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Event Manager - Professional Membership Body (international events)

Employer
Regan & Dean
Location
London (Central), London (Greater)
Salary
£38-40k DOE (plus excellent benefits)
Closing date
1 Jul 2022

Job Details

Leading global professional body - looking for a confident and super-organised Event Manager, ideally with membership body experience to join their friendly and expert team and work on varied international events - excellent benefits package, hybrid working and lots of varied events and stakeholder contact!

COMPANY
This leading Professional Body has global offices, and an extensive international membership of professionals, scientists, academics and policy makers (over 90k worldwide). They are a not-for-profit organisation and provide their members with a busy and varied event programme - the emphasis is on face-to-face events, designed to both support their professional and technical competencies, as well as provide great opportunities for peer networking through their programmes and varied events and exhibitions. Their events team produce a varied global event and networking programme - conferences, seminars, events and exhibitions - throughout the world, for both their member and public benefit. Based in central London alongside a great role this opportunity brings a great benefits package including private healthcare and the opportunity to work a compressed working week.

ROLE
As Event Manager you'll be joining a team of Event Managers and Event Co-ordinators - you'll be planning and delivering a portfolio of events (conferences, exhibitions, workshops, seminars and social events) - full end to end management -  liaising with contractors, hotels and exhibition centres.  Alongside the event logistical elements, we are looking for someone strong on communication, and used to dealing with Committees as a key part of the event process - you'll be working closely with the key stakeholders, and also authors, speakers and exhibitors.Your role will be well rounded, and focussed on superlative event delivery, and being the key conduit for Committee communication and co-ordination - so excellent stakeholder communication and management skills, alongside your brilliant event management skills.
Your role will include:

  • End to end event management (international events – from conferences to seminars and technical workshops) – virtual and face to face
  • Extensive liaison with committees & other stakeholder groups to ensure event objectives set and delivered on
  • Exhibition coordination & exhibitor liaison (when aligned exhibition)
  • Coordination of marketing, publicity & print production
  • Sponsorship support & sponsor liaison
  • Site visits & production schedules, on-site logistics including AV, F&B etc..
  • Speaker logistics & speaker coordination
  • Organising social events
  • Budgeting and financial management
  • International travel for meetings and events 

CANDIDATE
We're looking for a really good Event Manager - who loves the wider project management as well as the nitty gritty of event logistics. We're looking for someon who is able to lead from the front, ideally with experience working in a membership body, used to dealing with commitees and stakeholders, as well as having excellent event management skills.  You’ll have proven  extensive UK & European (and EMEA would be great!) b2b events experience, across varied event formats (conference, seminars, exhibitions), ideally gained from working for an association or professional body. Excellent organisation, event logistics, communication and analysis skills are a must – alongside strong speaker management experience and experience working extensively with steering groups or committees. From a personality and work ethic point of view, you’ll be a real “people-person” who is a confident, enthusiastic, meticulously detailed and very project-oriented events professional. You’ll be someone who will relish working on a busy portfolio of international events and exhibitions, and are able to be self motivated with excellent levels of service delivery and communication skills.  (Oil/Gas sector experience/knowledge is useful but not crucial).  Specific skills experience include:

  • Extensive experience of end-to-end planning of conferences/exhibitions and workshops/seminars etc, ideally internationally
  • Ideally from a Membership Body/Association background - with experience of managing committees or large senior or technical groups, dealing with varied speakers and stakeholders, managing, communicating with and attending committee meetings - keeping events and teams on track
  • Excellent planning and organisation skills, able to work on multiple projects simultaneously and meet constant deadlines
  • Understanding/experience of event sponsorship, event publicity and marketing
  • Agile across big picture planning and detail orientated
  • Ability to travel overseas for meetings, recces and on-site manage of meetings 
  • Experience of working on virtual event platforms and applications (desirable: Zoom, Swapcard, Mural, StreamYard, Vimeo)
     

If you’re an experienced Event Manager or Senior Co-ordinator and have been waiting for the right time to move, and like to lead from the front, then then this is the perfect time and role for you to take your career to the next stage in 2022!  

If your experience matches the key requirements and responsibilities as listed above, please reflect these in your CV and click “Apply” now.

Company

Check out all our events roles at www.regananddean.co.uk.

We have over 30 years at the heart of the events sector, and work on Event roles at all levels and in all its varied homes - from Inhouse/Corporate, Associations/Professional Bodies, Agencies, Publishing, Commercial Events companies, Charities, Venues - wherever event people are needed we are there to match great roles to great candidates. With over 30 years experience within the events sector we pride ourselves on remaining a flexible, ethical and hardworking recruitment consultancy that offers expertise, insight and support to our clients and candidates alike - passionate about events and events people.

We have 3 divisions: Events & Communications, Marketing, Office Support & HR. All divisions work across a full range of roles, from junior co-ordinators to senior director level, and, with hands-on experience in the fields they recruit into, our consultants are experts in their chosen areas.

Clients range from leading Event and Marketing Agencies to major Corporates, Financial Services, Associations, Commercial Conferences, Publishing, Venues, Entertainment and Charities.  We are therefore able to offer experienced candidates an unrivalled breadth of opportunities within their specialist fields, on a permanent, temporary or freelance basis throughout the UK 

Contact: 020 7409 3244

Website: http://www.regananddean.co.uk

 

 

Company info
Website
Telephone
0207 409 3244
Location
77 Queens Road
London
London
SW14 8PH
United Kingdom

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