Event Producer - UK and Ireland, CWH

Soho House & Co is seeking a seasoned events producer to deliver a yearly programme of activations and activities across the UK and Ireland for Cities Without Houses (CWH), a membership for cities without a physical House. The role involves creative concepting, project management, execution, programming, finance, administration, strategy, and reporting, working alongside the CWH membership team to positively impact membership growth and deliver memorable experiences. The producer will be the primary point of contact for logistics, budgets, suppliers, and partners, ensuring events are best in class and reflect well on the Soho House brand.

Responsibilities

• Creative concepting - continuously on the lookout for new, different, exciting spaces for our events. Building an idea and creative concept including theme, aesthetic, performance etc to bring the experience to life. This should be done in collaboration with the wider UK and Ireland team but also leaning on best practice from our CWH teams around the world
• Project Management - The maintenance or improvement of systems to plan and track activations & activities to deadlines, ensuring budgets are always met and that all initiatives deliver against businesses objectives and deliver results
• Execution – The ability to actualise all areas of large and small projects concurrently. All events to be delivered under the lens of ‘only at Soho House’ which includes a keen eye for detail. Stakeholder management is crucial.
• Programming - Delivering a calendar of multi-tier activities and activations across the UK and Ireland. We should see consistent programming throughout the year so we always have something on.
• Finance – Managing day to day budgets and expenses, liaising with finance team to ensure all suppliers and partners are paid prior and post impact days. Event Producer will work closely with the Head of Membership in owning the P&L to manage event spend in relation to all other aspects of the P&L
• Administrative – Managing multiple supplier contracts, partnership contracts, run of shows (production schedules) and other associated clerical paperwork, ensuring timely delivery. Work with the other event producers to modify Airtable the platform used at Soho House so it works for and delivers efficiencies for CWH event production team
• Strategy – work with other event producers and head of memberships to build and create a single CWH event strategy that works at a global level but can be tailored by region. Set up and attend CWH global event production team meetings and share best practice across markets. Attend the Soho House events townhalls to ensure we are leveraging work being done at a House level within CWH
• Reporting – Tracking event performance by way of spending, attendance and new member acquisition, member retention and utilising this knowledge for future event planning.
• Only At Soho House - Ensuring Soho House style is evident at each event. Demonstrate a healthy obsession with member user experience, food, beverage, event styling and data capture.

Requirements

• 5+ years equivalent industry experience
• Experience in cultural event creative concepting, programming and event production
• Exceptionally Strong organisational skills a must
• Ability to multitask and execute under pressure and in demanding fast-paced environments
• Strong social skills for dealing with and developing client, suppliers, partners and staff relationships
• Collaborative and communicates well
• A good knowledge of site and event health and safety and the ability to write incident reports
• Experience in managing budgets, processing invoices and payments essential
• Energetic, flexible, collaborative, proactive; a team player who can positively and productively impact both strategic and tactical finance, and administrative initiatives.
• Experienced with LLMs, Outlook, Trello, Excel, Event-pro software or similar software e.g. GEM, Salesforce

Nice to have

• Hospitality, Music, Event promotion and Digital Marketing experience a bonus

Benefits

• Discounts at Soho House globally, as well as Soho Home and Cowshed
• Annual Every House Membership
• Enhanced Pension Scheme
• Private Health and Dental Care
• Cycle to Work Scheme/Season Ticket Loan
• In conjunction with Soho Impact, take 2 days paid a year to support a charity of your choice.
• Cookhouse & House Tonic: Our Cookhouse & House Tonic programmes offer unique food and drink trainings, events and opportunities to inspire and educate.
• Team Events: From fitness sessions to cinema screenings and art classes, each month we hold a series of fun events which you can sign up to.