Events Manager in London

Kennedys is looking for an Events Manager to join our Business Development team based in London. The role is responsible for the planning, management and operational delivery of UK event opportunities. This will require close liaison with partners and management, ensuring a smooth running of the process from start to finish and then working closely with the wider BD team to assess the success of each event and how the firm can build on this in the future.

This role will manage the UK events team, ensuring events are correctly resourced and run to the highest standard, within the event best practice guidelines. It will also include collaboration with the global event managers to ensure the delivery of global best practice.

Key responsibilities

• Develop and oversee the UK events strategy, policies, best practice and processes.
• Use creativity and experience to create and deliver a distinctive events and sponsorship programme which is aligned to the firm's strategy at a global and local level.
• Work with the event managers around the world, regional heads of BD&M, the practice BD leads, the CAM and campaigns teams to develop and deliver a high impact annual calendar of events as part of the wider global and BD&M strategy.
• Work closely with key partner stakeholders to provide advice and guidance in relation to events and sponsorships, challenging where necessary to ensure we are focused on ROI for all events and sponsorships the firm executes.
• Lead the UK events team to ensure high quality events are delivered for the firm.

Required experience

• Strong experience of working in a global events and sponsorship team within a professional services environment.
• Excellent organisation skills, with a proven ability to take initiative and responsibility for completion of work or projects.
• Highly organised and able to prioritise workloads, manage multiple projects and negotiate deadlines.
• Experience of managing projects and people cross-site (including international) and across virtual teams.
• Experience working with CRM Systems (InterAction, Intapp), email marketing platforms (Vuture, Hubspot), and Event management systems (Eventogy) is desirable.
• Experience of bringing new ideas and thinking, from concept to delivery, which helps to build our brand reputation in the market and provides opportunities for the lawyers and partners to build relationships and win work.
• Business benefit, service delivery and results focused.
• Exceptional attention to detail and tenacious attitude towards ensuring data accuracy.
• Highly developed written and verbal communication skills.
• Proven people management experience.
• Excellent IT skills including the use of Excel spreadsheets, Word and PowerPoint.

Please let us know if you require any additional support or adjustments to be made in order to submit your application to Kennedys.

Kennedys is a global law firm with expertise in dispute resolution and advisory services. With over 2,750 people worldwide across 47 offices in the UK, Europe, Middle East, Asia Pacific and America we have some of the most respected legal minds in their field. Our lawyers handle both contentious and non-contentious matters, and provide a range of specialist legal services, for many industry sectors but we have particular expertise in litigation and dispute resolution, especially in defending insurance and liability claims.

We’re a fresh-thinking firm, and we’re not afraid to bring challenging new perspectives to the table way beyond the traditional realm of legal services. We empower our clients with a diverse range of ideas, tools and technology to make their lives easier, as well as delivering exceptional results, every time.

What do we have to offer?

We welcome high-performing lawyers, business services professionals, secretaries, graduates and apprentices to join our rapidly expanding global firm. Whatever your role at Kennedys, you’ll be involved in exciting and stimulating work, where your input will make a difference.

Our culture and values form a big part of who we are and we take them seriously. We make a difference by being approachable, straightforward, supportive and distinctive. Our values are at the core of who we are and what makes us a great firm to work with and for.

The Firm recognises the value of investing in our people’s development and believes our culture and values contribute to the quality of our work and of our client relationships. With a culture of on-the-job and experiential learning, peer to peer learning, mentoring, resources and tools that enable you to drive your career, we can support your development in your current and future roles. A variety of other opportunities are available including secondments to clients and our global offices.

We strive to celebrate and empower our people and ensure everyone can bring their authentic selves to work. We’ve created a culture based on client service, professional excellence, hard work and trust, where diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) is a key priority. We recognise that many of our people want to work for an employer that is aligned to their values, which is why we are building an inclusive culture, decarbonising our operations and supporting our people to thrive at work. Our people are the key to driving this change and helping us to make a difference to our clients, our people and the communities in which we live and work.

Kennedys is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to ensuring our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. We expect all employees to be aware of and comply with all relevant policies and procedures within their jurisdiction, including those relating to Information Security, Data Protection and Quality Management, refer any breach promptly to Risk & Compliance and to complete all mandatory training when requested.