Events Manager - 6 Month FTC - Corporate Events

Job Description Events Manager – 6 Month FTC - Corporate Events

Location and working pattern

This is a hybrid position requiring a minimum of two days per week in our London office to facilitate team collaboration and organisational integration, with flexibility to work remotely for the remaining days. The role also requires the ability to travel, including overnight stays as necessary, to support event delivery and related business activities.

We’re seeking a highly organised, experienced, and proactive Events Manager to join our team. In this role, you’ll support the Head of Events and Senior Events Manager in delivering exceptional in-person and virtual events, ensuring the organisation’s external presence is consistently professional, creative, and impactful. Ideally, you’ll bring experience from a financial services environment and have proven ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously while meeting competing deadlines. You’ll demonstrate excellent organisational and logistical skills, with proficiency in Cvent considered an advantage. A forward-thinking mindset is essential. We’re looking for a collaborative team player who shows initiative, has a genuine passion for events, and contributes positively and effectively within a team environment.

• Supporting the Head of Events and Senior Event Manager, to deliver a portfolio of client and internal events (in person and virtual).
• Collaboration with extended Marketing team as well as internal stakeholders.
• Supporting to business to deliver a high-quality event programme.
• Managing a range of events from inception to completion and post-event actions.
• Coordinate logistics, audience, budget, event promotion
• Oversee the sign off process for event marketing materials.
• Source venues
• Liaison with suppliers
• Co-ordinate information from a range of sources
• Contributing to planning documents and tools

Minimum of 3 years’ experience in a corporate events role.

Proficiency in Microsoft Office

Competency in Cvent

Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.

Proven experience in planning and delivering both in-person and virtual events from concept through to completion and post-event evaluation.

Confidence in engaging with senior colleagues and customers.

Competency with statistics and reporting.

A ‘can do’ and solutions driven mindset.

Desire and willingness to travel.

Good geographical knowledge of the UK.

Understanding of working in a regulated environment.

Flexible approach to change with a laser customer focus.

Ability to work well under pressure and to tight deadlines.

Commercial awareness.

A creative and proactive approach, capable of generating ideas and contributing to impactful event and marketing activity.

Confidence in liaising with suppliers, sourcing venues, managing budgets, and coordinating logistics.

Strong collaboration skills, working effectively with colleagues across marketing and internal teams while managing the ability to work independently when required.

Exceptional attention to detail, accuracy, and professionalism.

A flexible, solutions focused mindset with a strong work ethic and commitment to delivering high quality outcomes.

Your friends would describe you as the organised one, calm under pressure. You enjoy using your initiative and problem-solving skills to identify the best course of action ahead of time, going the extra mile to ensure you deliver a positive result. You can build and maintain strong relationships, negotiate confidently, communicate well, and maintain your sense of humour even when things get busy. You can resolve issues and make tough decisions quickly, confidently, and are flexible to do whatever needs to be done to achieve a positive outcome. You enjoy varied work, fast-moving environments and collaborating across teams You can work independently, but you also value being part of a supportive, multi-site team aligned around shared goals and values. You demonstrate accountability by taking ownership of your work and delivering on commitments. You want to learn and understand, are naturally curious. You are flexible and willing to take a hands-on approach when needed, while maintaining excellent organisation and attention to detail. You bring creativity to your work, identifying insights, opportunities, and innovative approaches, and you thrive in a collaborative environment, leveraging the strengths of the team around you to achieve the best results.

A little about us

We’re the Nucleus Financial Platforms group and we help make retirement more rewarding. Here at Nucleus, people come first - whether it’s our colleagues, or the advisers and customers we support, we know that working in partnership and collaboration leads to the best outcomes. Together, we’ve shaped the platform to how it is today. We work hard, and we celebrate hard too. Our ambition is to create a platform with a difference, putting the customer centre stage meant tearing up the rule book and starting from scratch. We’ve come a long way since then, but our mission remains just as focused. That’s why our culture, values, and social responsibility are things we keep at the top of our agenda – because we know they matter and have a big impact. Our culture is one of the many things that sets us apart from the pack. We want to have an environment where our people feel that they can make a real difference, know they’ll be rewarded for their efforts and more importantly, enjoy themselves at work.

Are we a perfect match? Check out this video and find out!

Inclusion and diversity at Nucleus

As with most things in life, who cares, wins. We really care about inclusion. For us it’s not a tick box exercise; inclusion and diversity are embedded in our culture and everything we do. It’s a commercial imperative. It isn’t about being PC. It’s about being future-relevant and durable. We owe it to ourselves and the industry to ensure we are playing our part in creating a fair, balanced and transparent financial services sector. More diversity means broader experience, a wider set of perspectives and a better collective ability to problem-solve. And it means being more representative of customer groups, which supports areas such as product development.

At Nucleus, we offer a generous blend of benefits for the things that really matter to our people, including a non-contributory pension, bonus, enhanced parental leave, paid time off for emergencies, health and wellbeing initiatives and flexible working options.

If you’d like to find out more about us or the role, get in touch with our People team.