Description
Event Manager
Liverpool
Contract
£180 to £240 per Day
Duties & Responsibilities
- Management and delivery of plans to ensure all necessary preparation and execution tasks and dependencies are included. Ongoing management of those plans to achieve the delivery goals
- Work with key stakeholders to manage the deployment of all aspects of the project assigned to
- Identify and mitigate potential risks for delivery of products
- Operate as a full member of the team; supporting the Programme Director and other team members as directed Project Manage all aspects of specific work packages
- Working with stakeholders to ensure Design; Delivery; Technical Build; testing; MI requirements etc are managed and delivered to date and time Completion of detailed plan for the medium term including MSP; Resources; costs Completion of the detailed design phase to time and quality; working with the Design team to secure stakeholder sign-off at all stages.
- Development of stakeholder relationship with suppliers; including preparation of joint plans; proposals and any design and build documentation.
- Completion of the high level plan through to Go Live and BAU handover.
- Experience in the delivery of projects; with particular emphasis on the management of suppliers and stakeholders
- Experience of governance and risk control frameworks
- Good planning and organisational skills
- Strong leadership; people and communications skills
- Possess strong analytical skills with a proven ability to persuade and influence senior decision-making.
Required experience
- Project and programme management: show excellent programme and project management skills to ensure we reach our objectives in an efficient and ordered way
- Leadership: influencing and building close relationships with senior stakeholders in UK and overseas - within Client and with some key business organisations
- People management: show good team management skills to help inspire the team around them to work towards challenging targets
- Financial management: show real rigour when managing the project budget so that they can demonstrate ROI, show public funds have been fully accounted for and that value for money has been achieved.
- Passion - the need to get colleagues from across the network fully enthused when they have competing priorities
- To professionally project manage the successful delivery of a range of BBE activities
- Provide a continued focus on the UK's policy for restoring sustainable economic growth while also linking in with the UK Growth Agenda
- Provide the UK Government with the opportunity to highlight investment as a key priority area via BBE activity
- Continue to build upon the Olympic business Legacy
- Planning, leading, project managing, delivering and evaluating of a successful British Business Embassy (BBE)
5+ years of relevant experience
- Ability to effectively work under tight deadlines
- Experience in leading projects independently
- Resourcefulness in solving problems
- Good interpersonal skills
- Experience in working in large, complex environments
- Strong organizational skills and keen attention to detail
- Excellent computer & IT skills
- Superior professionalism and judgment
- Strong work ethic