Events Manager in Leeds

We're looking for a commercially-minded Events Manager to join our growing Marketing team and co-lead the delivery of an ambitious, firm-wide events programme.

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced B2B events professional to shape and deliver a diverse portfolio of in-person, virtual and hybrid events that support business development, strengthen client relationships and raise the firm's profile. Working across multiple sectors, services and audiences, no two days will be the same.

Working with colleagues across the business, you'll become a trusted adviser to partners, sector leaders and marketing and business development teams, helping to develop events that are strategically aligned, commercially focused and deliver measurable impact. Alongside hands-on delivery, you'll play a key role in evolving our events programme, embedding best practice, improving processes and using insight to maximise engagement and return on investment.

The successful candidate can be based in any of our UK office locations, and will sit alongside the in-place Events Manager, working in partnership with them, and will have dotted line management of the Events Assistant.

If you're looking for a role that offers genuine variety, exposure to senior stakeholders and the opportunity to influence how events drive business success, we'd love to hear from you.

What will I be doing?

• Partnering with stakeholders across the firm to develop and deliver strategic event programmes that align with firm priorities. You'll provide expert advice on event objectives, format, audience, investment and delivery approach.
• Leading on end-to-end planning, delivery and evaluation of a diverse portfolio of in-person, virtual and hybrid events, ensuring an exceptional delegate experience through effective management of logistics, suppliers, budgets, venues, content and timelines.
• Building trusted relationships with partners and colleagues, providing clear governance, regular communication and proactive project management to ensure successful event delivery.
• Working closely with the Business Development team to integrate events into wider client development activity, maintaining strong CRM discipline, audience targeting, reporting and structured post-event follow-up.
• Measuring event performance through data, stakeholder feedback and commercial outcomes, using insights to continuously improve the firm's events programme, processes, service standards and return on investment.
• Ensuring all events are delivered in line with firm policies and governance requirements, managing budgets effectively and overseeing supplier and venue relationships to achieve value for money.
• Collaborating closely with the wider Marketing, Events and Business Development teams, supporting colleagues, sharing best practice and contributing to a high-performing, commercially focused function.
• Lead and influence colleagues through matrix project working and collaborative partnerships across a flat Events team management structure to support the successful delivery of a busy events calendar.

You'll have

• Significant experience in delivering end-to-end events within a professional services or B2B environment, from targeted client activity to large-scale or flagship events.
• Strong project management and organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a busy environment, maintain exceptional attention to detail, and deliver high-quality outcomes.
• Proven ability to build trusted relationships and communicate effectively with stakeholders at all levels, including senior leaders, influencing and managing expectations throughout event delivery.
• Commercial awareness, with experience using data, CRM systems and event insights to support business development, measure success, and continuously improve event performance.
• Experience leading or line managing colleagues, fostering a collaborative, high-performing team culture.
• A proactive approach; you'll be resilient and adaptable, taking ownership of work, embracing continuous improvement and thriving in a fast-paced, stakeholder-led environment.
• A willingness to travel between the firm's offices, work occasional early mornings or evenings to support events when required, spend nights away to deliver events in other office locations and ideally hold a full UK driving licence.

About us

We're proud to be an independent, full-service law firm providing exceptional legal expertise to businesses, the built environment, healthcare, the public and third sectors, and private individuals. With several office locations around the UK we're one of the UK's Top 100 law firms. When you join us you’ll be part of a team of over 500 passionate and talented individuals who take pride in offering an exciting and supportive environment allowing you to thrive.

We're passionate about promoting wellbeing and equality, diversity and inclusion, with dedicated committees to support ongoing efforts. We recognise that a healthy and thriving Firm filled with individuality and differences strengthens our teams, our clients and our communities.

What we can offer you

We’re committed to being a firm focused on support, development, wellbeing and inclusion and we’re always striving to improve. Our commitment to this has been recognised by our achievement of our Gold Investors in People award and by our Hive HR Employee Voice certification.

We reward our people with a whole range of benefits, some core and some flexible, designed to shape a reward package that’s right for you – now and in the future. Our core benefits include:

• An enhanced pension scheme with employer matched contributions of up to 6%.
• 25 days annual leave + bank holidays (increasing to 28 days with length of service). There is also the option to purchase up to 5 additional days.
• Life assurance cover of 4 times basic salary, with the option to purchase additional cover.
• A range of health and wellbeing benefits.
• Hybrid working with a minimum requirement of 2 days per week working from one of our offices.
• We also have a flexible benefits programme where you can purchase a wide range of additional benefits.

If you would like to request further information or to discuss the role, please contact people@wardhadaway.com quoting vacancy reference NTX1223002.

If you require any adjustments to be made to our recruitment process, please request a call back via the above email address.

Agencies - please note that we are not currently instructing agents to support with this role. Please do not send speculative CVs.