Marketing & Events Manager Part-Time - Merchant Square

Purpose of the Role

Merchant Square is Glasgow’s iconic dining, drinks and entertainment venue at the heart of the Merchant City. Home to an eclectic mix of restaurants, bars, experiences and events, Merchant Square plays host to a popular programme of events. These include Glasgow’s biggest Hogmanay party, festivals, live sports, conferences, charity events, markets, fairs and many more. It can also be hired out as a unique private event venue for up to 2,400 guests.

This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced professional with a passion for delivering great events and a love for Glasgow’s entertainment scene. You’ll own and shape the Merchant Square events programme as one of the city’s leading venues.

This is a highly flexible role, but the successful candidate would be required to work occasional evenings and weekends to deliver events where required.

The role will be largely working from home with a proportion of time spent at Merchant Square.

Key Responsibilities

Main responsibilities

• Delivery of the annual events programme:
  • Creating an annual plan of public events
  • Managing the delivery of these events
  • Securing income and sponsorship
  • Managing the budget (income and expenditure)
  • Evaluation and reporting
• Increasing income from private venue hire:
  • Raising the profile of Merchant Square as a venue for hire, targeting potential customers (directly and event companies/agencies)
  • Handling venue hire enquiries and providing quotes
  • Providing an events management service to venue hire customers
  • Managing suppliers and liaising with Merchant Square tenants
  • Budgeting, invoicing & reporting
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• Merchant Square marketing:
  • Managing social media channels and creating some content
  • Collecting marketing material such as special offers from tenants
  • Updating the Merchant Square website
  • Creating marketing materials for events
  • Managing marketing suppliers such as the content creator
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• Developing relationships and liaising with partners and suppliers:
  • Merchant Square tenants including regular meetings
  • Local, city and destination partners
  • Sponsors
  • Events suppliers

Skills, Knowledge and Experience

Essential criteria and experience

• Full event production for major public events
• Experience organising temporary entertainment licences and possession of a personal licence
• Hospitality experience is preferred
• Event income generation and event profit and loss management
• Securing sponsorship
• Full Health and Safety management and implementation
• Security planning
• Marketing and content experience preferred

Working Hours - 24 Hours Per week. Some weekend and evening working subject to major event requirements. 

Salary - £25,000 to £27,000 per annum subject to experience, plus business generation bonus / commission payment 

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