Mark Allen Group
Senior Events Manager
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Senior Events Manager (Operations) - Estates Gazette & Portfolio Adviser
Hybrid: (Herne Hill), 3 days in the office
Salary: Up to £55,000, depending on experience and company benefits.
Contract: Permanent, full-time
As our Senior Events Manager (Operations), you'll play a key role in delivering a varied portfolio of high-quality events across two respected MA Financial Media brands, Estates Gazette and Portfolio Adviser. From conferences and awards to multi-day summits, webinars, podcasts, VIP dinners, and activity around major industry events, you'll ensure every event is delivered professionally, efficiently, and to an exceptional standard.
This is a role for someone who enjoys taking ownership, thrives on organisation, and loves seeing a complex project come together. You'll be trusted to lead operational delivery, contribute ideas, and continuously improve how we work, while developing your career within a collaborative specialist media business.
About The Brands
Estates Gazette is the UK's original and most trusted source of commercial real estate news, insight, and analysis. Since 1858, it has informed, connected, and influenced the property industry through authoritative journalism, expert commentary, legal insight, and market-leading events.
Portfolio Adviser is a leading investment news, analysis, and events brand for fund selectors, wealth managers, private bankers, and financial advisers across the UK and Channel Islands. Through its website, magazine, newsletters, and events, it connects senior investment professionals with trusted insight, networking, and business opportunities.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Lead the operational planning and delivery of conferences, awards, summits, roundtables, webinars, podcasts, VIP dinners, and major industry events across Estates Gazette and Portfolio Adviser.
- Manage project plans, timelines, milestones, and budgets, ensuring events stay on track from initial planning through to post-event review.
- Work closely with the Publisher, Senior Conference Producer, Sales, Marketing, Editorial teams, and external suppliers to deliver commercially successful events.
- Oversee venues, suppliers, contracts, AV, catering, logistics, health and safety, guest management, and on-site delivery, ensuring every event runs smoothly.
- Keep senior stakeholders informed, proactively identifying risks, providing clear updates, and escalating decisions when needed.
- Work with Sales and Marketing to deliver sponsor commitments, delegate communications, and event information to a consistently high standard.
- Line manage and support the Event Manager, providing day-to-day guidance, coaching, and helping to deliver a successful events portfolio.
- Use event debriefs, reporting, and feedback to improve processes, strengthen delivery standards, and drive continuous improvement.
- Stay calm under pressure, solve problems proactively, and take pride in delivering polished, professional event experiences.
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What We're Looking For
- Strong experience delivering B2B events, ideally conferences, awards, summits, roundtables, dinners, webinars, or similar professional events.
- Excellent organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple projects, priorities, and deadlines simultaneously.
- Proven experience managing budgets, forecasting, supplier costs, and financial reporting.
- A calm, practical, and solutions-focused approach when priorities change.
- Excellent communication skills and the confidence to work with senior stakeholders, suppliers, venues, and internal teams.
- Strong supplier and venue management experience, including contract negotiation and service delivery.
- A hands-on, proactive approach and genuine pride in delivering outstanding events.
- Experience managing or mentoring others, with the ability to provide clear direction and support.
- The ability to work across multiple brands while maintaining consistently high standards.
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If you do not meet every requirement but bring transferable skills, sound judgement, and fresh thinking, we encourage you to apply.
Why join Mark Allen Group?
Mark Allen is a specialist media business with more than 40 years of experience building trusted brands for professional audiences. You will join a business that combines respected legacy brands with the need to keep evolving, giving you the chance to contribute ideas, improve how we work, and see the impact of what you do.
We Offer
- Hybrid working.
- Real ownership in your role.
- Development through hands-on learning, mentoring, and internal progression.
- Exposure to specialist markets and loyal professional audiences.
- A culture shaped by our values: Passionate, Creative, Nurturing, and Fair.
How To Apply
Apply through our careers site with your CV, including a cover letter sharing what attracted you to the role and what you would bring to it.
A video introduction is completely optional and will not disadvantage your application.
Right to work: Applicants must have the right to live and work in (country). We are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role.
Whether you’re just starting or looking for the next step in your career, Mark Allen will provide you an opportunity to excel.
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