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Job Title: Meetings and Events Senior Project Manager, Sourcing and Contracting
Brand: Emota
Location: Ashby-de-la-Zouch or London or Manchester (hybrid - min of 2 days a week in closest office)
Reporting to: Senior Director of Meetings and Events
Direct reports: None
As an experienced Senior Project Manager specialising in venue sourcing and contracting for meetings and events, you will play an important role in the early planning of global projects for one of our renowned clients. From the initial brief stage, you will shape meeting and events project requirements and goals, ensuring you align the venue sourcing with client needs, budgets and event priorities.
You will lead and co-ordinate the end-to-end venue sourcing process. Working in close partnership with the Emota Venue Sourcing Team, you will deliver comprehensive briefs, manage shortlisting activity, and present well-considered recommendations to clients. Taking ownership through venue selection, you will lead negotiations, manage and finalise contracts and develop detailed budgets, before ensuring a smooth and structured handover to delivery teams.
You will manage the full hotel contracting process, working with client hotel agreements where needed. By working with hotel partners, you will agree clear, balanced terms that help minimise cancellation and attrition risk. Through early planning and ongoing communication, you will help avoid unnecessary penalties while ensuring contracts meet client and delivery needs.
You will also mentor colleagues on best-practice approaches to venue contracting, commercial negotiation, and supplier management, building capability and consistency across the team.
Your role will involve close collaboration with clients, suppliers, and our teams, and some international travel to industry events.
We offer a comprehensive benefits package to you including volunteer days, enhanced annual leave with an option to buy/sell, company pension, life and health insurance and many other benefits.
Project Management:
· Lead the project from a client, internal team, and external partner perspective, with a primary focus on early-stage planning, venue sourcing, and contracting activity
· Manage projects during the sourcing and pre-delivery phases, being an important client contact and ensuring a seamless transition to delivery teams
· Shape and manage client briefs, ensuring you define requirements, goals, and sourcing strategies and align them with budget, compliance, and delivery considerations
· Lead the end-to-end venue sourcing and contracting process, managing hotels and venues from initial feasibility through to contract negotiation and confirmation
· Work in close collaboration with the Emota Venue Sourcing Team and third-party suppliers, promoting partnerships co-ordination
· Present venue options, recommendations, and costings to clients and team members, supporting informed decision-making
· Produce and circulate clear, structured project communications (e.g. status updates, sourcing summaries, and handover documentation) to our teams and external partners
· Conduct site inspections and planning meetings with venues and suppliers, before handover to delivery teams
· Ensure all sourcing and contracting activity follows regulatory, compliance, and client-defined guidelines
· Attend selected national and international meetings, events, and industry engagements
Client Liaison and Development:
· Develop trusted relationships with clients through regular engagement
· Lead client meetings during the briefing, planning, and sourcing phases, ensuring you define goals well
· Act as a senior contact for clients during venue sourcing and contracting activity, keeping them informed of progress, options, and important decisions throughout
· Identify new opportunities for our business development to share with a Client Engagement Director
· Contribute to the preparation and presentation of event proposals, venue recommendations, and costings, ensuring agreement on client needs and commercial goals
· Lead client planning meetings focused on sourcing and venue selection
· Manage preparation of supportive meeting planning materials for client planning meetings
· Provide structured updates to clients throughout the sourcing and contracting lifecycle, ensuring transparency and confidence in planning
· Be a subject matter expert for assigned client accounts, guiding and supporting colleagues with venue strategy, contracting best practice, and client‑specific requirements
Budget Management:
· Lead the development of event budgets during the sourcing and contracting phase, using company financial systems and tools
· Lead the preparation, maintenance, and refinement of budgets from initial estimates through to handover to delivery teams
· Approve all client invoices before dispatch associated with venue sourcing phase
· Identify, measure and communicate cost avoidance and cost-saving opportunities achieved through sourcing strategy and commercial negotiation
· Ensure compliance with company and client invoicing and financial processes
· Log time for the project
Development and Management:
· Provide ongoing mentoring, coaching, and practical guidance to team members on venue sourcing, contracting, and negotiation best practice
· Be the senior escalation point for venue contracting or supplier challenges, offering guidance and solutions to support team success
· Contribute to the continuous development of sourcing processes, templates, and best‑practice guidance, supporting capability building across the wider team
General:
· Be an ambassador for the agency
· Attend and contribute at team meetings
· Collaborate with other departments to ensure the delivery of client goals
· Work towards client and our service level agreements (SLAs) for all events
· Understand, apply, and promote our mission, vision, and values
· Comply with all company and client procedures, including those relating to Health & Safety, privacy and security
· Display an understanding of compliance, including ABPI and PhRMA guidelines, when working with healthcare clients
· Comply with all client and company privacy and security protocol
· Apply a knowledge of our range of services
· To be mindful of environmental sustainability in all aspects of your role and incorporate this mindset in your approach
· Previous experience (5+ years) of managing and delivering meetings and events in a corporate setting (ideally internationally)
· A working knowledge of international cities, venues and hotels specifically in Europe and America
· Experience managing event budgets from creation through to revisions and reconciliation
· Meeting and event project management and resource skills
· A customer-centric approach to event delivery
· Proficiency in a range of event management software, project management tools and Microsoft 365 suite (including Excel and ability to maintain complex spreadsheets)
· Whilst this role has limited travel, the company will require the flexibility and desire to travel both nationally and internationally to industry and supplier events, albeit less so than a meetings and events delivery role
· Experience working with Pharmaceutical/Healthcare clients is preferable
Emota is an award-winning global events agency that creates and delivers engaging, impactful experiences.
