Bilingual Events Executive

Bilingual Events Executive (Maternity Contract)

Location: Halifax

Salary: £30,000 - £35,000

Hybrid working, 3 days in the office, 2 days from home

Are you a skilled Events Exec, Personal Assistant or Executive Assistant with language skills (French, German or Spanish) perhaps looking for a change of role? Are you based near or within commutable distance of Halifax? Do you have exceptional organisational and communication skills to utilise within a new busy and challenging role? If so, this could be an excellent opportunity for you to consider.

We are looking for an Events Executive to join a well-established and expanding company who deliver both virtual and live events to clients on a worldwide basis. Working predominantly in the pharmaceuticals sector, you will be involved in coordinating events such as large-scale conferences, annual meetings and clinical education events, a lot of which are online. Many of the clients are based in Europe and they are ideally looking for someone with conversational or fluent French, German, or Spanish.

We are looking for either an experienced Events candidate or a Personal Assistant or EA, with either French, German or Spanish languages with some events experience and a background in administration/ PA/ coordination led role.

The company offers excellent benefits and working conditions including hybrid working, your birthday off and opportunities to grow and develop your career.

What the role will involve:

• Running a large number of virtual and live events, nationally and internationally
• Taking a brief and being able to create a pitch and offer to a client directly from that brief
• Full event delivery from start to finish including weekly finance and budget sign off
• Account Management - you will need to provide quarterly updates to each client and project plan updates of upcoming events
• Venue Finding - working with Project Assistants to discuss and source appropriate event Venues, within the UK and Worldwide
• Client Liaison - Year on Year monitoring of events with proactive approach to obtaining briefs and growing the account

What we are looking for:

• European languages such as French, German or Italian - Highly desirable
• Previous events experience in the UK and Europe ideally or strong administration/ PA experience/ Coordination experience with some events exposure and languages
• Salesforce/ CRM/ Systems experience is an advantage
• Account management experience is preferred
• Pharma events background is advantageous
• Dynamic, high energy, capable, process driven
• Full UK Driving License required

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a fast growing and dynamic organisation with excellent opportunities for development and career growth. If you feel you have the required skills and experience for the role, please send through your CV asap for consideration.

Due to the amount of response we receive, unfortunately we are not able to give feedback to individuals, if you have not heard back within 7 days please assume that you have not been successful for the role you have applied for.