Senior Events & Strategic Partnership Executive - #1705916

Taylor Wessing

Taylor Wessing is a global law firm that serves the world's most innovative people and businesses. Deeply embedded within our sectors, we work closely together with our clients to crack complex problems, enabling ideas and aspirations to thrive. Together we challenge expectation and create extraordinary results. By shaping the conversation in our sectors, we enable our clients to unlock growth, protect innovation and accelerate ambition.

With 1200+ lawyers, 300+ partners, 28 offices and 17 jurisdictions we are looking to expand our Marketing team, with the addition of a Senior Events & Strategic Partnership Executive.

The opportunity for you

We are looking for an experienced events professional to join our busy Events and Strategic Partnerships team as soon as possible. This is an exciting and influential role to support our strategic drive to design and deliver bold, creative, and distinctive experiences for our clients and internal audiences - events and activities which challenge expectations and help Taylor Wessing to stand out in the market. The role will work alongside our sector and practice areas offering guidance on going to market with the right event, in the best format, at the most effective time.

Alongside day-to day management of a pipeline of events and activities, the Senior Events & Strategic Partnerships Executive will have the opportunity to work with our flagship sponsorships and key partnerships, including the annual Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize with the National Portrait Gallery.

Key responsibilities

• Create and deliver external and internal events and sponsorship-related activities, managing directly from implementation to completion, and supporting team members on others. Events include conferences, seminars, round tables, webinars, drinks receptions and hospitality events within the UK and internationally.
• Support and assist key firmwide large scale events, e.g. partner conferences and other international sector and practice group events.
• Ensure all events and sponsorship related collateral is consistent with the firm's brand guidelines and maintaining quality control of print process.
• Source and contract both UK and international venues.
• Ensure all event budgets are set and maintained correctly, working with Finance to ensure accurate reporting
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with key suppliers, including negotiation on costs.
• Measure the impact of our events and sponsorships and ensure timely reporting; analyse trends and patterns in event statistics to ensure the most effective strategies are followed.
• Manage the CRM system to assist in targeting and event invite/attendance analysis.
• Coordinate with Digital team to ensure that events are communicated appropriately using a variety of channels such as the website, intranet, and social media.
• Work closely with key stakeholders in the practice and business development teams to understand specific needs and advise on options for future events and sponsorships to help the firm meet its strategic objectives.
• Be a 'centre of excellence' and advocate for best practice events marketing.
• Implement event team processes when necessary.
• Adopt good project management techniques and best practice.
• Manage ad-hoc projects as advised by Events and Strategic Partnerships Manager.
• Guide and support the Events Executive and Business Development Assistants.
  
  

Knowledge, Skills And Experience

The individual will need to be self-motivated, proactive and tenacious. He/she will need to establish an effective working relationship with the Events team, Business Development team, Partners and other business functions. The individual will need:

• A proven track record of delivering in-person and virtual events of all sizes within a corporate environment, preferably within legal/professional services, both in the UK and internationally.
• Experience managing event and marketing systems including Vuture and ON24. Experience with Monday.com would be desirable.
• Experience managing delegate online registration or a CRM system.
• Developing and maintaining strong relationships with event suppliers in the UK and Europe including 3rd parties, venues, agencies and external vendors.
• Managing end-to-end event budgets including processing and reconciling invoices and accurate and timely post-event budget reconciliation.
• Experience managing all related event collateral and responsibilities (including agendas, badges, invitations, onsite or virtual schedules, event plans, accommodation and travel).
• Proven experience providing details post event evaluation, budget analysis with a focus on ROI.
• Strong team player.
  
  

Benefits

Here are a select few benefits that Taylor Wessing offer;

• Hybrid working (Offering the opportunity to work remotely, while maintaining a social boundary by working from our award-winning offices for 3 days a week)
• Holiday (Our basic annual holiday entitlement starts at 25 days, with a further discretionary day of paid leave in December. You may also purchase up to five extra days each year (pro rata).
• Enhanced Maternity and Paternity leave (After one-year service, you are entitled to up to 26 weeks leave full pay if you or your partner give birth or adopt a child).
  
  

Along with these there are many more benefits we offer, with the addition of a comprehensive flexible benefits package available.

Our culture

Nurturing a diverse, inclusive culture allows all of our talent to flourish, sparks creativity and powers innovation. We continue to build a team that exemplifies inclusivity and reflects the firm's core values: creative, excellence, integrity, responsible, respect and team. We value and celebrate the differences in who we are, what we have experienced and how we think, so all candidates will be treated fairly regardless of age, caring responsibilities, disability, gender identity, marital status, neurodiversity, pregnancy, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation and socio-economic background.

The way we work

At Taylor Wessing, we never settle for average. We're creative thinkers, problem solvers and continuous learners who excel at what we do and believe our best work is still ahead of us. We are a firm that's large enough for you to achieve your ambitions, but connected enough to be a true community.

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