Essential Duties and Responsibilities:  

• Stakeholder & onsite management: Communicate with delegates, speakers, and sponsors; represent the campaign and Hanson Wade onsite (international travel).

• Venue, suppliers & logistics: Manage conference hotels, external suppliers (AV, tech, signage, hostesses), and staff flights/accommodation.

• Event delivery & materials: Create/proof event documentation, build running orders, and deliver mobile apps for larger campaigns.

• Planning, budget & collaboration: Oversee budgets, work closely with campaign project teams to meet objectives, and support the wider function as needed.

Goals: 

We are looking for a highly motivated, pro-active individual who possesses excellent communication and time management skills. The applicant must work well under pressure and have the ability to prioritise responsibilities and meet deadlines. 

Knowledge skills and abilities:  

• Professional mindset & customer focus: Proactive, enthusiastic, flexible, and passionate about event management; delivers excellent service to stakeholders of all seniority.

• Communication & collaboration: Communicates clearly in writing and verbally, provides regular feedback, treats internal teams as customers, and collaborates effectively.

• Problem-solving & initiative: Puts forward ideas, proposes solutions, asks insightful questions, and demonstrates strong self-motivation.

• Organisation & resilience: Highly organised, able to prioritise workloads, work under pressure, manage multiple deadlines, and perform well independently or as part of a team.

Education and experience:  

• Must have higher education degree or similar (Event Management degree preferred) 

• Previous event management experience is preferred 

• Previous experience with event software is preferred 

Why Choose Us?

• Private health and life insurance

• Hybrid working arrangement – 1/2 days a week in the office

• A range of different social clubs such as, book club, five-a-side, parents support network, chess club and more…

• 1 extra day of annual leave each year, up to 30 days of annual leave (not including public holidays)

• Access to our Wader Hub benefits platform which include, retail, gym, hospitality, and wellness discounts

• Sabbatical options after 2 and 5 years

Salary: £27,000

We will be in touch with candidates in the new year with application updates.

Please note this role requires the right to work in the UK.