Event Operations Associate at SetSales

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 Associate.

About us: SetSales is Northern Europe’s leading sales community and aims to connect and develop commercially-minded executives, decision makers in sales, and aspiring entrepreneurs. We are connecting more than 4,000 professionals from more than 15 countries every year. SetSales is part of United Media which focuses on building large scale industry media and conferences products in sectors such as insurance, HR, private equity, retail, etc. As of today, we have organically launched 8 media companies and acquired one.

What we offer you: As our Event Operations Associate, 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 matter 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 acquired a bachelor’s or master’s degree with outstanding results.
• Are willing to work in a role 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.

Start date: Flexible. The role is onsite, Monday to Friday, based in our offices at Buckingham Gate. It is essential we work at a fast pace and collaborate in person to create market-leading, unmatched events throughout the calendar year. It will be great to have you as part of our team.