Senior Event Manager FT Live
Senior Event Manager FT Live
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About Us
The Financial Times is one of the worlds leading news organisations globally recognised for its authority integrity and accuracy with a mission to deliver quality information and services worldwide.
At the FT curiosity thrives and ambitious thinking is rewarded. Here youre given the chance to reach millions create work that matters and deliver impartial journalism in a polarised world.
In our warm collaborative culture youll connect with a diverse community of experts who support your growth career aspirations and wellbeing.
Your future at the FT will be filled with opportunities that challenge and inspire you. With no fixed path youll discover new skills and forge a career that can take you anywhere.
Build a newsworthy career at the FT.
Our Commitment to Diversity Equity and Inclusion
We believe in the power of unique perspectives and want all voices in our organisation to be heard respected and valued. A supportive workplace is one where employees feel they can be themselves and operate to their full potential. We are committed to removing barriers for everyone with a focus on addressing those faced by underrepresented groups.
FT Live overview:
Financial Times Live (FT Live) is the conferences and events division of the Financial Times newspaper and its group publications. Our mission is to bring our global executive audiences the very latest in knowledge and opinion and connect them to one another.
Chaired by senior FT journalists the 200plus core events strategic forums and digital webinars organised by FT Live every year gather preeminent public and private sector decisionmakers visionaries and strategists from the worlds most important economies and industries for agendasetting debates that cover the key issues of our time.
From unique experiences such as the FTWeekend Festival to our seniorlevel business summits such as the award winning Global Boardroom FT Live has become one of the FT Groups most successful and fastestgrowing divisions and is at the forefront of the FTs accelerated development as a crucial interactive information source across numerous platforms.
Summary of role:
In this role you will have responsibility for the start to finish logistics for international inperson digital and hybrid events ranging in size from intimate roundtables to fullday events including webinars workshops custom awards and multisponsored events.
Job Specification:
We are looking for an organised and professional candidate that is confident when presenting at all levels with senior internal and external partners to deliver outstanding inperson and digital / hybrid events and ensure all expectations are met and exceeded within budget.
Key responsibilities include:
Flawless event :delivering quality events in keeping with the FT high standard consistently optimising the brand experience for delegates speakers and sponsors. Coordinating the detailed delivery of assigned events from start to finish including project managing allocated events onsite and/or digitally.
Budgetary control:ensuring budgets are maintained costs are controlled with suppliers and negotiated without compromising quality. Preparation and maintenance of realistic forecasts and budgets. Checking all event related invoices for processing. Submitting complete and accurate accounts to deadlines.
Speaker and editorial management:offering comprehensive support and management throughout the speaker and editorial team onboarding process optimizing their experience in the leadup during and postevent.
Sponsor management:ensuring that all contracted deliverables are met to the highest standard finding ways of contributing to clients.
Suppliers:reviewing managing and negotiating contracts with venues and event vendors serving as single point of contact and using costsavings.
Team teamwork:Settingup and steering the project meetings with other members of the project team to ensure smooth delivery.
Mentoring and guiding event assistants and managers working on key events / special projects to ensure targets are met.
Chipping in ideas to the improvement of FT Lives internal operating processes for inperson digital and hybrid event delivery.
Candidate Specification:
Confident able to work with minimum supervision to deadlines and remain calm under pressure
Extremely organised able to multitask work on multiple events at the same time excellent time management and prioritisation while remaining deadline focused
Excellent social skills able to look after people at all levels good written communication and confident telephone / video call manner.
Highly numerate
Accurate confident diligent to detail meticulous and well organized
Solutions and results oriented
Proactive approach willingness to show initiative and accept responsibility
Able to learn new skills quickly especially around tech and digital software
Flexibility to travel nationally and internationally as public health advisories allow
Experience Required:
Demonstrable experience delivering inperson virtual and hybrid events particularly in the B2B space
Strong project management skills
Live polling/Q&A App and other engagement tool
Whats in it for You
Our benefits vary by location but we are committed to providing bestinclass perks across all our offices. These include generous annual leave medical cover inclusive parental leave packages subsidised gym memberships and opportunities to give back to the community. Full details of our benefits are availablehere. Weve embraced a 50 hybrid working model (averaging two to three days onsite) that fosters trust and remote adaptability while encouraging inperson camaraderie and peer learning. Additionally we are open to accommodating specific flexible working pattern requests for all roles where feasible.
Accessibility
We are a disability confident employer and Valuable 500 signatory. Please let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments/personalisation as part of the application process or to enable you to attend an interview. If you would like to discuss your requirements or have any questions emailand a member of our team will be happy to help.
Further Information
At the FT we embrace innovation and the use of technology and appreciate that individuals may leverage AI tools as part of their job application process. Whilst we are happy for you to use AI to assist with your application it is essential that all information provided is authentic and accurately represents your skills experience and qualifications. Candidates should be aware that the use of AI throughout the application process may be monitored to ensure a fair and transparent hiring process for all.
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Required Experience:
Manager
Employment Type
Full-Time
