Global Strategic Events and Experiences, Senior Associate

The opportunity  

A fabulous opportunity for a Senior Associate to join the Global Strategic Events and Experiences team.  

Your key responsibilities 

This role delivers and supports the brand experience for clients attending EY Events and externally projects the best of the EY brand.

Success in the role depends upon practical experience of changing external brand perceptions through an event and experience-based strategy, the ability to navigate complex stakeholder management, creating linkage and connections to other parts of the business and inspiring a core team through leadership, relationships and clear direction. 

• Assist with the delivery and support on key EY global events
• Create a consistent brand experience through all facets of the events
• Support and work with senior team members on the strategic events and experiences team to ensure consistent and leading-edge brand experience by capturing and deploying best practices as necessary
• Deliver exceptional client service across a complex stakeholder map of senior leaders
• Form part of multi-functional core teams to deliver events with a culture of high performance teaming, and achieving market impact by managing the work-plan, timeline and budget of all elements of the programme
• Work closely with Legal, Procurement and Independence to ensure compliance for all events
• Seek connections across all of BMC to bring the best of EY to life (including Sector, service lines, regions and other BMC programs like Innovation Realized, WEOY, International Tax Conference, Young Tax Professional of the Year)
• Provide onsite support to manage various external vendors and agencies to ensure consistent delivery

Describe the core purpose of the role and how time is spent across the most important responsibilities. Present challenges, problems to solve, what you’ll learn etc. Also possibly covers location and travel.

In this role, you will play an important part creating and delivering some of EY’s most prestigious and innovative global flagship events.  Being able to work at a fast pace is critical to your success, and being able to respond to unforeseen circumstances with a flexible mindset and ability is key.  Amazing experience working across the globe delivering award winning events.  Based in the UK, with regular travel to the London office and significant global travel to manage events on site will be necessary. You will be responsible for supporting the team on large scale events and managing your own events.

Skills and attributes for success 

• A strong team player, comfortable working collaboratively in a support capacity, virtually and also independently when required
• Strategic brand, marketing and communications expertise, including end to end global event design, delivery and management experience 
• Extremely organised and able to manage complex projects autonomously and to support team members with their projects
• Ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines, managing multiple stakeholders, time zones and priorities effectively
• Ability to navigate through change and manage ambiguity including cultural awareness

To qualify for the role you must have

• Experience in a cross-border role, successfully managing complex event projects at a global level – either gained from in house corporate or event management agency roles.
• Experience of delivering brand, marketing and communications projects in/for global organizations
• Outstanding communication abilities
• A good understanding of current event technology

Ideally, you’ll also have

• Experience of delivering multiple events on a global basis
• Experience of working under pressure
• Ability and flexibility to travel 

What we look for

We’re looking for an experienced, high-energy individual who embraces change and innovation in order to ensure that we can continue to deliver world-class BMC events in an ever-changing environment.