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Events Manager

Location: Tameside - multiple sites 

Contract: Full time, permanent

Working hours: 38.75 hours over 5 days out of 7, Monday to Sunday 

Benefits: Competitive salary, company car or car allowance, and more.

Relationships. Results. Success. At Robertson Facilities Management, we see them our way. We’re professional enough to make every collaboration count. Driven enough to deliver the very best service to everyone we work with. Friendly enough to make sure any environment we manage is as enjoyable as it is safe. Join us and you’ll join the UK’s largest family-owned construction, infrastructure and support services businesses. And as Events Manager, you’ll be part of a team that’s doing incredible things – for ourselves, for the partners we work with, and for a truly sustainable future.  

As Events Manager for Tameside, the purpose of your role is to oversee all aspects of event planning and management, including internal and external events, for Robertson Facilities Management for relevant clients within our Tameside accounts. The Event Manager’s responsibilities include providing outstanding customer service and organising memorable events that meet quality expectations.

Key responsibilities: 

• Planning and ensuring the smooth running of individual events, for example, weddings, funerals, council meetings, and high-profile events such as Mayoral Balls
• Delivering an events schedule for ticketed public pantomimes and shows.
• Promoting our events spaces and events to the public through approved branding channels and in person events such as wedding fairs. Ensure compliance with insurance, legal, health and safety obligations.
• Responsibility for P&L of the events budget and growth targets.
• Liaise with our catering manager and external suppliers to ensure customer catering needs are met and legal requirements are implemented/met (from a catering perspective).
• Manage the computerised booking diary system. Propose ideas to improve provided services and event quality.
• Organise facilities and manage all event’s details such as layout, decor, catering, entertainment, transportation, location, invitee list, special guests, equipment, promotional material et.
• Organise facilities for security, first aid and hospitality.
• Maintaining a working relationship with supply chain and coordinate with Clients’, exhibitors, and stakeholders during event planning.
• Planning multiple events at once.
• Work with procurement to ensure our supply partners deliver best value.
• Track event key performance areas and identify items to work on for future events.

About you:

To be successful in your application, you will be an experienced Events professional with a keen interest and proven success in delivering an exceptional experience for event attendees. You will have excellent organisational, time-keeping, and communication skills with the ability to manage multiple projects or events independently. You will have a flexible, target driven, and positive approach to the challenges of this type of position. 

Full, valid UK Driving Licence required. Company car or car allowance available. 

Who we’re looking for:

People are at the heart of everything we do and achieve at Robertson. To fit right into the team you’ll be friendly, professional and care about the job you do; listen to customers and work with your colleagues to support them as a team; follow procedures that keep you and our customers safe and help us maintain high standards; share our pride in making a real difference.

Working the Robertson Way 

Joining us isn’t just about seeing things our way. It’s also about working the Robertson Way too, by bringing our 5 guiding principles to life. Here’s what that means… 

We listen  

Listening enables us to work positively and collaboratively, and gives customers, partners and colleagues the assurance that their voices are always heard.  

We are professional  

Our mix of prudence and diligence, care and attention to detail means that our customers have certainty and assurance in everything we do and trust us to deliver.  

We take responsibility  

Each of us is accountable for what we do. From the smallest detail to team safety and caring for our communities and the environment, we know that everything matters.  

We are determined to succeed  

Every challenge is an opportunity. We work collaboratively and focus on safety, productivity and quality to find solutions we can be proud of and that provide a positive, lasting benefit.  

We are one team  

We work as one - in our teams and partnerships, and with our customers. We respect each contribution, and everyone stands up to be counted. We are Team Robertson. 

What’s in it for you?

In addition to a competitive annual salary, we offer a wide range of rewards and benefits including:

• Company car or car allowance 
• 33 days annual leave
• Private pension
• Life assurance
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Rewards platform for discounts with retailers, supermarkets, restaurants and more
• Annual flu vaccine
• Free Health & Wellbeing advice

When it comes to diversity and inclusion, we see things differently at Robertson. We’re a company with strong family values and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. That’s why we’re working to create a truly inclusive workplace where everyone can feel welcome, included, and where we can all be our authentic selves. 

Apply now 

If you’ve got what it takes to look at things differently, to find new perspectives, and to discover the extraordinary within the ordinary, we’d love to meet you.