Events Executive - Bristol

Job Introduction

DACBeachcroft has an exciting opportunity for a someone to join our Clients and Markets team as an Events Executive on a full-time, permanent, hybrid basis in our Bristol office. 

The Events Executive plays a pivotal role in delivering exceptional event experiences that align with our firm's strategic objectives. As a key support to the Events Manager, this position will contribute to the successful planning, execution, and evaluation of a diverse range of events. We're looking for a proactive, confident individual who can collaborate effectively to ensure each event reflects our brand ethos and creates lasting impressions.

This role will suit someone with experience in delivering face to face events in a similar role, ideally within a law of professional services environment. Knowledge of planning and hosting virtual events will also be highly advantageous.

We are a Disability Confident employer and guarantee to interview anyone with a disability, long term health condition or neurodiversity whose application meets the essential criteria for the role.  If this applies to you and you feel you meet the minimum criteria for this vacancy as set out in this advert then please contact recruitment@dacbeachcroft.com in confidence, quoting the reference number for this vacancy in the subject box of your email, and a member of the Recruitment team will be in touch.

Role Responsibility

On-site event support:

• Act as the on-site point of contact for stakeholders and clients during live events, ensuring seamless execution of event logistics, and resolve any issues promptly.
• Collaborate with catering and facilities teams, both internally and externally as needed to ensure event requirements are met as planned.
• Coordinate with internal and external speakers as needed. 

Event planning and production:

• Work autonomously to plan, and execute events, including conferences, webinars, and corporate hospitality.
• Coordinate with external agencies, to manage the logistics for venue selection, vendor management, catering arrangements, and AV equipment.
• Work collaboratively with marketing, design and digital teams as needed to prepare and collate event related assets, including presentations and brochures.
• Clearly outline objectives and key performance indicators (KPIs) with stakeholders to define success metrics for each event and ensure alignment with firm goals.
• Collaborate with internal teams to align event objectives with overall marketing goals, including working towards achieving targeted numbers.
• Collect and analyse post-event feedback to inform future event planning and improvements.

Communication and collaboration:

• Prepare and approve event related communications.
• Produce regular registration reports to be circulated to key stakeholders.
• Update our corporate website, and internal marketing hub, to notify clients and stakeholders of upcoming events. 
• Researching market trends and data to improve quality of events, including competitor events, invite designs, online event platforms and hybrid event formats.

The Ideal Candidate

Key Technical Knowledge:

• Experience of delivering successful face-to-face events is required, and knowledge of hosting virtual events (webinars) is desirable.
• Excellent organisation skills, with the ability to manage multiple projects and priorities simultaneously, whilst maintaining attention to detail.
• Interest in data analytics to inform decision making.
• Ability to work both autonomously, and as part of a team.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Extra Role Requirements:

• Travel may be required to support events in-person events. These will typically be in either our London (HQ) office, Bristol, or external venues.
• You will be required to support on events during 9am-5pm, Monday to Friday, with after-hours support for events required on occasion.

About the Company

We are a leading international legal business with over 2,900 colleagues and a diverse range of capabilities. We have 11 offices in the UK as well as offices in Dublin, Madrid, Paris, Milan, Rome, Singapore, Argentina Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Miami. We also have associations/alliances with firms in Malaysia, Brazil, Peru, Central America, the USA, Australia and Germany.

We are a broad-based commercial firm with a strong heritage in insurance, health and real estate. This is complemented by a fast-growing Business Advisory capability. We represent a wide range of clients, ranging from household names to government departments and NHS bodies. We act for all of the UK’s top-ten insurers, we are market leaders in the provision of strategic, commercial and regulatory advice to providers and commissioners in the health sector, and in real estate we advise all of the UK’s top-12 housebuilders.

We have an impressive legal pedigree, with 142 Chambers UK 2021 practice area and individual lawyer rankings. In Legal 500 UK 2021, the firm received a top tier ranking for 37 of its practice areas, and 58 DACB lawyers were singled out in the ‘Leading Individual' rankings.

Our successes have been recognised by the legal industry and the markets in which we operate. These accolades include two top prizes in the ‘Excellence in Business Development’ and ‘Excellence in Technology & Innovation’ categories of the 2020 Law Society Excellence Awards – the highest accolade for law firms in England & Wales. Our health sector team won the ‘Crisis Management Team of the Year’ award at the 2020 British Legal Awards for its support to the NHS at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, and our Cyber & Data Risk team received the ‘Business Development Innovation Award’ at the 2020 Legal Innovation Awards, as well as ‘Cyber Law Firm of the Year’ at the prestigious Insurance Insider Cyber Rankings Awards, for its market-leading suite of digital tools to help our clients prepare for and respond to cyber and data risk crises.

Our vision is to be leading business advisers, recognised for our insight and our outstanding commitment to clients, and for being the place where talented people want to work. For further details on our work and our culture, please visit www.dacbeachcroft.com.

Application Details

At DAC Beachcroft, we don’t just accept your differences we celebrate them.  From bespoke solutions for our clients, to treating you like an individual.  Our strength comes from your diverse ideas and bringing the whole you to work. So if you’re good at what you do, come as you are.  We welcome direct applications and are happy to talk flexible working.

We also want you to be at your very best.  Please feel free to let us know of any changes we can make at any point in the recruitment process that will help support your application.  If this opportunity sounds of interest to you, please make an application and submit your CV.  Your application will be dealt with in the strictest of confidence.

Note for Recruitment Agencies – the DAC Beachcroft recruitment team is responsible for managing all current vacancies through direct hiring and referrals wherever possible.  We do work with recruitment agencies and where we require external support we will formally release those vacancies to the agencies on our Preferred Supplier List deemed best placed to assist us.  Speculative CVs sent by any agency to any DAC Beachcroft employee without a specific request by the recruitment team will not be accepted and with no introduction fee applicable.  Our recruitment team can be contacted at recruitment@dacbeachcroft.com

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