Event Manager - FTC London, England
Job description
Event Manager - FTC
London
As a Barclays Event Manager - 12 months fixed term contract, you will work across all business areas delivering a diverse portfolio of events, from small high-end dinners and bespoke VVIP offerings to large internal engagement events and large-scale client activations. You will work with all planners work on end-to-end project management, on solo projects and in project teams. This is a key role to develop and execute a diverse range of events, ensuring activity is aligned with business objectives, policies & procedures and our marketing/ communications strategies.
Barclays is one of the world's largest and most respected financial institutions, with 329 years of success, quality, and innovation behind us. We offer careers that provide endless opportunity – helping millions of individuals and businesses thrive and creating financial and digital solutions that the world now takes for granted.
We are currently in the early stages of implementing a hybrid working environment, which means that many colleagues spend part of their working hours at home and part in the office, depending on the nature of the role they are in. We’re flexible on how this works and it may continue to change and evolve. Depending on your team, typically this means that colleagues spend a minimum of between 20% to 60% of their time in the office, which could be over a week, a month or a quarter. However, some colleagues may choose to spend more time in the office over a typical period than their role type requires. We also have a flexible working process where, subject to business needs, all colleagues globally are able to request work patterns to reflect their personal circumstances. Please discuss the detail of the working pattern options for the role with the hiring manager.
What will you be doing?
- Delivering of events of all sizes, from simple activations to large flagship projects - including colleague engagement, large client activations and high-end experiences
- Managing large budgets, timelines, project plans, external suppliers internal non-ERH pro-ject teams, venue and suppliers, managing negotiation skills
- Working with internal clients and stakeholders to translate business objectives into activa-tions
- Adhering to all team processes, policies and controls, using internal systems effectively, and following our health and safety risk assessment procedures for all events
- You will be responsible for delegating management to include invitation production, joining instructions and on-site management
- Managing of speaker and host management including agenda design, speaker recommen-dations, collation of presentations, speaker briefings and management of any require-ments
- Preparing event collateral including detailed on-site schedules, post-event evaluations/ surveys as required and post-event debrief meetings
- Acting as an ambassador for the function and engage with colleagues across Corporate Relations and the firm
What we’re looking for:
- Currently working in an end-to-end event management role with experience of managing event project teams
- Significant professional experience running end to end events, including budget, stake-holder and logistics management, including producing Virtual events on TalkPoint
- Aptitude and ability to navigate the following technology systems: OneEvent, iPlanner, SAP, Aventri, iConference, Concur and BTS
- Excellent Microsoft Office skills (Ppt, Word, Excel)
- Proven professional experience of managing large scale events and event project teams of planners
- Knowledge of London and Europe venue and industry
- Regional Languages an advantage
Where will you be working?
In the heart of Canary Wharf, our headquarters at Churchill Place boasts onsite amenities such as: a gym, staff restaurant and deli bar, and is easily accessible by tube and bus links. With a population of around 5000 staff the atmosphere is second to none with a real buzz being created around the offices within.
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