Freelance Events Manager

You'll take ownership of events from initial concept and planning right through to execution and post-event evaluation. Working closely with the internal marketing team and external partners, you'll be responsible for creating engaging, on-brand experiences while ensuring every element is meticulously planned and delivered. Responsibilities will include:

• Leading the planning and delivery of large-scale exhibitions, trade shows and smaller brand events.
• Taking events from initial concept through to on-the-day delivery.
• Developing creative ideas and experiences that bring the brand to life and engage its target consumer.
• Managing event plans, timelines, budgets, logistics and all associated deliverables.
• Coordinating agencies, suppliers, venues and other external partners.
• Managing multiple internal and external stakeholders throughout the process.
• Ensuring events support wider brand, marketing and commercial objectives.
• Being hands-on with delivery while maintaining a strategic overview of the overall events programme.
• Measuring event performance and success.
• Capturing learnings and making recommendations to continually improve future events.
  
  This is a fantastic opportunity for a seasoned events professional who can become a genuine extension of the internal team - bringing together creative thinking, commercial awareness and excellent hands-on delivery., We're looking for someone with significant events experience who is confident stepping in and owning the events function.
You'll ideally have:
• Extensive experience delivering brand-led events, ideally within a consumer-facing environment.
• Strong experience of large-scale exhibitions and trade shows alongside smaller events and activations.
• Proven experience managing the full event lifecycle from concept through to delivery.
• Excellent project management and organisational skills with exceptional attention to detail.
• Experience managing agencies, suppliers and external partners.
• Confidence coordinating multiple stakeholders and workstreams simultaneously.
• Strong commercial awareness and an understanding of how events contribute to wider marketing and business objectives.
• A proactive, hands-on approach combined with the ability to think strategically.
• Experience evaluating event performance and using insights to shape future activity.