Event Operations Manager at Presidents Summit

Do you thrive in a fast-paced environment, where you gain a tremendous amount of responsibility? Do you want to be part of an exceptional entrepreneurial team with young, motivated and extremely driven people? And are you curious or passionate about creating events? If so, you might be our Event Operations Manager.

About us

Presidents Summit is Northern Europe’s leading business conference, connecting 3,000+ leaders, entrepreneurs, investors and policymakers from 50+ countries providing a global business community for today’s and tomorrow's leaders. For more than a decade, Presidents Summit has welcomed world-leading experts such as Bill Clinton, Steve Wozniak, Sir Richard Branson, Gary Vaynerchuk among 130+ others to provide our business community with the newest actionable insights and inspiration from the world's greatest speakers.

Presidents Summit is part of United Media (https://www.united-media.com/) which focuses on building large scale industry media and conferences products in sectors such as insurance, HR, private equity, retail, etc. 

What we offer you

As our Event Operations Manager you get the unique opportunity to be a key player in building the greatest conferences across our portfolio companies By providing you with the ownership of our conferences, we want to constantly push you out of your comfort zone. You’ll be working out of our HQ in London and to ensure a never ending growth curve, we provide you with:

• An opportunity for getting operational experience in a start-up and scale-ups where both your work and the results are highly tangible and matters to the businesses
• A chance to work closely together with our CEOs and CPOs on conference strategies 
• Unlimited growth potential in Our Group - we strongly believe in and have a track record of promoting internally

Your Responsibilities

Your responsibility will be to help our portfolio companies create the greatest conference experiences, which entails that you:

• Create a vision and lay out a strategy for creating extraordinary experiences while innovating on opportunities and ideas
• Make a detailed plan for how to execute the vision and strategy
• Identify and contact potential partners
• Promote events and close deals
• Manage conferences by ensuring everything runs smoothly on the days of our conferences enabling us to always surpass our former high attendee satisfaction

What we expect from you

You possess an unparalleled work ethic with a high sense of urgency. You have a relentless drive and desire to be the very best at what you do. You take ownership of everything you do, are proactive and follow through on commitments. Moreover, you’re humble and you share our passion for building and executing new businesses. Furthermore, we expect that you:

• Have +5 years of work experience with outstanding performance in the industry
• Work experience with outstanding performance within event planning or coordination, marketing, public relations or another relevant field
• Have a UK work permit
• Have an exceptional eye for aesthetics and details
• Are well-organised and able to structure and prioritise your work
• Like to build and nurture relations
• Possess great negotiation skills

Startdate

Flexible

Monday - Friday we work from our office (next to Victoria Station) and do not offer remote work.