We are Company of Cooks, and we believe brilliant food and drink starts with brilliant people. For over 25 years, we’ve been part of some of the UK’s most loved cultural destinations, from historic palaces and botanical gardens to buzzing galleries and performance spaces, running the cafés, restaurants, bars and events that bring these incredible places to life.
Our values - Craft, Creativity and Community - guide everything we do. They shape how we work together, how we support our partners, and how we make each guest feel welcome. If you care about food, people and doing things properly, you’ll feel right at home here.
Wherever we are, we do more than serve. We bring places to life through food, service and creativity and we’re looking for an Event Manager to join our team at Olympia.

THE ROLE:

Olympia is an iconic venue hosting large scale exhibitions since 1886 that is currently going through an extensive regeneration project. Working in a large fast paced environment. You will work alongside venue managers to execute premium events across retail, stand catering and hospitality for events such as Ideal Home Show, Decorex and London Book Fair.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• The main point of contact for the show organizer on all matters relating to hospitality, retail and stand catering
• Manage 1 event coordinator
• Produce bespoke packages and promotions alongside the account Director for each show
• Forecast revenue
• Drive revenue generation and upsells for each event
• Manage invoices, debtors for each show
• Raise deposit and final invoices for each show
• Assist the coordinator with contacting exhibitors for stand catering
• Compile post show reports
• Create function sheets and tasks in the events system ( Rendezvous)
• Weekly updates on what has been achieved to generate revenue to the Account Director and Regional Director