Senior Event Project Manager

Live Recruitment; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Live Recruitment is hiring a Senior Event Project Manager in London. You will own multiple complex events from brief through on-site delivery, coordinating internal teams and freelancers, while developing key client relationships with blue-chip accounts.

Engage suppliers, lead pitches and tender responses, and drive cost efficiencies across the project portfolio within a hybrid work pattern offering 3 days in office.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering complex, multi-workstream events end-to-end.
• Strong budget responsibility and supplier management.
• Background in agency, experiential or corporate events.
• Experience leading pitches or tender responses.

Responsibilities

• Own and deliver multiple complex events from brief to onsite delivery.
• Lead internal teams and freelancers across all delivery elements.
• Develop and manage long-standing client relationships with key accounts.
• Drive preplanning, onsite execution and post-event review.
• Identify cost efficiencies across projects and manage budgets.
• Line manage designated team members as required.

Skills

Project leadership

Budget management

Client relationship

Vendor management

Pitches & tender responses

Line management

Job description

Hybrid working: 3 days in office

Household-name global brands, a full-service agency where events sit alongside content, film and campaigns, and a Senior Event Project Manager role with full account ownership from pitch through delivery. Blue-chip clients across financial services, technology and consumer sectors, real budget authority, and a hybrid working pattern.

• Blue-chip client portfolio across multiple sectors
• Full strategic account ownership from pitch through delivery
• Full-service creative agency: events, content, campaigns, film and more
• Hybrid working: 3 days in office, 2 from home
• Line management responsibility with room to build your team

The Company

This is a full-service London creative agency delivering meaningful experiences across events, content production, creative campaigns, film and podcasts. The breadth of output under one roof means genuine collaboration with specialists across disciplines, and a Senior Event Project Manager here works across a client base that spans household-name global brands in financial services, technology and consumer sectors.

The Role

As Senior Event Project Manager, you will take ownership of multiple complex projects simultaneously, leading internal teams and freelancers from brief through to onsite delivery, while holding and developing key client relationships with some of the agency's most important accounts.

• Own and develop client relationships, prioritising a key strategic account
• Lead project teams, including freelancers, across all delivery elements
• Build and manage project budgets, ensuring accuracy and reconciliation
• Drive preplanning and onsite execution across all allocated projects
• Engage and manage suppliers including venues, production and talent
• Lead pitches and tender responses for new and retained business
• Identify cost and process efficiencies across the project portfolio
• Perform line management responsibilities for designated direct reports

The Candidate

The right Senior Event Project Manager will have delivered complex, multi-workstream events or experiential projects from end to end and owned client relationships, not just serviced them. You will be comfortable holding full budget responsibility and leading mixed teams of staff and freelancers across concurrent projects.

Experience leading pitches or tender responses and a strong grasp of supplier management across venues, production and talent are beneficial but not essential. Backgrounds in agency, experiential or corporate events are all relevant, and any track record of driving process improvement and cost efficiency will strengthen your application.

Proper account ownership, a portfolio of work that carries genuine weight on a CV, and a hybrid pattern that actually delivers flexibility. This is what a Senior Event Project Manager role at this level should look like.

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: SP18772