Events Manager (Awards)

Overview

Contract: 9-month Fixed-Term Contract with the potential to extend (maternity cover)

Start: August 2025

Salary : £37,500 (Depending on Experience)

Haymarket is a successful international specialist media company with over 60 market-leading brands. The Awards & Forums team is responsible for delivering over 50 annual B2B events ranging from awards ceremonies, forums and networking events.

We are seeking a dynamic and results-driven Events Manager to personally deliver 5 -6 varying in size, complexity, calendar positioning and budget level. The ability to multi-task and run events concurrently is therefore essential for this role.

Responsibilities

• Project Oversight: effectively manage project timelines and marketing plan, act as the project lead in decision making across portfolio
• Budget Management: manage the P&L across their portfolio, striving to meet financial targets
• Achieving Revenue Targets: oversee call for entries and ticket sales ensuring both financial and volume targets are met
• Venue/Supplier Negotiation: confidently negotiate with suppliers and to confirm costs on areas of budget
• Event Attendance: attend your events to ensure they are delivered to the standard expected at Haymarket
• Stakeholder Management: maintain relationships with key stakeholders, both internal and external, venue, suppliers, judges and speakers
• Sustainability: seek to drive continual improvement in live event sustainability performance and ensure line reports are adhering to SEMS processes.

Skills / Experience / Knowledge / Minimum Criteria

Essential:

• 3+ years experience working on or part of a large-scale awards and/or commercial B2B events team
• Understanding of budget management and P&L oversight, with a keen awareness of the financial impact on events
• Knowledge of events marketing strategies and best practice
• Solid understanding of the events industry, with established relationships with key suppliers
• Hands-on experience in venue management and a understanding of health and safety procedures
• Demonstrated ability to drive revenue growth to deliver successful events
• Strong written and spoken English, with a good eye for detail in reviewing and editing written documents

Desirable:

• A degree in Hospitality/Event Management or other relevant discipline
• Good understanding of Evessio (awards management software) or similar

• Sound negotiating and influencing skills

We are a Disability Confident employer and offer guaranteed interviews to all disabled applicants who meet the above minimum criteria.

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Why work with us?

Haymarket Media Group values its people and strives to shape a better future with remarkable content. From paid content and subscription services; to integrated advertising and content marketing packages. We deliver market-leading branded experiences that inspire great decisions. From data and digital information solutions to live events, awards and professional education services.

Our benefits include:

• 25 days holiday per year excluding bank holidays (increasing 1 day per year of service up to 30 days)
• Work from anywhere in the world for up to 3 weeks of the year with our 'Work from Anywhere' days
• Flexible working hours (core hours from 10-3) allowing you the flexibility to adapt your work schedule to your personal commitments
• Generous contributory pension scheme
• Health Cash Plans: With our health cash plans, you can access a range of healthcare benefits, including coverage for medical expenses, dental care, optical services, and more

More about working for Haymarket

Putting social and environmental responsibility at the forefront of our business we have aligned our current sustainability goals with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. As we serve our audiences, clients and communities, we are committed to driving the meaningful change necessary to build a better world. The principles of diversity, inclusion, respect, responsibility and sustainability are at the heart of our business.

We want to support our people to balance their personal and professional lives and we believe our range of benefits encourages this. Nothing beats face-time with our colleagues to promote creativity and collaboration, we've therefore adopted a blended working model where full time employees can expect to spend 3 days of their week in the office and the other 2 working at a location of their choice.

Haymarket is proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to ensuring that all candidates are given the same opportunity to succeed regardless of their sex, sexual orientation, marital status, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion, age or disability .

Come and join us and see for yourself how Haymarket is a rewarding and exciting place to work.