Senior Events Executive

Mills & Reeve have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Events Executive to join our London office, working as part of our national team. Click on the link to learn more and apply!

The role

Responsible for the successful planning and execution of a diverse portfolio of events across the firm, including large scale, complex and high profile programmes. This includes advising teams on how to ensure their events achieve their business development goals, working within best practice guidelines and using your judgement and experience to manage competing priorities and stakeholder expectations.

Success in this role requires working with a wide range of people across the Marketing team, the firm more widely and external suppliers. You will act as a trusted adviser to internal clients, helping shape event approaches and ensuring consistent application of best practice.

IT systems are central to our events processes, and you will be expected to use these effectively to support delivery, reporting and continuous improvement.

You will be part of the events team, who work closely together and support each other. The team sits within the wider Marketing function and is based across Birmingham, Cambridge, London, Leeds, Manchester and Norwich, also supporting Oxford.

The person

Given the level of this role, it is likely that your background and experience will have:

• Significant experience delivering a wide range of events, including large scale and complex programmes
• Experience in an events role, preferably within a legal or professional services environment
• The ability to work independently, managing your own workload and priorities with minimal supervision
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with confidence working with senior colleagues
• Proven ability to manage multiple projects and competing priorities
• Strong commercial awareness and experience of managing event budgets
• Excellent IT skills across office software, event platforms, CRM systems and digital tools
• Excellent organisation and attention to detail
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to convey complex matters clearly
• Strong people skills and a collaborative approach
  
  

The role additionally requires

• Flexibility for early starts and late finishes when events are planned
• Being self managed and confident in setting and prioritising your own work agenda
• Confidence to build strong, credible relationships with clients, lawyers and internal colleagues
• A proactive, solutions focused approach with sound judgement and decision making
• A structured, methodical way of working with consistent attention to detail
• Willingness to support, mentor and share knowledge across the team
• Openness to taking on new responsibilities and contributing to continuous improvement
  
  

The activities

Some Of Your Responsibilities Will Include

• Planning and delivering a successful portfolio of marketing events across face to face and virtual formats, including large scale, complex and high profile programmes.
• Taking full ownership of event delivery from brief through to evaluation, including timelines, logistics, budget management and stakeholder coordination.
• Communication with internal and external contacts to ensure expectations are aligned with delivery, including acting as the primary point of contact for senior stakeholders.
• Keeping internal clients, including lead fee earners and BD advisers, informed of progress, expectations and their responsibilities.
• Producing detailed event plans, including timelines, venues or rooms, suppliers and budgets, and managing multiple concurrent projects to a high standard.
• Leading complex events involving multiple workstreams, suppliers and senior stakeholders.
• Booking internal rooms or external venues and arranging catering and facilities for in person and hybrid events.
• Working closely with Comms, Tech and IT to ensure effective and high quality delivery of in person and digital events.
• Managing invitation processes, monitoring responses and supporting marketing activity including social media where appropriate.
• Training and guiding lawyers through virtual and in-person event delivery
• Identifying risks, resolving issues proactively and escalating where appropriate.
• Managing event budgets with accountability and a strong level of commercial awareness.
• Ensuring the firm's CRM system is utilised throughout the event process to capture client data accurately.
• Managing and reporting on event feedback and return on investment, ensuring learnings are captured and shared.
• Attending and leading delivery at events to ensure a seamless, high quality client experience.
• Supporting the development of junior team members, including mentoring and sharing knowledge.
• Identifying and implementing improvements to processes, systems and ways of working.
  
  

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

The Benefits

As you'd expect, we offer a competitive salary and a wide range of benefits. Click here to find out more about our core benefit offering.

Pre employment screening

If we offer you a role, we will conduct comprehensive pre-employment screening. This screening will include, but is not limited to, a basic DBS, verification of your right to work, a three year employment history and a self-declaration to assess your character and suitability for the role. Full details of our pre-screening employment process are available upon request.

The firm

Mills & Reeve is centred on achieving more for clients, their businesses and the wider communities we serve. Our clients and their industries benefit from our knowledge and learning, and receive consistent experiences with no surprises. We tell them what they need to know when they need to know it.

We build personal relationships, with advice individually tailored to individual need. And if clients need things we don't offer, we draw on our network to give recommendations. Our 1,450 plus people and over 850 lawyers share one vision – achieving more for clients.

By joining Mills & Reeve, you'll have the chance to build your skills and experience within a firm that's not only ranked in the top 50 UK law firms, but also one that truly values their people. We're also ranked in The Sunday Times Best Places to Work list, and have been awarded Platinum Investors in People. Our mantra is “Achieve more. Together.”, which we feel embodies our purpose and is more than just a catchphrase!

Our values are the principles that help us fulfil our purpose. Our people shaped them and live them every day.

• We're ambitious - We aim high, we embrace new ideas and we're passionate about our work
• We're open - We communicate openly and honestly to build trust, and we do what's right
• We care - We're committed to each other, our clients, our communities and the planet
• We collaborate - We're easy to work with, we offer help willingly and we get things done – together
  
  

And finally

Everyone at Mills & Reeve brings a unique perspective and ideas to the team and we do everything we can to help each person to thrive. We're committed to providing an inclusive and supportive working environment, are happy to consider flexible working arrangements, and want to achieve the right balance for both our people and the firm. We encourage everyone to ask if they feel they need any workplace adjustments, and will do our best to support with these.

To find out more about our diversity and inclusion work, visit our website .