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London Area, United Kingdom

London Area, United Kingdom

As Event Manager at The Londoner, I served as the primary point of contact overseeing a diverse range of events. This included charity gala dinners, award ceremonies, music concerts, DDR conferences, drinks receptions, press shoots, weddings, silent auctions, VIP events, menu tastings, and meetings.I oversaw the revenue of individual events up to £750k. This entailed managing a team of up to 80 staff members catering to up to 1000 guests.I was involved with the full journey from the initial planning stages to event completion. There was four key areas to my role, including serving as the main point of contact for the event, planning and editing the running order, managing kitchen timings, and overseeing the bar for beverages. I had the privilege of orchestrating events for renowned personalities such as Busted and Rita Ora, and have looked after esteemed clients like Girls Aloud and David Beckham. Furthermore, I've successfully executed some of London's most noteworthy events, including Global’s Make Some Noise and the Olivier Awards. I have worked with huge clients such as Condé Nast, Estée Lauder, Love GOSH, British Film Awards, TRIC Awards, Hermes, Capital Radio, The Conservative Party, Audemars Piguet and London Fashion Week.

London, England, United Kingdom

As Senior Event Manager I was tasked with managing the full day to day logistics and running order of the event. I was working across a variety of festivals, conferences and live activations managing budgets of up to £250k. Some of the campaigns I worked on were, Tate Modern, Boardmasters, Lovebox and All Points East. My role was to arrange and coordinate promotional, social and film events, such as festival activations, exhibitions and film production advertisement. I was responsible for the smooth running of events.I had to source suitable venues, advertise the events and perform additional tasks on the day necessary to run a smooth and successful event I was also responsible for recruiting and managing employees across each event. We hired agency staff on work on a short-term basis for events that needed extra staff. We also worked within film production. When working in film production the position required me to remain in direct contact with the production team, working alongside the main cast and directors. I’d receive the call sheet from production where we would be on set and organise the tasks and location of the staff. This included managing the move between the studio and location including installation of the marquee. Being reactive and using my initiative to implement last minute changes was key to ensure the needs of high profile actors and directors were met with the upmost professionalism.

London Area, United Kingdom

I was contracted to run the University’s first graduations and inductions since 2019. The budget for this project was £1.5 million. My role involved the planning and coordination leading up to both forms of events then running the events with a team of 45+ staff. We had 3 years’ worth of graduations taking place across 2 weeks. The build was a large marquee that held up to 2,000 people for each event and on average we did 3 events a day. Inductions consisted of a fresher fair and getting 6,000 students prepared for their first year. I returned to the university in 2023 to run their graduations again.

London, England, United Kingdom

I was responsible for managing accounts at; Dre Beats, Taste Food London, Adidas, John Lewis, Philip Morris and Upload Agency. At Philip Morris I worked for IQOS on a variety of campaigns and festivals. I was part of the team that launched UK campaigns. After great success in London, I was then asked to head up operations and launch the product in Manchester. I worked on a variety of campaigns; F1 at Silverstone, MotoGP, Goodwood Festival of Speed, Birmingham Business Convention, collaborations, and various modelling agencies for London Fashion Week. In addition to these campaigns, I worked throughout Mayfair venues activating bars, restaurants and clubs as IQOS friendly venues. I ran all popup events and summer lounges which included food, a bar and live music. I managed teams of up to 30 members of staff at various locations in London.In a collaboration with Adidas for the launch of the new predator boot. We changed the whole Adidas flagship store to time travel through the time of the predator. We had guest appearances from Paul Pogba and Dele Alli competing in a range of challenges. For another launch we teamed up with Pro:Direct and Wall Jam hosting various competitions for the Pro:Direct academy at the Bike Shed in Shoreditch.One of the largest events I've ran was the NFL PepsiMAX campaign at Wembley and the NFL parade on Regent Street. Footfall was over 100,000 attending each event. I had a team of 40 at 3 different locations.

Manchester, United Kingdom

I headed up the Consultancy market focusing on Business Change companies. I was account manager for clients such as Next, John Lewis and PLT. I hit all my quarterly targets, in my first year I billed £57k and £83k in my second. My largest deal was £28k. I operated throughout Business Change & Transformation for both contract and permanent positions. Recruiting for directors gave me experience of having high level discussions with senior professionals.

Manchester/Ibiza

I managed the promotions team in 2010 responsible for the DJ mag best club in the world campaign. That year we won the campaign it was an amazing achievement. After such great success in Manchester, we opened a Sankeys Ibiza. I started off as a ticket sales manager then launched my own nights at the club. After lots of market research I decided to launch a student night, it was the first student night to come to Sankeys.

Ba (Hons) Business Enterprise, Business, Management, Marketing, And Related Support Services

Modules of study: Digital Marketing Communications Management, Project Management, Social Enterprise, International and Global Marketing.

A-Levels, Business Studies, Physical Education, Sociology, English