BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT
Vacancy: Senior Event Manager
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Senior Event Manager
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Salary: Up to £50,000 per annum
Location: London or Swindon with hybrid working
Contract Type: Full-time, permanent
Working within the Marketing team, the role collaborates closely with: Membership, Communications, Policy and Sales teams, as well as senior colleagues across the organisation, to ensure events are aligned to strategic priorities and deliver measurable impact.
The Senior Event Manager has responsibility for the end-to-end delivery of both BCS-owned events (including flagship events, awards and member activity) and external events (such as partner-led, sponsored or jointly delivered events), ensuring all are delivered to a consistently high professional standard.
Key Responsibilities
- Contribute to the development and ongoing refinement of the organisation’s events strategy, ensuring a coherent portfolio aligned to business and member objectives.
- Lead the planning and delivery of a diverse programme of BCS owned and external events, including flagship events including awards, member events, forums and webinars.
- Act as the senior event lead for assigned programmes, providing clear ownership, direction and delivery oversight.
- Work cross-functionally to align events with acquisition, engagement, reputation building and revenue goals.
- Manage event budgets, forecasts and reporting, ensuring financial discipline and strong return on investment.
- Build and manage relationships with venues, suppliers, sponsors and external partners.
- Ensure excellence in member and attendee experience across in person, hybrid and virtual formats.
- Oversee all operational aspects of events, including venue management, event related suppliers, production, accessibility, risk management and on the day delivery.
- Collaborate with marketing and communications colleagues to shape and deliver event messaging, and promotional plans.
- Provide clear briefs, timelines and guidance to internal stakeholders contributing to events.
- Create and shape sponsorship packages, collaborating with the Sales team to pitch and sell opportunities directly to clients and external partners.
- Ensure all events meet brand standards, governance requirements and health and safety obligations.
- Use data and feedback to evaluate performance and drive continuous improvement across the events portfolio.
- Develop best practice processes, templates and guidance to support consistent, high quality event delivery.
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