As an Events Manager at Searcys, you will coordinate and manage events at 116 Pall Mall, ensuring seamless delivery from setup to execution. You will lead the front-of-house operation, brief team members, and work closely with kitchen, sales, and client teams to achieve profitability and client satisfaction. The role involves planning, budgeting, and marketing to drive event revenues.

Responsibilities

To ensure events are set up as required by the event sheets.
Ensure events are delivered on time as required by the event sheets.
Attend and have active input to daily and weekly event operations meetings.
To liaise with the kitchen, event sales, operations and client teams to deliver successful events.
Conducts short- and long-term planning and management for events and sales.
Develops and recommend the budget, marketing plans, and objectives and manages within those approved plans.
Maintains or exceeds budgeted sales and profits in all event areas.
Recommends, develops, and implements effective marketing plans for generating event revenues.
Evaluates each piece of event business to ensure business can be properly serviced.
Assembles creative and innovative event attractions based on internal capabilities or outsources to qualified vendors.
Leads event team to build long-term, value-based customer relationships that enable achievement of sales objectives.

Requirements

Minimum 2 years experience in event management
Thorough understanding of the event and meeting management process – conception to completion
Ability to prioritize multiple projects in a fast-paced, multi-faceted, creative environment and able to work well under pressure
Meticulous organizational abilities; high attention to detail
Concise and effective verbal and written communication
Ability to adapt to challenges and opportunities with a solution-oriented perspective
Excellent strategic thinking and critical reasoning skills
Creative, positive energy, self-directed, amiable, and composed under pressure; helpful and humble

Benefits

50% discount across Searcys venues
Enrolment into the Searcys pension scheme
Up to 35 days annual leave (dependant on job role)
Access to everyday discounts and communication portal
Employee assistance programme
Enrolment into Searcys Champagne School
Meals provided on shift when working within one of our venue
Annual celebration event
Cycle to work scheme
Your birthday off to celebrate in style
A day off to volunteer / give back to the charity of your choice