Job Description
About the role
We’re seeking a highly organised, experienced, and proactive Events Manager to join our team. In this role, you’ll support the Head of Events and Senior Events Manager in delivering exceptional in-person and virtual events, ensuring the organisation’s external presence is consistently professional, creative, and impactful.
Ideally, you’ll bring experience from a financial services environment and have proven ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously while meeting competing deadlines. You’ll demonstrate excellent organisational and logistical skills, with proficiency in Cvent considered an advantage. A forward-thinking mindset is essential. We’re looking for a collaborative team player who shows initiative, has a genuine passion for events, and contributes positively and effectively within a team environment.
The successful candidate will demonstrate:
* Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
* Proven experience in planning and delivering both in-person and virtual events from concept through to completion and post-event evaluation.
* Confidence in engaging with senior colleagues and customers.
* Competency with statistics and reporting.
* A ‘can do’ and solutions driven mindset.
* Desire and willingness to travel.
* Good geographical knowledge of the UK.
* Understanding of working in a regulated environment.
* Flexible approach to change with a laser customer focus.
* Ability to work well under pressure and to tight deadlines.
* Commercial awareness.
* A creative and proactive approach, capable of generating ideas and contributing to impactful event and marketing activity.
* Confidence in liaising with suppliers, sourcing venues, managing budgets, and coordinating logistics.
* Strong collaboration skills, working effectively with colleagues across marketing and internal teams while managing the ability to work independently when required.
* Exceptional attention to detail, accuracy, and professionalism.
* A flexible, solutions focused mindset with a strong work ethic and commitment to delivering high quality outcomes.
You’ll spend your time:
* Supporting the Head of Events and Senior Event Manager, working closely with the marketing team as well as internal stakeholders.
* Supporting to business to deliver a high-quality event programme.
* Managing a range of events from inception to completion and post-event actions.
* Handling logistics, audience, budget, event promotion
* Oversee the sign off process for event marketing materials.
* Source venues
* Liaison with suppliers
* Co-ordinate information from a range of sources
* Contributing to planning documents and tools
A bit about you
Your friends would describe you as the organised one, calm under pressure. You enjoy using your initiative and problem-solving skills to identify the best course of action ahead of time, going the extra mile to ensure you deliver a positive result.
You can build and maintain strong relationships, negotiate confidently, communicate well, and maintain your sense of humour even when things get busy. You can resolve issues and make tough decisions quickly, confidently, and are flexible to do whatever needs to be done to achieve a positive outcome.
You enjoy varied work, fast-moving environments and collaborating across teams You can work independently, but you also value being part of a supportive, multi-site team aligned around shared goals and values.
You demonstrate accountability by taking ownership of your work and delivering on commitments. You want to learn and understand, are naturally curious. You are flexible and willing to take a hands-on approach when needed, while maintaining excellent organisation and attention to detail. You bring creativity to your work, identifying insights, opportunities, and innovative approaches, and you thrive in a collaborative environment, leveraging the strengths of the team around you to achieve the best results.