Event Staffing and Recruitment Manager

The Role

The Staffing \& Recruitment manager is responsible for ensuring we have brilliant teams scheduled and booked on to deliver our high\-quality events and services. You will maintain relationships with all our key talent pool and agencies to keep the very best individuals engaged and excited to work with Social Pantry. A key skill is ensuring jobs are booked within required margines will still delivering well operationally.

You will fine, nurture and develop our pool of event operations talent – from serving staff, to bartenders to chefs. A keen skill and experience in recruitment and training is required. Previous event management experience is a must, so you know what you’re looking for in candidates and are able to jump in and support when needed.

Roles and Responsibilities

Staffing Operations

· Recruitment and management of all event staff across Social Pantry Events. This includes both agency staff and freelance teams. And providing advice or support to venue staffing teams.

· Work with multiple staffing agencies to ensure appropriate resources are scheduled for each event.

· Attend weekly operational meetings to discuss future events and required bookings; and review past events and feedback

· Processing staff timesheets and reconciling against client invoicing, for both agency staff and freelance event managers.

· Manage and collate staffing feedback, acting on it as necessary with appropriate actions

· Submission of weekly forecast targets and savings against labour budget on an event\-by\-event basis, enabling gross profit targets and budgets to be met on a monthly basis.

· Ensure quoting on internal systems is correct for all events to hit the required margin and cross check all planner job sheets

· Take on site visits when necessary to understand event needs and be present on events where a coordinator is required for sign in or management purposes

· Support event operations when necessary

Employee Engagement and Agency Management

• Maintain accurate and up to date records for all casual, freelance and agencies and recruitment trackers


• Ensure that all policies and procedures of the company are adhered to


• Manage and build strong relationships with all external suppliers and agencies


• Ensure all staff complete and attend any/all training required by them

\-• Organise and deliver regular training sessions throughout the year for various levels of employees to ensure brand knowledge and standards and operational skillsets are at the required level

Recruitment

• Build and maintain strong talent pipeline through all of Social Pantry’s channels and partners


• Facilitate onboarding process to ensure a smooth and informed induction to the business


• Work closely with the Operations Team and People Director to ensure that our recruitment and selection for temporary and permanent job roles, freelancers/contractors, staffing for events are suitable for each role they are in

Job Type: Full\-time

Pay: £40,000\.00\-£42,000\.00 per year

Benefits:

• Company events


• Company pension


• Employee discount


• Employee mentoring programme


• Referral programme


• Sick pay

Ability to commute/relocate:

• London SW11 3SS: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Experience:

• Events management: 4 years (preferred)


• Staff training: 1 year (preferred)


• Recruiting: 2 years (preferred)

Work authorisation:

• United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: In person

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