186 Best entry technology Jobs in United Kingdom (April 2026)

Event Manager

4 days ago

Croydon

• Business: emap, • ___: ___, • Base Location: Croydon, London, • Employment Type: Full-time, Permanent, Hybrid, • Salary: £32,000 – £35,000 DOE + Bonus About our company and the brand: emap is a progressive B2B media, content, events, subscription and networking business. We connect influential people and organisations with a high-value network of decision-makers, data and ideas through our industry-leading B2B portfolio of brands. Quality Food Awards (QFA) has been running for over 45 years in the UK and over 10 years in Ireland. QFA is a large-scale product awards programme for the grocery retail and foodservice sectors. Overall Purpose of the Role: The Event Manager will be responsible for overseeing the logistics for QFA’s awards, judging and bespoke events. Working within a team of 3, alongside QFA’s Marketing Manager and Sales Manager the Event Manager will report into the QFA Brand Director and be responsible for all operational elements of the QFA event portfolio. The Event Manager will work in a hybrid setting, based in our Croydon office, 3 days per week and working from home 2 days a week. During judging periods, the Event Manager will be expected to work onsite, up to 5 days a week, sometimes for periods of up to 3-4 weeks. The Event Manager will be expected to travel regularly, particularly to Dublin, where we run the Irish Quality Food and Drink Awards and Judging. The successful candidate will assume logistical responsibility of the QFA event portfolio and will oversee the events from inception through to execution. Key Responsibilities: • Manage a network of contract and freelance support in the lead up and during judging events taking ownership of recruitment and onsite processes., • Collaborate with central operations team and utilise junior support where required throughout the year, identifying key points for additional support., • Become an ambassador for the brand, attend networking events and build a network of senior contacts in the industry. Build exceptional working relationships with judges., • Manage a portfolio of pre-defined leading industry awards and judging days (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. Tracking and monitoring P&L of individual events – including revenue, costs and profit, • Thorough knowledge and tight control of the cost base for each event, ensuring profit targets are beaten, • 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, judges 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 collates customer feedback identifying areas for improvement., • Fulfill 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, particularly new launches in the grocery retail sector, • Proof-reading content throughout the event process., • Responsible for ownership, accountability, and reporting for all logistical elements of the allocated events, • Implementing and scheduling event timelines and planning cycle according to planning framework, ensuring all deadlines are adhered to., • Managing and assisting with full awards entry process., • Managing awards judging days – both in person and virtually. Inviting and maintaining regular communication with judges and VIPs., • Accurate and regular reporting upwards of revenues, profits and KPI’s vs target, recording weekly entries and shortlist conversion rates., • Communicate regularly and coherently all relevant information and key developments with your line manager and full project team., • Working with AV providers to create full-scale first class event production, collating shortlist, winners, and sponsors content to create awards presentations etc., • Liaise with event venues on menus, final numbers, specific event requirements and function sheet., • Produce Risk Assessments and collate Health & Safety documentation from all third-party suppliers., • Working with the Marketing and Content teams to deliver on brand digital and print collateral including proofing and testing event websites, ensuring all event content is brand-aligned and meets guidelines. Skills and Experience: • Able to demonstrate experience working in a B2B role in awards., • Experience in delivering complex projects/bespoke events, ability to apply own initiative and ideas to process implementation., • Exceptional attention to detail and organisation skills., • Demonstrable knowledge of managing costs within a budget., • Experience of risk assessments/health and safety/contingency planning, • Ability to network, connect and foster relationships of a senior level, • A personal passion or work experience in food and drink preferred, • Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills Core Competencies: • Exceptional verbal and written communication, with strong negotiation skills., • A strategic thinker with excellent planning, and organisational skills., • The ability to work well under pressure, maintaining high standards 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 effectively., • Takes a creative approach to every-day challenges, • Capability to multitask effectively, and prioritise a high-volume workload across multiple projects., • Can demonstrate sound judgement with the ability to interpret and analyze complex and sensitive information., • A team player, but secure working independently and on own initiative., • Proactive and confident – Not afraid to constructively challenge ideas, where appropriate., • Confident at building strong working relationships both internally and externally., • Willingness to travel abroad for events and be onsite for long periods of time. Personal Attributes: • Confident and enthusiastic events professional, • Organised and resourceful, • Self-motivated, self-sufficient and accountable, • Deadline driven and results orientated, • Team player, • Sharp attention to detail, • Adaptable and flexible to change 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 organisational 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, • 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 . 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.

