Events & Experience Executive in Alderley Edge

Location: Alderley Edge, Cheshire

Contract: Permanent

Salary: £26-29,000 per annum

Hours Per Week: Full-time. 40 hours per week

Working Patterns: Monday – Friday working 4 days in the office and 1 day from home if desired. The role may require flexibility in working hours, including occasional weekends and be onsite during peak operational periods.

Vita Student & House of Social: Our next-level apartment design offers a variety of studios to suit our students lives with the privacy of living alone or the laughter of living together. We offer style, luxury & comfort to our residents, surrounded by premium amenities and a vibrant city life.

About the Role

• Collaborate with the Events & Partnerships Manager, Operations team and Creative team to deliver and develop our market-leading events and experience programme, including arranging, organising, scheduling and briefing out the programme of activities, promoting the events alongside the residence team, attending events at least once per month and ensuring that the best content is captured from the programme to use as part of the wider marketing strategy.
• Liaise & support with partnership activity across a range of partners within beauty, food & beverage, fashion, fitness, travel and more.
• Identify opportunities to maximise the value of our partnerships through content and reach via other marketing channels.
• Work with marketing colleagues to gather and create content to demonstrate the value of the events programme to customers across our marketing channels.
• Produce regular promotional assets to drive the programme including in-building events, board copy and digital TV screens.
• Maintain our website event listings with event details, copy and imagery.
• Create assets to promote events through digital and physical touchpoints across printed promotions, digital screens, email and social media.
• Deliver supporting events documents including briefings, risk assessments and allergens.
• Work alongside colleagues to track and audit the events programme performance.
• Assist with the delivery of the Social Media Share2Win Competition prize programme – logistics, packing and courier booking.
• Finance and administration – Raise purchase orders, updating budget tracking documents and processing invoices with event suppliers.
• Assisting marketing colleagues with other ad hoc tasks such as writing marketing content and contributing to social media platforms.
• Analysis and reporting on marketing effectiveness.
• Visibility and communication internally on project progress.
• Ability to maintain good relationships with key stakeholders within and outside of the business.

Who We’re Looking For

The ideal candidate will have a minimum of 2 years’ experience working in a marketing environment and demonstrate a diligent and enthusiastic approach to their work, with an understanding of consumer needs and trends.

Professional Experience / Attributes

• Creative and proactive individual with a desire to play an active role in a growing team within a dynamic and fast-paced working environment.
• Possess excellent planning and organisational skills.
• Attention to detail and an eye for the “latest thing”.
• Customer-focused background, with a confident and articulate communication style.
• Proficient in IT and online web-based tools, with intermediate skills in Microsoft 365, particularly Outlook and Excel.
• Strong prioritisation and organisational skills, and a responsible approach to handling confidential information.

Personal Characteristics

• Have a high standard of English (written and oral).
• Be flexible and adaptable when plans or policies change, often at short notice.
• A strong sense of ownership, emotional intelligence, and a determination to turn challenges into results.
• Have strong risk-awareness and intuition.
• Enthusiasm, a flexible approach to working, and a willingness to go the extra mile when required.
• An excellent listener and all-round brilliant communicator.
• Passionate about connecting with and understanding current or prospective customers.
• Resilient, organised, with a can-do attitude.

Why work for us

• Holidays – 22 days paid holiday, rising each year up to 25 days.
• Flexible Working Hours – Flexible start/finish times between the hours of 08:30 - 18:00.
• Bank Holidays – 8 paid holidays (England & Wales Bank Holidays).
• Free on-site Parking - Free parking on-site.
• Free on-Site Restaurant – Discretionary free breakfast & lunch served 5 days a week.
• Free on-site Padel Court - Enjoy the fun of padel; providing a full-body workout.
• Free Stockport County Football Club Tickets – Free football tickets for employees.
• Perkbox – Access to a Perkbox account for lifestyle perks.
• Royal London Pension – Vita Group contribute a financial value of 3% of salary to your pension pot.
• Parties & Events – We host events each year to celebrate success together.
• Career Development – Thorough induction and professional progression.
• 24/7 Employee Assistance – Access to a confidential service for personal or work-related issues.

Important

Unfortunately, we are unable to offer Right to Work Sponsorship. All offers of employment are subject to satisfactory pre-employment checks which will include Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) checks.