Principal Event Specialist

AMS; City Of London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A global recruitment company in the City of London is seeking a Principal Event Specialist to oversee early careers events. This role involves planning, execution, and stakeholder management. Candidates must have experience in event management, excellent stakeholder communication skills, and a strong focus on data analysis. Competitive compensation and a culturally inclusive workplace are offered.

Benefits

Flexible working

Competitive reward and benefits package

Full training and support

Qualifications

• Experience managing events within a large, complex, and matrixed environment.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence multiple senior stakeholders.
• Strong data analysis and reporting capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Drive the planning and execution of recruitment events.
• Own end-to-end event execution including stakeholder management.
• Manage communication with key stakeholders.

Skills

Event management experience

Stakeholder management skills

Data analysis capabilities

Project management expertise

Budget management experience

Attention to detail

Job description

About Us

Role - Principal Event Specialist

Contract type - Fixed Term ( 12 months with a possibility of extension)

Working Hours - 37.5

Career Level - 3

Join our World of Talent.

Global, culturally diverse, inclusive, and innovative - welcome to AMS, where talent is our world. Over the last two decades, AMS has redefined the landscape of talent outsourcing and consulting. From pioneering the concept of RPO to continually revolutionising how organisations approach talent acquisition, AMS stands as a world leader in the industry.

Committed, engaged, and inspired, we feel a real sense of belonging, and all have one thing in common: a real passion for talent. Become part of this world and make a difference with us.

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The Role

The role of the Principal Event Specialist in Early Careers Recruitment Marketing is to deliver agreed recruitment services in line with agreed service levels and campaigns. This will involve taking responsibility for the conceptual design and execution of all early careers events leveraging student insight data and market best practise to guide our strategy.

A key component of this role is end-to-end ownership of the EMEA wide early careers events calendar and in collaboration with various counterparts, serve as the central point of contact for all events and recruitment marketing queries, they will also engage and influence stakeholders, mobilising event staffing in consultation with the early careers leads to support and represent at all events including panels, presentations, office visits, workshops, and careers fairs.

Key Accountabilities

What you'll be doing:

Event Planning & Operational Excellence

• Drive the planning and execution of early careers recruitment events (virtual and in person) and event marketing initiatives (career fairs, flag ship presentations, pop up installations, simulations, webinars) including collateral, ensuring brand consistency across all channels - key POC for approvals for Recruitment team
• Project Manager for the Virtual Event Series, own end to end event execution including: stakeholder management, creative design, content development, promotion, speaker selection and briefings, multimedia liaison, managing live event, post event reporting and keep warm.
• Create dedicated event comms including, event invites, pre event and post event comms which can be leveraged by the team. Prepare event memos and supporting materials (meeting memos, presentations, briefing documents, etc.). Ensure all the relevant approvals have been obtained
• Oversee the tracking and monitoring of event and sponsorship spend
• Central oversight of the events and staffing tracker and develop a post-event engagement plan, holding weekly meetings with the Recruiters to ensure full alignment on activations and event related deliverables.
• Attend events on and off campus and in virtual settings on behalf of client as required
• Work closely with the EMEA Head of Early Careers and Early Careers Recruitment Marketing Lead on the execution of pre-university events
• Analyse reports, event feedback and insights data to assess return on investment on events to drive data-led decisions across all early careers recruitment marketing initiatives - present accordingly to key stakeholders
• Manage all merchandise for events - selection of items + purchase, ensuring all branded items are in line with the Client's brand and approved by Firm Marketing

Client Focus

• Frequent communication to key stakeholders to ensure full visibility of our events program
• Build collaborative relationships with key stakeholder such as Recruitment, Firm Marketing and Global RM and manage issues, escalating as required
• Obtain feedback from the Managers and event attendees on how service can be improved
• Custodian of client EVP, ensuring the proposition conveyed is compelling and is followed through the campus event calendar
• Review and analyse campaign data to identify opportunities for improvement.

Team

• Understands AMS people are a key market differentiator and is genuinely committed to aligning team behaviour to the AMS charter
• Manage/ mentor / guide members of event team on best practice approaches, client culture and support them in achieving success in their roles
• Escalate any issues to their Manager in relation to issues with the supply of recruitment services

Skills & Experience

You'll need to demonstrate:

Must Haves

• Experience managing events within a large, complex, and matrixed environment
• Excellent stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence, collaborate, and manage multiple senior stakeholders
• Strong data analysis and reporting capabilities to track performance, outcomes, and effectiveness
• Project management expertise, including planning, execution, timelines, and cross-functional coordination
• Budget ownership and management experience, ensuring cost-effective delivery and financial governance
• Highly organised, detail-oriented, and demonstrates strong attention to detail in all aspects of work

Nice to Haves:

• Experience with campus events, university partnerships, or early careers/graduate recruitment
• Experience working within a Professional Services or Financial Services environment

Other

Why AMS?

At AMS, we recognise the value of different perspectives and experiences in prompting innovation, sparking creativity, and solving problems.

We come from every walk of life, and our culture is open and inclusive. Our people enjoy flexibility, autonomy, and being trusted to work their way. We offer you career opportunities in every direction you want to explore. It's our world but you can do it your way.

We offer:

• Full training and support
• High value and challenging work
• A vibrant, diverse, and collaborative culture
• Flexible working
• A competitive reward and benefits package*
• The opportunity to embark on a recruitment career with one of the world's leading recruitment companies

*Details may vary slightly depending on your location, local labour law, etc.

Our culture of inclusion and belonging.

We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, and all aspects of employment are based on merit, qualifications, and business needs. We do not discriminate based upon age, disability, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, or any other applicable legally protected characteristic.

If you require any accommodations or have any accessibility needs, please reach out via email [e-mail] or make a member of our Talent Acquisition team aware at any time.

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We take pride in being Disability Confident. This helps to ensure that you can be interviewed fairly if you have a disability, long- term health conditions, or are neurodiverse. You will be shortlisted based on minimum criteria for the role and will be offered support and/or adjustments for the recruitment process if you wish.