Accelerated Operator Programme

5 days ago

City of London

Accelerated Operator Programme It's Sunday evening and you have that feeling again. Not dread. You don't dread the work. You're good at the work. That's the problem. You're sitting in a flat you can afford because of a job that looked like exactly the right move a few years ago, and the work is fine. The team is smart. The clients are serious. The money is real. But you keep doing the maths. Partner in a decade if everything goes right. A lifetime of Mondays that look like this Monday. And the thing that made you choose this path in the first place, the hunger to do something genuinely hard, to be in the room where it matters, to build something you can point at and say I did that, is the same thing that's telling you this isn't it. You haven't failed. You've finished. The instinct that drove you to pick the hardest path available is the same instinct that's making you look for the next one. You don't need to be rescued from consulting, banking, or law. You need an arena that matches the intensity you already have. You've looked at the options. You could move to another firm and do the same work under a different logo. You could join a startup and get responsibility with no infrastructure, no revenue, and no proof it works. You could go in-house at a big corporate and wait a decade for a P&L. You could join big tech and be a smart cog in a very large machine. Every option trades away the thing you actually want: real ownership of real outcomes, now, inside something that is already working and scaling fast. Healf is opening a small number of seats for exceptional people leaving prestige tracks who are ready to become commercial operators inside Europe's fastest-growing company. Real seats. Real accountability. Real outcomes from day one. Not a graduate scheme. Not a rotation. Not a soft landing. Healf is Europe's fastest-growing company. Number one on the FT1000, number one on the Sifted 100. From £1m to over £100m in under three years, with a small, talent-dense team and an electric culture with day one founder intensity. Now we're aiming for £1bn in the next three. We curate the world's best wellbeing brands across The Four Pillars™: EAT, MOVE, MIND, SLEEP. That's the first chapter. The next chapter is harder and more interesting. We are moving from one market to many, from e-commerce to a technology platform, and from curating wellbeing to defining it. We are a health company, so we think we should act like one. At its fullest expression, Healf redefines what wellbeing means for tens of millions of people. Why this programme is Healf You were trained to be brilliant inside structured environments. This is where you find out what you can do without the structure. To own a problem end-to-end when nobody is telling you what the answer should be. To make decisions when the data is incomplete and the consequences are real. To operate at the pace of a company that grew a hundred times in three years and is planning to do it again. We've built this deliberately: a structured programme that takes people who've already proved they're exceptional and gives them the context, the autonomy, and the accountability to become the operating backbone of a company scaling from £100m to £1bn across multiple markets. Everything you learned in your first career was preparation. This is where you use it. And you'll use it differently from anyone who came before you. Healf is building one of the most AI-native operating models in Europe. Every operator in this programme will have access to the tooling, the training, and the environment to work at the frontier of what AI makes possible. The consulting analysts of 2015 had Excel. You will have Claude. The leverage that gives you is something most companies haven't figured out yet. We have. At Healf, AI is not the thing that replaces you. It is the thing that makes you dangerous. The work You will join a real seat from day one. Where you sit depends on where the company needs you most and where you'll have the greatest impact. If there's a seat available on a rocket ship, you get on. You don't ask which seat. The problems span the full breadth of the commercial operation: → Commercial and Growth. Healf acquires, converts, and retains half a million regular customers. Somewhere in that engine, there is a lever that would change the trajectory of the business if someone smart enough pulled it the right way. You find the lever. You pull it. You own the number. → International and Strategy. Project Atlas is taking Healf from the UK into Germany and beyond. Market entry, competitive positioning, pricing, operations, and the hundred decisions that determine whether a new market succeeds or fails. This is strategy that has to work on the ground, not in a presentation. → Operations. Healf