Events Lead

Eight Financial Advice; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 56,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work

Performance bonus

Company bonus

28 days holiday

Private medical insurance

Wellbeing support

Mortgage advice

Pension advice

Volunteer hours

Social events

Job summary

Eight Financial Advice is seeking an Events Lead to own end-to-end event delivery for client engagement and brand presence. You will manage planning, logistics and on-site execution, coordinating with venues, suppliers and internal teams to provide a seamless attendee experience.

The role requires hands-on event leadership, strong communication, and the ability to work outside office hours, including weekends.

Qualifications

• Experience planning and delivering corporate events.
• Ability to coordinate with venues, suppliers and staff.
• Willingness to work events outside standard hours, including weekends.
• Eligible to work in the UK.

Responsibilities

• Attend and contribute to internal planning and operational meetings to ensure seamless event delivery.
• Execute all events to a high standard following agreed plans.
• Manage event logistics including venues, suppliers, equipment, timings, and on-the-day coordination.
• Ensure guests receive clear, timely, and professional communications before and after events (logistics, joining instructions, follow-up).
• Manage guest registration, attendance tracking, and confirmations across all events.
• Ensure guests feel welcomed, informed and well looked after at all times.
• Inform New Enquiries Manager of upcoming events and coordinate related email communications.
• Support post-event follow-up communications ensuring a professional close to each event.
• Collaborate and hand over all lead and prospect attendees to New Enquiries Manager with full details.
• Capture social content at events and schedule content across channels per brand guidelines.
• Ensure content reflects EIGHT brand and event tone as approved by Brand & Marketing Specialist.

Skills

Event planning

Vendor coordination

On-site delivery

Stakeholder management

Communication

Job description

Events Lead
Eight Financial Advice - Whiteley/Totton/Bournemouth

Eight Financial Advice is a UK-based wealth management and financial advice firm, offering tailored guidance across investments, pensions, tax planning, and related financial services. Our work is built around helping clients make confident financial decisions with support that is personal, practical, and trusted.

As Events Lead, you will play an important role within the marketing team, helping to deliver events that support client engagement and strengthen the firm’s presence. This role is well suited to someone thrives on owning event management and the day itself. Being able to think quickly on your feet and create a fantastic experience is key. This role will include events out of office hours including weekends.

Responsibilities:

Event Execution & Delivery:

• Attend and actively contribute to internal planning and operational meetings to ensure seamless event delivery
• Execute all EIGHT events to a consistently high standard, following agreed event strategies and plans.
• Manage all event logistics including venues, suppliers, equipment, timings, and on-the-day coordination.

Guest Experience & Registration Management:

• Ensure guests receive clear, timely, and professional communications before and after events, including: a) Event logistics b) Joining instructions c) Follow-up communications
• Manage guest registration, attendance tracking, and confirmations across all events.
• Ensure guests feel welcomed, informed, and well looked after at all times.

Event Communications (Pre & Post):

• Inform New Enquiries Manager of upcoming events.
• Coordinate and send event-related email communications in line with agreed timelines and messaging.
• Support post-event follow-up communications as directed, ensuring a professional close to each event.
• Collaborate and handover all lead and prospect event attendees to New Enquiries Manager. Providing full details and feedback they will need to begin pipeline management.

Social Content Capture & Scheduling (Events):

• Capture high-quality social media content at events, including photos and short-form video.
• Schedule approved event-related content across social channels in line with brand guidelines.
• Ensure all content reflects the EIGHT brand and the tone of the event as approved by Brand & Marketing Specialist.

Requirements below

• Must be comfortable driving or independently reaching event locations as required
• Must be confident attending and contributing to planning and operational meetings
• Must be comfortable leading on-site delivery and acting as the primary point of contact during events.
• Experience coordinating with colleagues, venue teams, and external suppliers
• Eligible to work in the UK

• Hybrid working: 3 days in the office, 2 days wherever you work best
• Performance bonus+Company-wide bonus(when Eight hits targets)
• 28 days' holiday+bank holidays+your birthday off
• Private medical insurance&life assurance(4x salary)
• Wellbeing support: EAP, mental health helpline, cycle-to-work scheme
• Free mortgage and pension advicefrom our in-house experts
• Volunteering time: 8 paid hours annually via The Eight Foundation
• Regular socials & epic events