Strategic Event Manager

About the Role
London & Partners is a social enterprise that promotes London and attracts investment, businesses, and visitors to the city. We are seeking an experienced Strategic Event Manager to join our team. The successful candidate will oversee a portfolio of commercial innovation events and engagement activities within the Innovation Programmes team.

Key Responsibilities
The Strategic Event Manager will be responsible for project managing a cross-business team, using project management methodologies to ensure internal teams deliver their projects on time and have all the required information from our partners to be able to execute the event. This includes acquiring speakers for events through own research and suggestions from London & Partners colleagues and our network, developing strategies to identify key areas and build products that fulfill these strategic aims, and ensuring that L&P project management processes are followed and the CRM is updated, maintained, and accurately records all community engagement.

What You'll Bring
To succeed in this role, you will need demonstrable track record of success in planning and delivering in person business events, excellent communication skills with the ability to craft copy to suit a wide variety of audiences and tones of voice, combined with a sharp attention to detail. You will also need experience in cross-business working to achieve challenging goals, experience planning and leading community initiatives to identify and track relevant community KPIs, excellent time and project management skills, and experience working in a commercially driven environment.

About Us
We are a fast-paced, flexible, and inclusive social enterprise that values diversity and encourages applications from all sections of the community. We offer a hybrid working environment, 30 days' holiday in addition to UK public holidays, and excellent employer pension contribution and Medical Cash Plan. If you are passionate about promoting London and attracting investment, businesses, and visitors to the city, we encourage you to apply.