Events Executive/Coordinator, Financial Services – Hybrid
- Salary: £45,000 + bonus + benefits
- Location: Central London
- Consultant: Philippa Birdwood | 020 7588 8999
- Reference: 22943
Do you have 3-5 years’ experience of managing professional business events?
Have you had responsibility for the end-to-end management of events with anything from 20 – 300 attendees?
Are you methodical, highly organised with excellent project management skills? And can you think on your feet and remain calm when plans are changing?
Do you have a strong interest and understanding of financial services, private equity and venture capital?
If you are a confident communicator and a collaborative team player who always looks to deliver excellence, we’d love to hear from you.
A leading membership organisation in the private capital arena is looking for an enthusiastic Events Executive/Coordinator to join their team. The events will consist of one day conferences, forums, corporate dinners, webinars, breakfast roundtables and international roadshows.
What you’ll be doing day-to-day:
Full end-to-end event planning, management and delivery of designated events
- Sourcing and booking venues and suppliers
- Liaising with the marketing team to ensure all event marketing activities are completed
- Liaising with venues on setup, catering and audio-visual requirements
- Researching, arranging and managing speakers for events
- Collecting event feedback and producing debrief reports
- Delegate management; including event bookings and correspondence
- Maintaining records of attendee numbers and sales in CRM Evovos and relevant spreadsheets
- Working on-site ensuring the smooth delivery of all events
- Wrapping up post event including full evaluation and reporting
- Ensuring the CRM is updated
- Managing expenditure against event budgets and providing status report to Events Director post events
- Working with the commercial team to ensure gross profit achieved or exceeded
- Providing status reports to Events Director post events
The skills you need to bring:
- 3-5 years’ previous experience of the full end to end process of managing professional business events
- Excellent organisational skills, able to manage multiple tasks while maintaining high quality standards
- Excellent writing, presentation and proof-reading skills with a high attention to detail
- Confident communication skills and a professional telephone manner
- Competency using Zoom or an event platform
- Experience of using both a CRM such as Microsoft Dynamics along with a CMS platform
- Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office
- Professional appearance and personal skills to act as an ambassador to both internal and external stakeholders
- Positive and proactive attitude