all activity supports the firm’s business development priorities, brand standards and client experience expectations.
Reporting to the Senior Manager, Marketing Team Leader, the role acts as a trusted adviser to partners, senior lawyers and BD leaders, providing expert guidance on event strategy, format, risk, investment and return. Operating within a central marketing function, the Events Manager oversees delivery across regional, national and international events in a complex, stakeholder-led professional services environment.
Location:
London office minimum 3 days per week with travel throughout the UK as required to deliver events programme.
Key Responsibilities
* Strategic leadership & stakeholder engagement
* Lead the end to end management of the firm’s events programme across in person, virtual and hybrid formats, ensuring alignment with firmwide strategy and sector priorities.
* Act as a senior events adviser to partners, BD managers and marketing colleagues, shaping event objectives, formats and delivery models to maximise impact.
* Champion best practice in legal-sector event delivery, advising on differentiation, client experience and market positioning.
* Governance, risk & brand stewardship
* Own events governance, working closely with procurement, risk and compliance teams to assess and mitigate risk, manage supplier due diligence and ensure adherence to firm policies.
* Ensure consistent application of the firm’s brand, visual identity and tone across all physical and digital event touchpoints.
* Maintain firmwide standards for event quality, accessibility, data capture and post event reporting.
* Delivery oversight & financial accountability
* Oversee complex event production, ensuring efficient delivery across venues, logistics, catering, AV, content, registration and delegate experience.
* Hold budgetary accountability for events, ensuring spend is managed appropriately, value for money is demonstrated, and client spend protocols are adhered to.
* Lead supplier and venue relationships, including commercial negotiation and performance management.
* Performance, insight & continuous improvement
* Define success measures for events in partnership with BD and marketing colleagues.
* Lead post event evaluation, combining qualitative feedback and quantitative data to assess ROI and inform future planning.
* Use insight and market trends to continuously evolve the firm’s events offering.
* Team leadership
* Provide direction, coaching and quality oversight to Events Executives and coordinators, embedding high standards and supporting professional development.
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
* Significant experience delivering complex, stakeholder‑led events within a law firm or professional services environment.
* Proven ability to operate with senior stakeholders, exercising judgement, influence and discretion.
* Strong commercial and financial acumen, including budget ownership and supplier negotiation.
* Experience managing people and/or providing senior oversight of delivery teams.
* Calm, confident and decisive, with the ability to manage competing priorities at pace.
We are happy to talk flexible working with our Flex Forward scheme. We would encourage you to talk to us about our approach to flexible working during the hiring process if you would like to explore this further.
Note for Recruitment Agencies
DAC Beachcroft manages all vacancies via our in-house recruitment teams, prioritising direct sourcing and referrals. When external support is required, roles are released to selected agencies on our Preferred Supplier List (PSL).
Speculative CVs sent to any DAC Beachcroft employee without prior instruction from our recruitment teams (LLP and CSG) will not be accepted, and no fees will be payable.
For PSL queries, please contact: recruitment@dacbeachcroft.com or csgrecruitment@dacbeachcroft.com
We are a leading international legal business with over 3,000 colleagues and a diverse range of capabilities. We are market leaders in insurance, health and real estate but with a full-service offering, including growing Financial Services and Tech capabilities. We represent a wide range of clients – from household names to government departments and NHS bodies. We act for nearly all of the top-20 UK and global insurers, we're market leaders in the provision of strategic, commercial and regulatory advice to providers and commissioners in the health sector, and in real estate we advise all of the UK’s top-five housebuilders.
We are a fast-growing international business with offices around the globe. In addition to our 11 UK offices, we also have offices in Bogota, Buenos Aires, Dublin, Lima, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, Madrid, Mexico City, Milan, New York, Paris, Rome, Santiago de Chile, and Singapore plus a representative office in Miami and broad network of affiliations across the globe.
At DAC Beachcroft we are committed to and recognise the importance of equity, diversity and inclusion across the board, including and beyond the protected characteristics. We take decisions based solely on merit. We value, welcome and seek out people with different backgrounds and life experiences, perspectives, beliefs, ways of thinking and identities.