Events Executive – 14month FTC - Legal Experience

Events Executive – 14month FTC - Legal Experience required
£40,000 - £45,000
City (hybrid)
 
Our client is a global organisations, looking for a proactive and self-motivated Events Executive, who has experience managing a portfolio of events internationally. You will play an integral part of the team who will need to hit the ground running.
 
THE ROLE:
 

• Managing a portfolio of events UK based and internationally, covering seminars, webinars, breakfast meetings, private dinners and forums.
• Implement the event process end to end including; taking the brief from Partners and Business Development, advising on best practice, making suggestions on format, creating and managing event budgets, working with suppliers or agencies, booking rooms, sourcing catering and creating badges.
• Managing events onsite and additionally managing online webinars using our webinar platform ON24.
• Working with the Events Team and Business Development to understanding specific needs and objectives at the earliest appropriate stage and proposing approaches that could best achieve these aims.
• Creating event invitations and further communications on Vuture. Making and managing event lists on our CRM (client relationship management) system OnePlace. Working alongside the firm’s marketing systems team to assist in targeting and event invite/attendance analysis.
• Defining and implementing a programme of events with the Business Development Managers that support the firm in achieving its strategic objectives.
• Ensuring all event and sponsorship budgets are maintained correctly. Contract negotiation and management of all event expenditure with suppliers is key.
• Ensuring that events are communicated both internally and externally by using a variety of channels such as the website, the intranet and our internal event calendar.
• Staying ahead of new venue openings, technologies and entertainment ideas, positioning yourself as an event expert to stakeholders in the firm.
• Sourcing, negotiating and managing suppliers.
• Analysing trends and patterns in event statistics to ensure the most effective strategies are followed.

 
THE PERSON

•  Proven experience delivering events across the UK and Europe, professional services is essential, highly desirable legal industry
• A good understanding of the technology used for events and confident in learning new software.
• Experience of using alternative channels to enable us to effectively reach a target audience and awareness of conference and seminar techniques that enable greater engagement and impact.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Excellent organisational and time management skills, with the ability to prioritise competing deadlines.
• To have a proactive work ethic, working well and effectively under pressure.
• Manging the balance between demonstrating positivity and support for key internal sponsors, while clearly managing expectations.
• Experienced using ON24 highly desirable, or any other Webinar hosting platform
• Computer literacy, including Word, Excel and Microsoft Office suite of applications. Experience using a CRM system and/or webinar platform is desirable.

 
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