City of London
• Business: emap, • Brands: Nursing Times, Construction News, Local Government Chronicle, New Civil Engineer, Ground Engineering, • Base Location: Fleet Street/Hybrid, • Employment Type: Full time, Permanent, • Salary: £ Competitive DOE + 20% Bonus Overall Purpose of the Role: As an Event Manager you are part of an enthusiastic and busy event operations team running conferences, exhibitions, bespoke business events, award ceremonies, and virtual/hybrid events throughout the year. Your role is key to the successful execution of our events portfolio. You will have operational responsibility from concept to delivery, using creativity and a keen eye for detail to deliver industry-leading physical and virtual events. Your aim is to produce commercially successful events that create quality business engagement for clients, enhancing and strengthening products and brands involved. emap brands rely on high quality events, and close relationships with the industries they operate within. As an Event Manager your role is at the forefront of those relationships, both internally and externally. This is a collaborative role which is both fast-paced and challenging while also being social. Key responsibilities: • Manage a portfolio of pre-defined leading industry awards, conferences and bespoke marketing solutions events (physical & virtual) on time, below budget, and to the required standard – ensuring that brand values are met, • Management of P&L/Budgets for individual events with a focus on value for money and maximising contribution to the wider business, • Building cross functional relationships with internal stakeholders to support the success and strategic aims of the event and/or brand, • Building strong relationships with suppliers including AV teams, venues, entertainers, etc negotiating to ensure the best value is achieved, • Manage customer relationships with critical and strategically important sponsors, speakers and delegates, acting as a point of contact. Problem solving, decision making and escalating issues as they arise. Ensuring that the overall experience is positive, exceeds expectations and Net Promoter Scores (NPS) are increased., • Collate customer feedback identifying areas for improvement, • Fulfil sponsorship deliverables with attention to detail to maximise return on investment, • Analysing year on year performance and leading or participating in event debrief discussions, identifying future trends or improvements, • Identifying areas for event growth and future opportunities for the brands, • Contributing to the development of our virtual and hybrid event strategy, • Drive continual improvement, event growth and best practice across all events, • Manage and maintain data in a responsible way in accordance with GDPR and internal data processing procedure, • Proof-reading content throughout the event process, • Ensuring all event content is brand-aligned and meets guidelines, • Manage, train and develop line reports to deliver high standard of events, • Take an active role in coaching and mentoring junior team members to ensure that the overall team are working to emap standards, values and processes, • Responsible for ownership, accountability and reporting for all logistical elements of the allocated events Skills and Experience: • Educated to degree level or equivalent, preferred but not essential., • Minimum 3 years event experience, • Corporate / B2B events experience advantageous., • Demonstrable knowledge of managing costs within a budget, • Advanced literacy and numeric skills required, • Excellent interpersonal skills, • Computer literate, • Negotiation skills, • Conference and awards experience preferred, • Experience of risk assessments/health and safety/contingency planning, • Client management would be preferred, • Skills in developing virtual event offerings, including webinars, podcasts, whitepapers. Core competencies: • A strategic thinker with excellent planning, and organisational skill., • The ability to work well under pressure in a fast-paced environment while meeting multiple deadlines., • Commercially focused with a strong understanding of finance, profit and loss statements and budgets., • Able to read and interpret data affectively., • Takes a creative approach to every-day challenges., • Enthusiasm and willingness to change and innovate processes., • Teamwork, partnership and collaboration, • Taking the lead Personal Attributes: • Curious and proactive: willing to try something new and encourage this in others., • Passion for events: creating meaningful experiences for our attendees and long-lasting sustainable futures for our brands., • Environmentally aware: supports emap’s objective of continuing to adapt our events to be more sustainable., • Customer and account focused, • Engaging, empathetic with ability to challenge at senior levels, • Personal credibility and gravitas to command respect from the team and the wider business and clients alike, • Self-motivated, self-sufficient and accountable, • Organised, tenacious and committed, • Punctual for all meetings – internal and external, • Positive and enthusiastic and engenders this in others, • Adapts well to and able to influence change, • Remains calm and professional under pressure What we offer Learning & Development: At emap, we believe that employee learning and development are the key drivers of our success. To ensure continuous growth and meet the ever-changing demands of the workplace, we provide an environment that fosters continuous development for our employees. Our employees are encouraged to identify their areas of personal and professional development aligned with our strategic areas, including management development, health, safety & wellbeing, sales, events management, marketing strategy, editorial, and information technology. We have a structured framework designed to help equip our employees with the necessary knowledge, skills, and behaviours to excel in their job roles, contributing to achieving our organizational objectives. To support our employees’ career development, we have designed specialized programs, as well as other stand-alone role-specific and generic courses, under the emap academy. Benefits: emap is part of Metropolis Group. Together we are committed to providing a happy and healthy place to work, so we offer fantastic benefits and perks to our employees. • 25 days of annual leave, with the option to buy or sell additional days. Pro-rata for part-time employees., • One additional day of leave per year- Celebration Day, • Health plan, • Life assurance, • Private virtual GP access, • Seasonal flu jabs available at the office, • Continuous learning & development opportunities, • In-house Excellence Awards and other innovation projects, • Cycle-to-work scheme, • Discounted gym memberships, • Retail discount vouchers, • Rail season ticket loans, • Pension scheme, • One paid volunteer day per year, • Annual Summer & Winter Celebrations, • Work from home during August, • Income protection and more Privacy: Metropolis Group respects the privacy of every person for whom we have personal data. We comply with data protection legislation such as the Data Protection Act 1998 and the General Data Protection Regulation which regulates the processing of data and ensures that your data is processed fairly and lawfully, is kept secure and only that data necessary for any processing is kept. You can see our privacy policy at www.metropolis.co.uk/privacy. Diversity and Inclusion: We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity and inclusion. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, age, religion or belief, pregnancy and maternity, marriage and civil partnership, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or disability status. How to apply: Please submit your CV and covering letter. Due to the volume of applications, we receive, we are unable to give individual feedback at the application stage, however if you are successfully shortlisted you will be contacted within 10 working days of your application.
