Event Project Manager
Hybrid working: 3 days in office
Beauty and lifestyle clients bringing influencer activations, incentive travel, brand dinners and major conferences to the table, with a good chunk of it delivered abroad. If that sounds like the kind of portfolio you'd like to work on, the Event Project Manager opening is worth a closer look.
- 25 days annual leave plus 8 bank holidays
- Annual bonus
- Private health cover (Medicash) and dental cover (BUPA)
- Life insurance at 2x salary with Employee Assistance Programme
- TOIL for late evenings and weekend work
- Discounted staff travel and Perkbox discount platform
This is a 360 end-to-end event agency with a no-ego culture and a client roster spanning beauty, tech, gaming and financial sectors. The EMEA team is boutique, close-knit and entirely female-led, covering everything from intimate dinners to large-scale international conferences. An Event Project Manager here works across a wide range of events, and people tend to stay once they're in.
The Role
The Event Project Manager sits within the bespoke team, leading full delivery of events up to £500k, managing client relationships and driving account growth alongside day-to-end project execution.
- Lead end-to-end delivery of events from brief to financial reconciliation
- Manage client relationships, delivering quarterly updates and event debriefs
- Oversee venue sourcing, supplier management and contract negotiation
- Produce and manage event project plans and delegate management
- Handle budget management and cost negotiation to optimise profitability
- Identify and pursue growth opportunities within existing and new accounts
- Travel onsite for event delivery and client meetings as required
A strong Event Project Manager for this role will have solid grounding in end-to-end event management, including budget oversight, supplier negotiation and client account management within an agency or similar environment. Organised, commercially aware and comfortable owning projects independently.
Experience with delegate management tools or an understanding of account growth and new-business development would be beneficial but is not essential.
Salary sits between £35,000 and £42,000, with a strong suite of perks, genuine commercial ownership and a team that backs the people in it. This Event Project Manager role is moving quickly, with interviews being booked now, so put your application in before it closes.
Live specialises in all disciplines (and at all levels) across events, experiential and exhibitions. If this position isn't quite what you're looking for please visit live-recruitment.co.uk to view all of the opportunities we are recruiting.
As a specialist events recruitment agency we help our clients build the most talented and diverse teams in the UK. We encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds, embracing diversity across all intersecting dimensions, including ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, well-being, abilities, and neurodiversity. We are dedicated to ensuring a supportive and accessible recruitment process. If you require any adjustments or accommodations for any reason, please do not hesitate to let us know.
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