native is a platform that connects students with amazing experiences, built out of a passion to help students have the best time at university and empower campus culture. We bring high quality virtual and IRL events to campuses across the UK and Ireland, whilst supporting SUs’ with powerful engagement tools.
Global brands & event organisers trust our platform to bring their events and content on to campus, and we’re proud to help support our SU partners with valuable marketing revenues and partnerships which their members feel truly engaged with.
As native’s Events Manager, you’ll be leading on numerous projects across the events department; the delivery of key projects to help the department and company exceed their targets and goals, whilst always producing experiences of the highest quality. This the perfect role for someone with a strong and diverse background in events in the events industry, with a focus on high quality and economical event delivery and production.
You must have an intrinsic understanding of how a broad range of events are not only produced safely and economically, but how they are experienced by the customer and how we can always optimise the experience for the end user. After a couple of fallow years, events are back; the team at native are hitting the ground running, already developing with huge plans to meet what we know will be a tidal wave of demand and the massive opportunities for growth as a company and an employee.
You will report to our Events Lead, as well as working closely with freelance and agency staff in addition to our customer success, brand and students’ union teams. The ideal candidate for this role should have demonstrable experience working within the events industry for at least seven years, with a broad range of experience to back-up your equally broad understanding of how to take events from concept to reality. Your experience must incorporate outdoor events or festivals, with experience working nationally within the youth, music and nightlife sectors being highly desirable. You should have your finger on the pulse when it comes to trends, music and popular culture, coupled with a strong knowledge of the student and youth market.
We are flexible on remote working. Our office is in Old St London and we meet up regularly there, this role will need to be in the office fairly regularly but as a team are remote-first.
What you'll be doing
- Lead the end to end delivery of events in-person, virtual and hybrid events
- Work to deliver industry leading events across the UK
- Manage complex levels of event logistics across multiple sectors on a national scale
- Oversee event production across a range of events including outdoor and virtual events
- Be responsible for health and safety during the planning and live stages of an event
- Attend and manage live delivery of events as the main point of contact
- Liaise directly with event venues and teams across the UK
- Input creatively to annual events programming calendar
- Help drive event sales, nationally
- Design and refine systems and tools maximise output and delivery
- Act as main point of contact at selected events
- Manage small teams of freelance and agency staff where necessary
Your Experience
- 5+ years experience in the events industry, with broad experience
- Experience with outdoor events or festival industry highly preferred
- Experience touring events and managing the logistics the drive them
- A solid understanding of event production, including tech, logistics and health and safety
- Commercially minded, with a knowledge of economics behind and events business
- You must be a problem solver, coming the table with and implementing solutions
- Experience managing multiple projects and balancing priorities
- Finger on the pulse in the events industry, as well as music and popular culture
Why will you want to join us:
This is a great opportunity to join a fast-growing and dynamic start-up at an early stage. We’re building a fantastic team of creative and driven individuals who love what they do.
We know you may not tick every box, but are open to hearing from you if you've got real potential and drive to learn & grow.
Our Benefits
- We have 25 days + bank holidays for most roles, PLUS a company-wide Christmas shutdown of around 7-10 days
- We benchmark salaries consistently, and have just launched clear frameworks for progression
- We are happy for you to work abroad for short periods, adding on time to holidays so you can travel further away or work in another country
- We give you all the kit you need to work from home
- We have a monthly wellbeing budget
- We are rolling out share options for everyone