Event Operations Manager
Description du poste
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Are you an Event Operations Manager looking to work on some of the UK's most exciting live events?
We're looking for an experienced Event Operations Manager to join our client who are going through an exciting period of growth who bring technically flawless productions to life across the UK. If you thrive in a fast-paced environment and love turning complex technical plans into seamless experiences, this is the role for you.
Benefits include:
- Exciting national projects
- Office-based, with Fridays WFH after onboarding
- Career progression opportunities
- Supportive, collaborative team culture
- Holiday: 32 days, including 8 bank holidays
THE COMPANY
Join a multi award-winning event production and entertainment company that creates extraordinary experiences for leading brands across corporate, exhibition, and activation sectors. This team is known for its professionalism, creativity, and supportive culture - a place where a
Event Operations Manager can thrive and grow.
THE ROLE
As Event Operations Manager you'll sit at the heart of the action and join the team alongside the Operations Director to support a team with more events than ever and an increasingly complex schedule.
You will own the scheduling, logistics and crew operations that keep the agency firing on all cylinders. From the moment a contract is signed to the moment the last van leaves the venue, your job is to make sure everything in between is planned, resourced and executed to their 5* standards.
This role is primarily office-based with some warehouse and occasional on-site presence, with key responsibilities to include:
- Implementing and overseeing complex event scheduling for the delivery team.
- Managing timings, locations, shift types and suitability for both events and warehouse days.
- Supporting the Operations Director with solving complex scheduling challenges and constantly finding better ways to do things
- Building and maintaining regular part-time crew (including hiring) to support the business all year round
- Ensuring part-time team are sufficiently trained for the jobs they're scheduled on
- Hiring in equipment as and when required to fulfil our sales orders
- Renting and allocating vehicles and team transport
- Driving License required
THE CANDIDATE
As Event Operations Manager you'll bring solid experience in overseeing the job resourcing and keep things moving forward! We need someone who is commercially sharp, deeply organised, and relentlessly improvement-focused.
You should have experience as an Event Operations Manager with excellent organisational and time management skills - with the ability to prioritise tasks and meet event deadlines.
A highly meticulous mind - strong attention to detail with the ability to multitask across many moving parts simultaneously.
Driving License: Required
Live specialises in all disciplines (and at all levels) across events, experiential and exhibitions. If this position isn't quite what you're looking for please visit live-recruitment.co.uk to view all of the opportunities, we are recruiting.
As a specialist events recruitment agency we help our clients build the most talented and diverse teams in the UK. We encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds, embracing diversity across all intersecting dimensions, including ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, well-being, abilities, and neurodiversity. We are dedicated to ensuring a supportive and accessible recruitment process. If you require any adjustments or accommodations for any reason, please do not hesitate to let us know.
Vacancy Ref: SP17319
Compétences clés extraites
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Nos conseils pour postuler
5 recommandations générées par notre IA pour maximiser vos chances.
⭐ Open your CV personal statement with the phrase 'Event Operations Manager' and reference live event production experience directly, as the advert repeats this title throughout and ATS will scan for exact matches.
📊 Quantify your scheduling scope: e.g. 'Managed crew scheduling for 80+ events per year across 12 UK venues, coordinating 30 part-time crew members per event cycle'.
🎯 Explicitly mention experience across corporate, exhibition, and brand activation sectors — the advert names all three as core client types, so matching this language signals direct relevance.
🚗 Include your full UK driving licence prominently in your profile or skills section, as the advert lists it as a hard requirement.
🔧 Highlight any experience with equipment hire processes and vehicle/transport allocation — these are called out as specific responsibilities and are easy differentiators most candidates omit from their CVs.
Bullets CV suggérés
3 bullets générés par notre IA pour cette offre, alignés sur ses mots-clés ATS.
Ajoutez ces 3 bullets sous votre expérience la plus récente :
- •Owned end-to-end crew scheduling for 75+ live events annually, coordinating 28 part-time crew members per cycle and reducing unfilled shifts by 35% through a structured availability management process.
- •Implemented a centralised equipment hire tracking system across 3 concurrent national event programmes, cutting last-minute hire costs by £18,000 over a 12-month period.
- •Managed vehicle fleet allocation and transport logistics for a 12-event national tour, coordinating 8 rental vehicles and 20 crew travel itineraries with zero on-day transport failures.
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Dear Hiring Manager,
Live Recruitment's search for an Event Operations Manager to join a multi award-winning event production company is exactly the challenge I have been looking for. Having built a career around complex event scheduling, crew resourcing, and end-to-end logistics for live productions, I am confident I can step in alongside the Operations Director and immediately add structure to an increasingly demanding national schedule.
My background in event operations spans corporate, exhibition, and activation environments where I have managed part-time crew pools of 25 or more, coordinated equipment hire across concurrent events, and introduced scheduling processes that reduced last-minute resourcing gaps by roughly 30%. I hold a full UK driving licence and am comfortable moving between office, warehouse, and on-site settings as the role demands.
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Questions probables d'entretien
10 questions générées à partir de cette offre.
Techniques
- ›Walk us through how you build and manage a complex event schedule when multiple events overlap on the same weekend.
- ›What systems or tools do you use to track crew availability, shift suitability, and vehicle allocation simultaneously?
- ›How do you approach hiring and onboarding part-time crew to ensure they are trained to the required standard before being scheduled?
- ›Describe your process for sourcing and hiring in equipment at short notice when a sales order exceeds your current inventory.
- ›How do you manage transport logistics — vehicle rental, allocation, and driver coordination — across a national event schedule?
Comportementales
- ›Tell me about a time you had to resolve a major scheduling conflict with very little notice. What did you do and what was the outcome?
- ›Describe a situation where you identified an operational inefficiency and implemented a process improvement. What impact did it have?
- ›Give an example of managing a large part-time crew across multiple simultaneous events. How did you ensure quality and consistency?
- ›Tell me about a time you had to balance competing priorities from multiple stakeholders during a high-pressure event delivery period.
- ›Describe a moment when something went wrong on-site or in the warehouse. How did you respond and what did you learn?
Exemples de réponses STAR
Réponses modèles avec la méthode Situation-Tâche-Action-Résultat. À adapter à votre vécu.
Tell me about a time you had to resolve a major scheduling conflict with very little notice. What did you do and what was the outcome?
Describe a situation where you identified an operational inefficiency and implemented a process improvement. What impact did it have?