Arden Strategies is a fast-growing public affairs and strategic communications consultancy that supports clients to understand and navigate the worlds of politics, policy, and the media.

Our clients span a wide range of sectors and range in size from FTSE100 industry leaders to agile and ambitious start-ups.

The Senior Events Manager plays a central role in supporting our clients. They are responsible for planning and delivering a programme of high profile, high quality events. From policy roundtables in Westminster to party conference fringe events, the successful candidate will ensure every event achieves its objectives. Party conferences are a major part of the role, and the Senior Events Manager will lead our presence at the conferences each year.

This role is suitable for someone with 4-5 years' experience in events, ideally with an interest or background in politics, policy or the media.

Key responsibilities:

• Planning and delivering end-to-end events for clients and for Arden, including receptions, dinners, panels, roundtables and breakfast briefings
• Leading Arden's presence at the party conferences, including fringe events, receptions and meeting programmes, as well as logistics
• Working with client teams to make sure each event supports the client's objectives
• Managing event budgets, suppliers and venues
• Project managing and progress tracking of all elements of the event
• Building and managing guest lists and invitations, including outreach to key stakeholder including parliamentarians and business leaders
• Running events on the day and leading post-event evaluation
• Maintaining relationships with external suppliers including venues, caterers and AV production crews

Essential skills:

• Experience of planning and end-to-end delivery of high-quality events
• Experience of delivering large scale events
• A good understanding of UK politics and the Parliamentary calendar
• Confident written and verbal communicator
• Strong organisational and project management skills, with excellent attention to detail
• Adept at working as part of a team and comfortable working with senior clients and stakeholders
• Familiarity with event management applications such as Eventbrite