Senior Events Executive

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Overview

Salary: £41,000 - £43,000 + up to 6% bonus

Working Location: Milton Keynes - Hybrid role.

Employment Type: Part Time, 4 days per week, 12 months - Maternity Cover

What we offer:

• 27 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) and a holiday purchase scheme
• Generous pension scheme, with an employer contribution of up to 10.5%
• Life Assurance (x4 salary)
• Subsidised private medical insurance
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Employee discounts platform, including gym discounts
• 24/7 employee assistance programme supporting your mental wellbeing
• 2 days volunteer leave
• Equalised maternity, paternity, adoption leave and pay for all new parents
• Payroll Giving, this allows you to make donations to your chosen charity through monthly pay deductions

Responsibilities

What you'll be doing

• Lead Exciting Events: Working with the Event Manager to take charge of planning and managing a variety of internal, external & digital events, across NHBC's wide ranging events programme ensuring they are delivered within budget and exceed expectations.

• Innovate: Interpret briefs from senior internal clients to develop, propose, and create innovate ideas to deliver solutions to meet these briefs.

• Collaborate: Coordinate, engage and work with multiple internal stakeholders, suppliers and venues to ensure the full lifecycle of the event is a success across all planning, delivery and debrief stages.
• Be the Go to Person: Provide high-level support across all event disciplines and step in for the Event Manager when needed, showcasing your expertise and leadership.
• Inspire: Mentor the Events Executive, using your valuable experience to provide advice and guidance on event management.

• Drive Success: Keep a close eye on budgets to make sure events are on time and within budget. Regularly check how well events are doing, set and evaluate KPIs, and create reports to drive and facilitate continuous improvement.

The ideal candidate will have

• Previous experience in event management
• Proven experience in managing and controlling event budgets
• Confidence in communicating with board-level executives.
• Excellent attention to detail, writing, and proofreading skills.
• Ability to prioritize, manage time and workloads while working to tight deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• A flexible approach to working unsociable hours as dictated by the event program.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, highly organized.
• Full UK driving licence and access to a car, solo travel across the UK will be required.
• Proficient in MS Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Teams).
• Experience with CRM systems, Event Management Systems, and virtual event platforms

Qualifications

Why you should join us

At NHBC we are proud to be unique. No other organisation in our sector combines the variety of services and scale that we offer. As the market leader, our name is synonymous with new home warranty and insurance. Our people are driven by our core purpose to raise standards in housebuilding and protect homeowners.

We are a modern, lifestyle and family friendly employer who are in a period of rapid growth, investing in technology, data and new ways of working. We need passionate, talented and driven people to join us on this journey.

We encourage our colleagues to work flexibly. We don't promise we can offer you exactly what you want, but we are always happy to talk flexible working.

Your future with us

We have lots of fantastic examples across our business of people who are building their career with us. We are huge advocates of internal mobility and work hard to retain our best talent. We offer exceptional personal development and career progression opportunities. If you're ambitious, driven and hard-working you will succeed with us. We'll support you with full training, ongoing development, and the opportunity to gain recognised qualifications and professional memberships.

Our inclusive culture

We are committed to creating an inclusive culture that encourages everyone to bring their true selves to work. We fundamentally believe in the rights of all our employees and customers to be treated fairly, with dignity and respect, free from discrimination. We have active employee networks that support our colleagues and their allies, creating safe spaces for open conversations and the sharing of ideas.

If you need any adjustments or additional support with your application, please let us know at Recruitment@nhbc.co.uk