Events Manager (12-month FTC)
Job Introduction
- Manage the delivery of the firm’s event programme across in-person, digital and hybrid platforms; working closely with internal stakeholders and key suppliers.
- Deliver the DACB brand promise by offering a consistent level of experience across all events, both internally and externally facing.
- Ensure the appropriate application of the firm’s visual identity both physically and digitally across all event opportunities.
- Work closely with our procurement and risk teams to assess and manage risk.
- Ensure all aspects of event production are efficiently delivered including: room/venue bookings, catering, collateral and presentation production, preparation of delegate packs, mailings, registration etc, with a focus on effective ROI.
- Work closely with marketing colleagues and BD managers to develop targeted audience lists, manage the client invitation process, and post-event attendance reviews.
- Maintain CRM contact details resulting from invitation and RSVP process.
- Manages negotiations and relationships with venues, and external suppliers.
- Produce detailed event projects and logistics plans, ensuring event planning platforms, and relevant stakeholders are kept up to date.
- Work closely with Marketing to outline key objectives for each event, advise on best practice to achieve campaign/event objectives.
- Draft engaging copy for event related communications.
- Deliver event activities within the budgets set and monitor required client-spend protocol.
- Completing qualitative and quantitative post-event analysis for complete ROI reporting, engaging with marketing and BD team to provide assessment of success.
The Ideal Candidate
- ~3-5 years of experience in a relevant role.
- Confident working at pace; with project planning and management skills.
- Possess a high degree of initiative and independent judgment with excellent troubleshooting, decision-making, and follow-through skills.
- Strong communication skills, able to communicate effectively across all levels of seniority.
- A flexible mind-set focusing on the delivery of objectives rather than process oriented.
- Strong relationship building skills.
- Experience working to budgets.
- Strong negotiation skills with venues, suppliers and sponsors.
- High level of accuracy and attention to detail.
- Some experience managing a team.
About DAC Beachcroft
We're a leading international legal business with over 3,000 colleagues and a diverse range of capabilities. We're market leaders in insurance, health and real estate but with a full-service offering, including growing Financial Services and Tech capabilities. We represent a wide range of clients – from household names to government departments and NHS bodies. We act for nearly all of the top-20 UK and global insurers, we're 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-five housebuilders.
We are a fast-growing international business with offices around the globe. In addition to our 11 UK offices, we also have offices in Dublin, Madrid, Paris, Milan, Rome, Singapore, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru and Miami, plus a broad network of affiliations across the globe.
Working with us
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. Combine this with our supportive culture and hybrid working model, and you have: a Life that Works.
Our flexible approach means that we help our colleagues to be their best at work, while recognising that they have all sorts of different interests and commitments outside work.
We pride ourselves on our supportive, approachable culture. We are trusted, appreciated as individuals and embraced as part of a team. At DACB, we don’t just accept your differences, we celebrate and advocate for them. From bespoke solutions for our clients, to treating you as 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!
Note for Recruitment Agencies – the DAC Beachcroft LLP resourcing 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 resourcing team will not be accepted and with no introduction fee applicable. Our resourcing team can be contacted at recruitment@dacbeachcroft.com
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