Description
Join us as a Festivals & Events Manager and use your event management abilities to deliver outstanding experiences to our customers.
Your responsibilities
As a company we focus on objectives and results, with individuals driving the decisions on the best ways to achieve them. We have included this list of responsibilities to give you an idea of the starting point for this position; the exact responsibilities will develop under your leadership.
- End-to-end event management, leading the planning and delivery of Wildkind events & experiences to a high standard.
- Management of each event's budget, ensuring each event meets its profit targets without compromising on quality.
- Creation and management of all event paperwork and documentation, including production schedules, EMPs, contingency and emergency plans.
- Leading the design of event site plans (using AutoCAD or similar) with consideration of customer experience, operational efficiencies, lisencising and H&S regulations.
- Liaising with key stakeholders such as venue owners, local authorities, emergency services and local residents.
- Managing project timelines, ensuring key milestones are met.
- Line management of event programme manager.
- Procurement of all suppliers and staff for delivery of events, building an effective network of highly skilled and reliable contractors and suppliers.
- Onsite event management & delivery, overseeing suppliers, trader & bar managers, site manager & production team, ensuring events run punctually.
- Building detailed processes across the event management lifecycle, ranging from supplier procurement to onsite volunteer management.
- Researching, developing & testing potential new event formats.
- Depth of Knowledge: 5+ years experience festival / outdoor event management roles on events over 2500 capacity and 2+ years line management experience.
- Site Plan Design: Experience designing sites, focusing on both customer experience and operational efficiencies.
- Budgeting: Evidence of budget creation & management for events (minimum 500k).
- People Management: Evidence of recruiting managing a variety of people, from full time employees, to both creative & technical suppliers and freelancers.
- Issue Resolution: Ability to prioritise conflicting challenges onsite, deciding on and communicating resolutions to issues clearly.
- Communication: Ability to clearly communicate, from SAG meetings to venue owners and large onsite teams.
- Documentation: Experience creating EMPs, detailed production schedules & working with project management software to create event timelines.
- Highly skilled in Autocad or similar mapping software
- Expert knowledge of the Purple Guide and associated regulations and best practices for delivering large scale events.
Desirable additions
- Driving Licence
- Health & Safety Qualification (e.g. IOSH)
We are looking for team members who are interested in a long term career with Wildkind, and want to learn and grow with us. If you think you could achieve the goals set out in this role and would enjoy the work we do, we encourage you to apply regardless of your background. We have an extensive interview process which includes completing tasks and getting to know your potential colleagues, that will allow you to experience our culture first hand. We will request positive references from your past employers to support anything you tell us about your experience.
We only accept applications via the form on this page, please do not send applications by post or email as they will not be considered.