ships hundreds of thousands of orders. Every out-of-stock, every late delivery, every margin leak starts in the system that moves product from supplier to customer. A single process improvement here can be worth more than a quarter of consulting fees. One cohort. One bar. Scorecards at 6, 12, and 18 months. Progression based on output, not tenure. Cross-functional exposure built in so you understand the whole system, not just your lane. What you will have built in a year → A track record of commercial outcomes you can point to and say: I did that → Fluency across the full commercial operation of a business scaling internationally → The operating skills that the prestige track doesn't teach: ownership under ambiguity, speed under pressure, judgement with imperfect information → A clear path to functional leadership in a timeframe that would take years on the track you're leaving → Fluency with AI tooling that puts you years ahead of your peers at conventional companies → The beginning of a genuine ownership stake in one of the fastest-growing companies in Europe. This is not a stepping stone to somewhere else. It is the place where operator becomes owner. How fast? Your first meaningful result should come within your first month. The work is real and the feedback loops are short. Why you're Healf You chose the hardest path available to you and you excelled. Consulting, banking, law, or big tech. You got in because you're genuinely exceptional, and you performed once you were there. That track record is real and we take it seriously. Everything you learned is the foundation for what comes next. You are commercially minded. You think naturally about outcomes, trade-offs, and what actually moves the number. You might not have run a P&L, but you understand the logic of one. You move fast and you don't wait for permission. The thing that frustrated you most in your current role is the pace. You wanted to act and instead you waited for consensus, approvals, or the next meeting. You are curious about AI in a way that goes beyond the headlines. You've used Claude or ChatGPT not because someone told you to, but because you wanted to see what was possible. Maybe you've automated parts of your own workflow. Maybe you've built something with it that surprised you. You don't need to be technical. You need to be genuinely curious. We will give you the tools, the support, and the space to become one of the most AI-fluent operators in the country. That is not a perk. It is the defining skill of the next decade, and this programme is designed to give it to you. You have built something outside the structured path. A side project, a small business, a community, a wellness practice you take seriously. Something that took initiative and persistence and that nobody asked you to do. Maybe you don't even put it on your CV. But it's the thing that tells you what you actually care about, and it's the thing that tells us who you really are. Healf is your identity expressed as a company. You track your sleep, research supplements, think about what you eat, and want to understand what actually works. Wellbeing isn't a market to you. It's a genuine interest. The idea that you could build your career inside a company that exists to help people live better isn't just appealing. It feels obvious. Signals we're looking for → Your most meaningful achievement so far, inside or outside your professional career. What did you do, what changed because of it, and what did it teach you about how you operate? → Evidence you have built or created something without being asked. Not a work project. Something you initiated. → A moment where you moved faster than the system around you allowed and it made a difference. → Something that tells us wellness is personal for you, not just a career opportunity. The deal Competitive base plus meaningful equity for the right person. We ask a great deal of the people who work here. We expect full ownership and a genuine commitment to give this chapter everything you have. In return, we will give you the same: everything we have, invested in your growth, your wellbeing, and the defining skills of the next decade. We have built the fastest-growing company in Europe with a team small enough that every person in it shapes the outcome. That is still true today. The next person we hire will change the trajectory of the company. If the most important work of your career is ahead of you, this is the place to do it. One question Include your answer in your CV or cover letter attachment when you apply. Pick one: • Healf's customer retention rate has plateaued. You have twelve months of purchase data, a CRM tool, and a small budget. What is the first thing you do in your first two weeks, and how do you know if it's working?

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