Event Executive

EVENT EXECUTIVE

Do you want to work for a forward thinking, creative and continuously expanding media organisation?

Do you want to work somewhere where your contribution across the business, no matter how small, will be recognised and celebrated?

Are you someone who loves a challenge and thrives in delivering market leading content to your audiences?

Let’s explore the fantastic career opportunity below at Mark Allen Group.

Mark Allen Groupconsists of seven divisions: MA Healthcare, MA Business, MA Agriculture, MA Education, MA Exhibitions, MA Music Leisure & Travel and MA Dentistry Media.

We are continuously looking to invite driven, ambitious, and enthusiastic candidates into our MAG family across our lucrative businesses. We are a trusted, family-owned media company specialising in offering professional content and services to global audiences. Content is key to everything that we do, be it across print, digital or events.

We’re not interested in fitting in to what a media company is supposed to look like. We are not wallflowers. Our ever-increasing business has rapidly grown from its humble beginnings and we’re only just getting started….

We can offer you:

• Ongoing training and development
• Stability - continued growth across our portfolios, even in 2020
• Opportunities - 13 new acquisitions added to our business so far in 2021
• Investing time in our people
• Flexible working (hybrid, home, and office)
• A platform where every opinion counts
• Inspirational, forward thinking senior leaders
• The chance to join our dedicated Equality, Diversity & Inclusion groups such as our Gender Equality Network and MA PRIDE.
• An opportunity to give back. The MA Foundation is a charitable foundation recently established by Mark Allen Group as a conduit for employees to coordinate their fundraising efforts. Currently supporting Young Minds and Stop the Traffik.

As well as:

• To start you will have 25 days holiday to enjoy which increases after continuous service
• Know anyone else who would love to join us? Great! You can earn a generous bonus by referring a colleague or friend once you are an employee
• The company will pay the cost of a standard eye test once every two years or sooner if recommended by an optician
• Life assurance eligible from day one
• Cycle scheme
• Season ticket loan
• Pension contribution
• Company sick pay
• Christmas closure
• #MAGSWAG - keep an eye out for the postman if you’re successful!
• Plus individual benefits

This is the type of person we are looking for:

• You are passionate about what you do
• Professional, but not corporate
• Team player, it’s a collaborative organisation and our people mean everything!
• Ambitious
• Confident in giving your input and sharing ideas
• You will be extremely organised, capable of handling conflicting priorities with ease and a strong communicator.
• Work well under pressure and have an absolute eye for detail and precision.
• Excellent customer service skills are essential.
• Experience of the events and/or exhibitions industry is an advantage, but not essential as all training will be provided.

The Opportunity:

For an aspiring Event Executive to join our events team. You will work across THREEof our offices. These are in Herne Hill, Dartford and Sutton so please make sure you are happy to go to work in one of these offices at least twice a week. The office location will probably change week on week depending on which events are coming up. Make sure you have checked you can get to all three offices before submitting your application please.

Responsibilities:

• Attend events as necessary to co-ordinate and ensure smooth running (UK based)
• Create delegate pack components prior to events.
• Maintain the task list for the events
• Create exhibitor manuals for each exhibition, liaising with the venues to ensure health & safety compliance
• Act as primary customer service contact for all sponsors, exhibitors, speakers and delegates.
• Understand each event brief and communicate event requirements to venues to obtain ‘value for money’ prices and availability
• Review and source venues based on specific briefs and budgets
• Manage post-event feedback forms and conduct a follow up analysis
• Manage the shared calendar and diary, scheduling meetings and monitoring the inbox
• Book accommodation for staff attending events and where applicable, group hotel bookings for events
• Build, develop and manage webinars and webcasts using WorkCast
• Create registration pages for events and awards using Eventsforce
• Manage and maintain budget spreadsheets and detailed, accurate records of exhibitor and delegate bookings
• Email marketing – assist in formatting HTML, run data counts, extract data and manage sending of emails using Adestra for all campaigns across the MAB portfolio
• Websites – update content as required to ensure that websites are always current and correct
• Assist in webinar rehearsals and live delivery as required
• Social media (particularly Twitter & LinkedIn) – assist in posting pre-approved content as required
• Support Events Assistant and delegate tasks as appropriate

Salary: up to £22,000 (DOE)

Office: Herne Hill SE24, Dartford DA2 and Sutton SM2

Flexible working (hybrid - home, and 2 days in the required office from 6th September)

We positively celebrateDiversity & Inclusion in the Mark Allen Group. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds, because it makes our company stronger. We are committed to achieving a working environment that provides equality of opportunity and freedom from discrimination. We aim to become the most inclusive business in Publishing- both for our people and our customers, reflecting and connecting with the diverse communities that we work with. We want people from all backgrounds to feel valued for their individuality and to thrive in our business and feel part of the family-run Mark Allen Group.