Event Manager - The Lawyer

at  Centaur Media PLC

ABOUT THE LAWYER…

The Lawyer is an award-winning, market-leading brand. It focuses on the business of law – which law players have a distinct and winning strategy, which are financially performing, which are using tech to transform their services, and which are building sustainable cultures and organisations.
It has over 300 subscribing organisations, 60k individual users, including over 90% of the 50 largest UK and 50 largest US law firms operating internationally out of the London marketplace.

WHAT WE NEED FROM YOU…

• At least 3 years’ experience managing corporate events in a busy dynamic environment
• Experience running large scale Awards Ceremonies desirable
• Experience with running both virtual and in-person events
• Excellent project management skills, including balancing multiple projects simultaneously
• A “team player” attitude, with an ability to bring out the best in everyone you work with
• Pride in producing accurate work with consistently strong attention to detail
• Ability to think strategically and analytically
• Strong negotiation and influencing skills

• Full end-to-end project management on a wide range of events: Liaise with internal and external stakeholders; ensure all deadlines are met and that events are delivered to the highest standard.
• Drive and manage Awards processes: Work with the wider events team to help develop, grow and improve our Awards ceremonies; confirm judging panel; liaise with entrants; collate and communicate results; design and manage ceremony
• Build and maintain strong working relationships with venues across London and the UK, and other key suppliers of digital and F2F event services: Negotiate and manage contracting of suppliers; maintain strong awareness of innovations in the events industry and research new event tools to deploy; identify cross-portfolio cost-efficiencies;
• Build and manage annual budgets: Maintain accurate cost and revenue tracking across the events you are working on;
• Work alongside commercial team to draft branding and networking opportunities for event partners: Responsibility for the delivery of all non-content aspects of sponsorship packages
• Help identify where process improvements are needed across events: Communicate with internal stakeholders, draft solutions and present if needed; implement changes and continue to monitor impact