Senior Events Manager – Corporate Events, Experiences

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

💵 £65 / hour

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟠 Senior

🎪 Events

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HelloKindred

201 - 500 employees

💼 Consulting

🎯 Recruiter

📣 Marketing

Consulting • Recruitment • Marketing

HelloKindred is a global provider of marketing, creative, and digital talent, offering services that include both short and long-term contracts as well as direct hires. The company specializes in connecting businesses with creative and innovative talent through its vast pool of skilled professionals. HelloKindred emphasizes efficiency and cost-effectiveness in scaling global marketing efforts, offering both onshore and offshore services that enhance teams with design, content creation, and digital assets. By understanding client needs and fostering a culture of diversity and inclusion, HelloKindred delivers exceptional results through flexible staffing solutions tailored to modern business challenges.

📋 Description

• Own the strategic development and evolution of the 2027 Private Equity Portfolio Event Series • Translate business objectives and stakeholder briefs into compelling event concepts, themes and experiences • Generate and champion ideas for event formats, audience engagement, networking and interactive experiences • Advise senior stakeholders on event strategy, creative direction, format selection and impact opportunities • Build a forward-looking event calendar and maintain audience engagement between events • Manage end-to-end event planning, coordination and delivery from initial brief through execution, evaluation and post-event follow-up • Develop and maintain event plans, timelines, budgets, schedules, milestone trackers and documentation • Manage multiple workstreams, dependencies and deliverables on time and within budget • Coordinate venues, suppliers, speakers, presentations, event materials, schedules and attendee requirements • Oversee event logistics and attend in-person events, primarily at the client's London offices, as required • Build relationships with senior stakeholders, internal teams, external suppliers and strategic partners • Lead planning meetings, present recommendations, communicate progress and establish ownership of actions • Develop event agendas, themes, speaker contributions, presentations and supporting materials • Design audience experiences balancing presentations, discussion, networking and participation • Oversee invitations, registration processes, attendee communications, audience lists and attendance tracking • Develop, manage and monitor event budgets; source and manage suppliers and service providers • Establish measures of success including registrations, attendance, engagement, feedback and post-event activity • Lead post-event reviews, document lessons learned and implement improvements • Report on events' contribution to relationship development, audience engagement and business development opportunities

🎯 Requirements

• Significant experience in senior event management, ideally within a corporate, professional services or financial services environment • Proven experience managing corporate events end to end, from concept development and strategic planning through to execution and evaluation • Demonstrated ability to take strategic ownership of an event series and align event activity with business and commercial objectives • Strong creative thinking and concept development skills • Experience challenging established approaches, advising stakeholders and influencing decisions • Excellent project management, organisational and time management skills • Confidence engaging with senior stakeholders and business leaders • Strong supplier management, budget management, negotiation and resource coordination capabilities • Excellent communication, presentation and relationship-building skills • Proactive, solutions-focused approach with sound judgement and independent ownership • Strong attention to detail and ability to anticipate risks and resolve challenges • Commercial awareness and understanding of events' role in client relationships and business development • Ability to balance strategic thinking and creative development with hands-on event planning and operational execution • Ability to work independently while collaborating with internal teams, external partners and subject matter experts • Experience delivering executive-level events for CEOs, CFOs, senior functional leaders and decision-makers (desirable) • Background in professional services, consulting, financial services or large corporate organisations (desirable) • Exposure to private equity, investment management or private equity-backed businesses (desirable) • Familiarity with thought leadership events, industry roundtables, networking experiences and flagship corporate activations (desirable) • Working knowledge of CRM systems, marketing automation platforms, event registration tools and shared project management systems (desirable) • Experience coordinating content development, marketing communications and post-event engagement initiatives (desirable) • Experience measuring event performance and using audience insights, stakeholder feedback and commercial outcomes to inform future strategy (desirable) • Must be legally authorized to live and work in the country where the position is based without requiring employer sponsorship • Specific private equity or asset and wealth management expertise is not essential

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote work options • Hybrid work setup • Project-based engagement with potential planning and onboarding support beforehand • Opportunity to shape strategy and creative direction for a high-profile corporate event series • Meaningful ownership of event concepts and execution • Opportunity to support business development and strengthen senior client relationships • Inclusive and equal opportunity hiring practices

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