Senior Head of Event Management

Senior Head of Event Management - Arenas
£60,000 - £70,000 + Bonus + Excellent Benefits
Hybrid
Birmingham
A rare opportunity to work for an award-winning events business as their Senior Head of Event Management.
The Senior Head of Event Management will lead a team of 5 direct reports, providing exceptional leadership, ensuring individual and team performance standards remain central whilst delivering on all health and safety processes and procedures.
Are you ready to take centre stage in the world of live events? If you’re passionate about crafting unforgettable experiences, providing strong leadership, ensuring client expectations and financial targets are achieved and service levels monitored through effective people, financial and event processes, this is your moment to shine!
What We’re Looking For
We need someone who’s as comfortable in the boardroom as they are in a buzzing arena, the successful candidate must have strong arena experience.
Key responsibilities include:

• Ensure all events deliver against the EM’s commercial objectives for both back and front of house.
  
• Deliver and lead an event planning and delivery framework, which delivers on both internal and external expectations.
  
• Work with other senior operational leaders to deliver a coherent command and control strategy, ensuring all event managers can deliver on event night.
  
• Perform as a point of escalation for promoters whilst ensuring the team are delivering on the expected timelines for advancing and delivering all shows.
  
• Proactively engage with the wider Event services team and venue departments, building positive, effective, and robust working relationships to guarantee a collaborative approach and consistent team effort.
  
• Working closely with Health and Safety colleagues, proactively contribute toward critical reviews of emergency, safety, and security procedures.
  
• Maintain, update, and communicate strategic planning of department expectations relating to the continuity of essential service processes in line with the group and business recovery plan.
  Essential Experience:
  
• Demonstrable experience in managing large events – 5 years + - must havce strong arena experience.
  
• Understand entertainment / stadia /arena security and crowd management.
  
• Strong team management experience
  
• Commercially astute with sound financial management skills
  
• A great leader, who can influence and inspire others.
  
• A brilliant people manager, putting people first and supporting others.
  
• Positive relationship building with police and professional bodies.
  
• An infectious can-do approach to great health and safety management
  
• Results focused, driving exceptional results through your team and others.
  
• Drive strong performance.
  
• Experience of managing and developing control rooms.
  
• Ideally hold H&S Qualification/s such as NEBOSH General Certificate, NVQ L4 Spectator Safety
  Lipton Media is a specialist media recruitment agency based in London. We specialise in all forms of b2b media sales including conferences, exhibitions, awards, summits, publishing, digital, outdoor, TV, radio and business intelligence.
  Our clients range from small start-up companies to FTSE 100 and 250 businesses. We work with people at every stage of their career from undergraduates looking for their first entry point into sales to senior managers and directors looking for their next challenge