Event Operations Manager - B2B Events

Event Operations Manager - B2B Events

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Events Operations Manager to join the Operations team at a leading, niche media events and publishing business.

Our client is a leading media business and an influential community of senior life science decision makers that produces world class content, conferences and events for C-suite executives, investors and pharma deal makers.

The position of Events Operations Manager will play a key role in the operations management for the broad range of flagship events. These include, flagship b2b conferences and exhibitions.

There will be regular international travel to the US, Asia, Middle East and South America.

The successful candidate will play a key role in ensuring the pre-, during and post-event experience meets the high standards expected of our client’s c-level customers.

The role will report directly to the co-CEOs and Finance Director, working closely with the head of marketing, conference production and sales teams and the Head of IR / Networking on a range of repeat flagship events through to stage 1 launches.

The position is best-suited to a result driven individual with strong project management qualities who has a passion for delivering event experiences of an unrivalled nature, within time and budget and who is looking to prove themselves in a more autonomous role than what they are currently undertaking.

Tasks & Responsibilities

• All aspects of Client liaison, including speakers, sponsors and delegates. Ensuring clients have the premium event experience, through seamless customer service.
• Work with the event budget and understand the important of costs, all elements of cost allocation along with coding and following up on invoices. Gaining experience with P&Ls.
• Detailed structure to the full event planning process, with clear project timelines and milestones and management responsibility for the delivery and success of the events
• Constantly striving for the best cost while still delivering the premium experience.
• Liaison with external and internal suppliers such as procurement, venue, A/V, and printers.
• Travel to international events to run these onsite as part of the operations team.
• Fulfilment of deliverables associated with the sponsorship packages & delivering top level client service.
• Understanding the operations role in enhancing the event client experience, bringing ideas to the table in order to deliver and achieve these enhancements.

Skills & Experience

• Experience in working on conferences ideally international events 1-3 year’s experience ideally
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to flex as appropriate and build strong relationships
• Experience of developing and delivering new ideas and processes
• Exposure to cost management, forecasting and budgeting across multiple events
• Ambitious, energetic, positive and inquisitive constantly looking for the upside and ways of making things better

Lipton Media is a dynamic, proactive and progressive media recruitment agency solely dedicated to the media industry. We are leaders across media sales and creative opportunities. We cover: media sales, digital media sales, print sales, exhibition sales, event sales, conference sales, outdoor sales, radio sales, marketing, conference production and editorial jobs.

Our clients range from small start-up companies to FTSE 100 and 250 businesses. We work with people at every stage of their career from undergraduates looking for their first entry point into sales to senior managers and directors looking for their next challenge.