Business Operations Associate - Festival of Creativity

Handle Recruitment; City Of London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency is seeking a Business Operations Executive for an international festival of creativity in London. The role involves assisting with performance dashboards, data management, and systems maintenance. Candidates should have operations experience and a passion for marketing or events. This is a temporary role starting in January with potential international travel in June.

Qualifications

• Experience in operations, administration, or data management.
• Proficient in processing large data sets and verifying information.
• Passion for marketing, advertising, media, or events.

Responsibilities

• Assist in maintaining the performance dashboard.
• Communicate bugs with developers.
• Create reports regarding the entry system.

Skills

Operations experience

Data management

CRM systems

Interest in marketing and events

Job description

Handle Recruitment are seeking candidates experienced in working with data and passionate about events, marketing, advertising or other areas of media and creativity to join an international festival of creativity in the run up to the 2026 event. The festival is highly reputable and widely regarded as the Oscars of the advertising, brand marketing and creative communications world so is a fantastic opportunity for candidates looking to gain invaluable experience within the creative industries!

As the Business Operations Executive your responsibilities will include:

• Assisting the Awards Ops Executive in maintaining the team's performance dashboard using data lead generation and engagement, account engagement and query handling
• Assist in identifying and communicating bugs with systems to developers.
• Fully embracing and learning about the technology that will set the team up for success
• Becoming an expert on the entry system, website and downloadable documents to be able to assist the Awards Ops Executive in creating reports
• Assisting in maintaining each festivals' worksheet by updating data for paid and pending numbers, daily leads, sorting and filtering of queries to identify new business leads, verification of leads
• Potential: On-site logistics and events work for Awards related tasks.

To be successful in the role you will have:

• Experience in operations, administration or data management
• Experience processing large quantities of data, verifying information and updating document formats. Experience with CRM systems is also ideal.
• A passion or active interest in creative areas such as marketing, advertising, media or events
• Availability to begin a temporary role in January and to work full-time hours, with the potential of travelling internationally in June
• Additional languages beneficial but not necessary

Please apply now for a further conversation!

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