Do you have good events management experience, with an ability to lead and motivate people? Are you interested in working in distinctive and truly remarkable settings?
About us
Science Museum Group's Enterprises is an integral, profit-making function, allowing our museums to keep our collections accessible whilst investing in our cultural offer and customer experience. The Events team support with promoting our spaces and running amazing events, ranging from conferences, product launches, dinners, receptions, Christmas parties and private events.
To support the Events team across our Northern museums, we are now seeking a Group Event Operations Manager to join us on a full-time permanent basis, based in any of our museums located in Manchester, York, Shildon or Bradford.
Please note - due to the nature of this role, some travel across all our Northern sites is an expectation.
About the role
This role will have prime responsibility for organising and delivering corporate, private and commercial events, as well as maximising on our space for hire at our Northern sites. You will develop and maintain a good relationship with key Museum stakeholders, accredited suppliers and the wider Events Team to ensure the effective delivery of the events calendar. Along with this, you will monitor monthly revenue, expenditure and budgets to measure and develop the profitability of events. You will also work closely with the Event Sales and Marketing Managers to manage event bookings and support wider Museum projects, and will be involved in recruiting, training and developing future Events Managers.
Download the Vacancy Information Pack file under 'Attachments' on this vacancy listing on the Science Museum Group website for more details about the role and the application process.
About you
Joining us, you will bring solid event management experience (ideally medium- to large-scale events in multi-use venues), with practical knowledge of the Health & Safety at Work Act, particularly with reference to event management. You will hold line management experience with the ability to train and develop team members and will lead by example with a collaborative and flexible approach. Knowledge and experience of corporate and private hire market will be useful, as will the ability to work with clients from both markets on all levels. In this role, a high level of customer service skills will be crucial
Don't feel you meet all the criteria? We welcome you to apply even if your experience doesn't match directly. With your transferable skills, you could be the right candidate for this, or other opportunities that we have.
What we offer
Joining us as an employee, you will have the opportunity to develop your career in a world-class museum group. We understand that work/life balance and wellbeing is crucial to our colleagues, so we offer the perks listed below, as well as support for things that happen in life such as parental and adoption leave, sickness, and career breaks.
- Support with personal and professional development
- 27 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays
- Employee assistance programme
- Enhanced contributory pension
- Unmind App and other wellbeing support
- Interest-free loans
- Days Out discounts
- Health & Dental Insurance
Open for All is one of the Science Museum Group's five core values and sets out our important aspiration to be a place for everyone. We are working hard to understand our organisation better and to develop a culture that recognises and values different backgrounds, mindsets, skills, experience, knowledge, and expertise. By having greater diversity, we believe that we will be a stronger and better organisation, capable to continue to Inspire Futures.
