EVENT MANAGER - LARGE SCALE VENUE

Posted 13 May 2021
Salary£Excellent
Location
Job type Permanent
DisciplineEvent Recruitment Agency
Reference17777/001_1620921744
Contact NameLive Recruitment

Job description

Are you looking for a fantastic step up in your career, joining one of London's most iconic venues?

THE COMPANY
This iconic London based venue hosts a range of ever-growing, eclectic, large scale events such as exhibitions, festivals, live sporting events, concerts, theatre shows and outdoor experiences.

Established nearly 150 years, they have a broad base of interesting clients from both agencies and end users. The multi-purpose venue has both indoor and outdoor space, offering a versatile backdrop for a wide range of business, as well as having an exciting in house event programme!

THE ROLE
With a growing amount of events and existing clients ramping up work, there is now the opportunity for an experienced Event Manager to take responsibility managing a proportion of the venues large scale events.

This is a broad role that includes:

  • Planning and delivering a range of large scale events
  • Managing budgets of varying size
  • Working closely with internal teams
  • Managing event P&L in order to support accurate reconciliation
  • Maintaining and developing client and stakeholder relationships
  • Successfully managing contractors and suppliers
  • Holding client meetings & site visits
  • Creating and adhering to event timelines and demonstrate compliance with standard operating procedures
  • Preparing the venue for event open in accordance with set up procedures
  • Participating in the creative development of the events programme

THE CANDIDATE
The ideal candidate must have previous experience of managing and delivering large scale events for a minimum of 5,000pax gained from working within large scale venue. Experience delivering music concerts and/or festivals would be highly advantageous.

This role would be perfect for an existing Event Manager, Account Manager or Senior Event Executive who has managed events for 5000+ capacity. An IOSH qualification would be beneficial.

In return they offer a whole host of excellent employee benefits including 28 days holiday, tickets to leading events, life insurance and transport and childcare vouchers, as well as the chance to be a part of a nationally recognised venue hosting some of the country's biggest events!

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Live specialises in all disciplines (and at all levels) in events, exhibitions and experiential. If this position isn't quite what you're looking for please visit www.live-recruitment.co.uk to view all of the opportunities we are recruiting.