Head of Live Events

Live Recruitment; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A dynamic event agency in Greater London seeks a Head of Live Events to oversee the planning and delivery of both UK and international projects. You will lead a high-performance team, ensuring operational excellence and achieving margin targets. The ideal candidate has experience in a similar role within a corporate agency, with strong technical understanding and leadership skills. This role offers competitive benefits, including flexible working and excellent career progression opportunities.

Benefits

Flexible working

Company bonus

Excellent career progression

Great company culture

Pension scheme

BUPA healthcare

Qualifications

• Experience as Head of Live Events in a corporate event agency.
• Ability to understand and challenge technical production solutions.
• Natural leadership skills with experience in team motivation.

Responsibilities

• Oversee planning, delivery, and production of events.
• Manage and lead a high-performance events team.
• Contribute to successful pitches and tender responses.
• Ensure accurate project scoping for budget costings.

Skills

Team management

Client relationship building

Technical production knowledge

Leadership

Commercial acumen

Job description

Hybrid working - 3 days in the office. Are you looking to join one of the most cutting-edge event agencies out there? Do you want to be to deliver international events for big named brands

• Flexible working
• Hybrid working
• Company bonus
• Excellent career progression
• Great company culture
• Pension scheme
• BUPA healthcare

The Company

This independent, creative event agency specialising in communicating through live events they have been established for over 20 years and work with some of the biggest, well known brands out there!

Having invested heavily in their team, services and brand this agency keeps going from strength to strength, having grown existing accounts and won substantial new clients through their creative approach to every area of their work.

This creative agency offers the chance to join a fast-growing team, a fantastic working environment, excellent career development, excellent earning opportunity and the chance to grow in the role and make it your own.

The Role

We are now looking for a Head of Live Events to join their growing events team. You will be responsible for overseeing the planning, delivery, and production of UK and international projects, whilst managing and leading a high-performance team. Key responsibilities for ensuring operational and customer excellence as well as achieving margin targets.

This role covers event and project delivery including supporting teams' delivery on-site for more complex live projects, and for new client wins, requiring UK and international travel as needed.

• Team management for direct reports
• Responsible for the overall performance management of project team members
• Recruitment and the onboarding of new starters
• Designing SLA's and KPI's
• Contribute to the delivery of successful pitches and tender responses
• Overseeing event delivery
• Ensure all projects are fully scoped to enable accurate budget costings
• Build strong and trusting relationships with client services
• Maintain and maximise margin generation
• Provide on-site support and oversee event management both in the UK and internationally

The Candidate

Candidates should ideally be working in a similar role as a Head of Live Events from a corporate event agency, with the ability to understand and challenge technical production solutions.

You should be commercially minded and able to set and execute based on logic and pace, as well as a natural, experienced leader, well versed in motivating and empowering the team, acting as a role model, coach and mentor, particularly when inevitable challenges arise!

Most importantly we are looking for an ambitious Head of Live Events with the ability and willingness to lead on smaller project tasks in support of the team and changing deadlines.

In return they offer flexible working, fantastic career progression, company-wide bonuses!

Live specialises in all disciplines (and at all levels) across events, experiential and exhibitions. If this position isn't quite what you're looking for please visit live-recruitment.co.uk to view all of the opportunities we are recruiting.

As a specialist events recruitment agency we help our clients build the most talented and diverse teams in the UK. We encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds, embracing diversity across all intersecting dimensions, including ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, well-being, abilities, and neurodiversity.

We are dedicated to ensuring a supportive and accessible recruitment process. If you require any adjustments or accommodations for any reason, please do not hesitate to let us know.

Vacancy Ref: SP15604