Corporate Events Senior Manager

Location: London

Salary: Up to £70,000

We have an opportunity for a Corporate Events Senior Manager to join our team. This is a great job for someone with excellent project & budget management skills along with the capability for handling key relationships and negotiations, as well as a creative and innovative approach to event design!

A bit about the job:

The Corporate Events team is responsible for enhancing relationships with external audiences and internal employees through the development and delivery of market leading face-to-face and hybrid events (Conferences, Business Entertaining, Exhibitions, Roadshows and Award Ceremonies). This is a high-profile team interfacing internally with senior colleagues across the entire business as well as being the public face and a Brand Ambassador of the organisation at external events. Additionally, you will lead a dedicated team of Event Co-ordinators and:

• Handle significant operational budgets and contracts with appropriate negotiation to ensure Aviva’s contractual governance needs are met
• Responsible for delivering a varied and extensive range of complex/high profile/business critical projects that are developed and delivered to a market leading standard
• Accountable for tactically and strategically influencing the business on the most effective way to use meetings and events to achieve corporate objectives and business development
• Use our global event management system: Events-force, and associated record keeping ensuring Risk / Compliance / FCA Bribery and Corruption requirements are met
• Leading teams onsite and at steering groups whilst resolving issues / blockers using professional judgement both in advance of an event and in the moment onsite

Skills and experience we’re looking for:

• Experience within a major Corporate or event agency environment is essential coupled with an excellent working knowledge of the events industry
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to develop strategic business relationships external to Aviva
• A track record of people management and a proven ability to influence key decision makers
• A positive and inspiring hands-on team player, leading by example, consistently displaying the Aviva Values and helping mentor and support others
• Proven ability to lead, inspire and motivate resource in a high pressured, deadline and results driven environment. Ability to lead effectively on multiple, concurrent projects

What you’ll get for this role:

Our purpose - with you today, for a better tomorrow – is a promise we make to our colleagues too. And one of the ways we live up to that promise is by investing in you. We have so much to offer when it comes to being an Aviva colleague.

• Starting salary of up to £70,000 (depending on location, skills, experience, and qualifications)
• Bonus opportunity - 12% of annual salary Actual amount depends on your performance and Aviva’s.
• Generous pension scheme - Aviva will contribute up to 14%, depending on what you put in.
• 29 days holiday plus bank holidays, and you can choose to buy or sell up to 5 days
• Make your money go further - Up to 40% discount on Aviva products, and other retailer discounts
• Up to £1,200 of free Aviva shares per year through our Matching Share Plan and share in the success of Aviva with our Save As You Earn scheme
• Brilliantly supportive policies including parental and carer’s leave
• Flexible benefits to suit you, including sustainability options such as cycle to work
• Make a difference, be part of our Aviva Communities and use your 3 paid volunteering days to help others
• We take your wellbeing seriously with lots of support and tools

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Aviva is for everyone:

We’re inclusive and welcome everyone – we want applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.

Excited but not sure you tick every box? Research tells us that women, particularly, feel this way. So, regardless of gender, why not apply. And if you’re in a job share just apply as a pair.

We flex locations, hours and working patterns to suit our customers, business, and you. Most of our people are smart working –spending around 50% of their time in our offices every week - combining the benefits of flexibility, with time together with colleagues.

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We interview every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the job. Once you’ve applied, please send us an email stating that you have a disclosed disability, and we’ll interview you.

We’d love it if you could submit your application online. If you require an alternative method of applying, please give Tawana Chin a call on 07787 251496 or send an email to tawana.chin@aviva.com.