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Overview

Role Title: Senior Programmes Events Manager

Role ID: 2024 - 2664

Location: Madrid, Brussels

Ricardo is creating a world fit for the future

Ricardo Energy & Environment is a leading sustainability consultancy combining energy, climate change, environmental and chemical risk expertise with strong IT and economics capability. Operating across the world, we work in partnership with our customers to help transform the way they work, empowering business leaders with award winning consultancy advice. With unrivalled sector insight and a reputation for producing innovative solutions, we offer a stimulating and rewarding environment in which to work.

As the Senior Events Manager, your mission is to oversee a diverse event portfolio for key clients such as the European Commission and the UK Government. Your focus will be on ensuring seamless project execution and nurturing client relationships. Events span in-person, virtual, and hybrid formats, encompassing stakeholder gatherings, workshops, symposiums, and extensive conferences with accompanying exhibitions and social engagements.

Your responsibilities will integrate into broader international policy and strategy initiatives, enhancing our impact on a global scale. As a senior member of the events team, you will align strategies with client objectives, driving success and innovation in every project. Join us in shaping the future of sustainable events and impactful collaborations.

Key Responsibilities

• Line management for the events team, motivating and guiding the team, organising and prioritising work and monitoring progress.
• Working from Terms of Reference and briefs to fully meet customer objectives. Detailed planning and scheduling of project milestones.
• Overseeing multiple projects across the busy programme calendar and managing changes. Working to agreed budgets, forecasting and tracking costs, and working across several budgets concurrently.
• Venue searching and the preparation of recommendations.
• Negotiating agreements with international suppliers, including for complex hybrid conferences in the UK and EU.
• Leading all event logistics, including sourcing and negotiating with external suppliers, raising production timelines and scheduling shipments.
• Inputting into marketing and promotional campaigns using varied communication channels and developing display assets and collateral.
• Overseeing and monitoring the delegate management process, from invitations, registrations, and brand-aligned communications, to on-site registration and delegate engagement.
• Overseeing VIP management, including hospitality arrangements. Closely managing speakers’ participation through clear and timely communications while following etiquette protocols.
• On-site management during event set-up and delivery. Leading the delivery team and liaising directly with suppliers to ensure first-class production values.
• Responsible for compiling and providing post-event reports. Ensuring reporting commitments are fulfilled and performance against KPIs is tracked and demonstrated.
  
  

About You

• Excellent communication skills – you are comfortable and credible engaging with senior internal and external stakeholders.
• Good attention to detail to ensure a high quality of your and your team’s work, suitable for scrutiny by senior customers and external stakeholders.
• Good awareness of online event platforms and prior experience in delivering webinars and hybrid events.
• Understanding of different communication channels and digital tools, using this knowledge to positively impact event performance.
• Team leadership: You enjoy leading and working in a team, helping to create clarity, actively promoting your team member’s personal and professional development, their access to training and experience, their ability to grow in their role and stay current in their fields of expertise.
• Customer-focused: You can build and maintain strong and productive customer relationships, establishing the customers' trust and confidence in the company’s capabilities.
• Commercially minded: You can manage customer expectations in line with the agreed budget, ensuring that we do not overcommit while balancing the customer relationship and ability to win future work. You can also create opportunities to expand our service offering to customers through demonstration of expertise.
• Collaborative: You are comfortable working closely with senior colleagues across the business, providing advice and informing decision-making to ensure successful project outcomes.
• Creative: You enjoy the creative challenge of bringing an event to life through engaging and participatory activities and exceeding customers' expectations.
• Enthusiastic and agile: You are passionate about events and can adapt your behaviours and guide your team to help meet the customer's needs.
• Exceptional organisational and planning skills. You are comfortable multi-tasking and working on multiple projects at the same time.
  
  

What We Offer

Our Culture

This is an exciting and rewarding place to work, with the opportunity to make a difference. What sets us apart is our People. You will work with an exceptional team of talented, dedicated, and supportive individuals. You will have a fantastic opportunity to develop your career with us through our broad range of projects, mentoring opportunities and a personalised approach to your learning and development. We are always keen to hear from people who have drive, ambition and a flair for innovative thinking.

Flexibility, Wellbeing and Work-life Balance

We offer flexible approaches to work, whether that’s working from home, being in the office, or as a hybrid worker. We’re happy to discuss flexible working arrangements. Wellbeing is at the core to our culture, allowing employees to flourish and to achieve their full potential.

Our People are important to us and we take pride in our wellbeing programmes and policies that support individuals including flexible working, carers policy, mental health first aiders and readily available support through our extensive Employee Assistance programme.

Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion Statement

Ricardo Energy & Environment is an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours. We have an ambitious diversity, equality, and inclusion approach as explained here .

We value diversity; recognising that a more diverse workforce creates a richer and more varied working environment. Diversity also drives innovation, by allowing us to offer our clients the best consultancy service that we can.

As part of our commitment to engage positively and proactively with all our employees and ensure a culture of inclusivity, we are a recognised as a 'disability confident’ employer.

Benefits

Our Core benefits include 25 days’ annual leave, plus 8 flexible bank holidays, a competitive company pension scheme, life assurance and professional subscriptions reimbursement. We also offer a wide range of flexible benefits to suit your lifestyle.

What Next

Once you have submitted your application a member of our Recruitment Team will be in touch. Please be aware that the timing can vary dependent on the volume of applications that we receive for each role and in some cases, we may start to review applications prior to the closing date.