Senior Event Operations Manager

• Lead end to end event planning and onsite delivery of 6-8 events per year
• Budget ownership of assigned portfolio including post event reporting
• Venue sourcing and negotiating contracts
• Supplier sourcing, negotiation and procurement. Leveraging and building partnerships
• Planning and fulfilment of all services including AV, signage, F&B, staging, branding, travel, onsite materials and delegate packs
• Preparing and coordinating client comms - sponsors, delegates, speakers and associated partners
• Internal team liaison and collaboration with sales, delegate sales, marketing, design and finance
• Financial reporting, processing invoices, commissions, budget reconciliation
• Liaison with the design department to ensure timely and accurate production of signage, catalogues, and all event content
• Managing the event APP and lead capture services
• Industry research, driving new initiatives to support team development

• Proven experience working with the events industry - conference/exhibition/meeting formats preferably (3+ years)
• High attention to detail
• Financial acumen, experience managing budgets up to £250k preferred
• Excellent communication skills – being able to liaise with all departments as well as work with multiple suppliers
• A proven ability to work to tight deadlines, with attention to detail under pressure on multiple events at once
• Excellent time management and organizational skills with experience of reporting on activity
• High level of IT competency, including word and excel
• Excellent interpersonal skills – ability to deal with a wide range of stakeholders
• Ability to prioritise, plan and organize workload often with conflicting time constraints
• Flexible team player, with the ability to work under pressure to short deadlines
• Ability to use initiative and work largely self-directed
• People management, experience of managing direct reports
• Negotiation skills

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