Part of Inizio Engage XD, we are an unusually shaped communications group that creates experiences that inspire lasting change. We partner with clients to provide employee engagement, learning and training solutions, scientific engagement and capability building, all underpinned by applied behavioural science. We engage internal and external audiences through the delivery of live and virtual experiences, film, digital, and immersive content.
Don't meet every job requirement? That's okay! Our company is dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. If you're excited about this role, but your experience doesn't perfectly fit every qualification, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right person for this role or others.
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Job Title: Meetings and Events Project Manager
Brand: Emota
Location: UK: Ashby-de-la-Zouch or Manchester, (hybrid - min 2 days in nearest office a week)
Reporting to: Project Director
Direct report(s): None
Reporting into a Project Director you will manage global meetings, events and congress participation for our pharmaceutical clients. You will ensure each event is profitable, compliant and meets clients and team's expectations. You will be responsible for all logistical elements and budget management and be supported by a Project Executive who will manage the attendee participation.
This role, which includes national and international travel, will involve client partner, supplier and financial management at all stages of the delivery - pre, on-site and post event.
We offer a comprehensive benefits package to you including volunteer days, enhanced annual leave with an option to buy/sell, company pension, life and health insurance and many other benefits.
Project Management:
· Manage all venues and associated logistical arrangements including congress attendance and business centre, dinners and break-outs and housing blocks and attrition
· Manage congress sponsorship activity on behalf of your client including approval process, liaison with client contracting team and booth providers
· Manage and co-ordinate client requirements with all 3rd party suppliers/internal service providers
· Produce, manage and circulate important communications e.g. weekly status reports to all main meeting partners
· Travel on-site to conduct site inspections including planning meetings with all suppliers and for delivery of the event
· Manage post event metric reporting
Client Liaison and Development:
· Deliver first class customer service following clients goals
· Plan, attend and implement client planning meetings – face-to-face, hybrid and virtual including debriefs
Financial Management:
· Responsible for the preparation and maintenance of budgets, throughout the lifecycle of each event including approving invoices
· Ensure financial tracking of each event and conduct regular 'health checks' to ensure positive cash flow
· Accomplish scope management – to identify and charge clients for out-of-scope activities
· Track cost avoidance / saving measures
· Ensure compliance with company and client invoicing processes
· Responsible for the preparation and maintenance of congress cross charge budgets, throughout the lifecycle of each event
General:
· To work with appropriate support departments to ensure the delivery of client measurables
· Assist new starters by taking on the role of 'Buddy'
· Apply our mission, vision and values
· Comply with all company and client procedures
· Maintain good long-term relationships with hotels, venues and suppliers, to ensure the best value for money for your clients
· Be an ambassador for the agency
· To be mindful of environmental sustainability in all aspects of your role and incorporate this mindset in your approach
· Organiser with a minimum of 4 years event management delivery of corporate events
· Experience managing event budgets from initial budget, through revisions and reconciliation
· Client liaison skills
· Team motivator and professional team member
· A focus on accuracy, detail, consistency and dedicated to customer service
· Intermediate level Excel (can maintain complex spreadsheets)
· The ability and desire to travel on-site internationally
Emota is an award-winning global events agency that creates and delivers engaging, impactful experiences.
Inizio Engage XD is an unusually shaped communications group that creates experiences that inspire lasting change. We partner with clients to provide employee engagement, learning and training solutions, scientific engagement and capability building, all underpinned by applied behavioural science. We engage internal and external audiences through the delivery of live and virtual experiences, film, digital, and immersive content.
Don't meet every job requirement? That's okay! Our company is dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. If you're excited about this role, but your experience doesn't perfectly fit every qualification, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right person for this role or others.
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We’re looking for a Senior Structural Engineer who thrives on solving complex technical problems and delivering high‑quality structural design across aviation, nuclear, defence, industrial, rail, public sector, power and specialist infrastructure projects.
If you’re looking for real responsibility, technically interesting work, and the opportunity to influence how structural design is delivered, this role gives you the space to do exactly that.
This is not a role where you simply keep things moving.
You’ll have ownership, visibility and the opportunity to apply your structural expertise on projects that genuinely stretch your skills and broaden your sector exposure.
If you’re a Senior Structural Engineer looking for more challenge, more impact and more scope to lead, we’d love to hear from you.
Many of the positions within our company are subject to security clearance or security assurance levels.
The successful candidate must be able to obtain and maintain the appropriate level of security clearance or assurance level for this role, in line with client and sector requirements.
In some cases, additional nationality or residency criteria may also apply due to specific client or national security obligations.
Further information on National security clearance levels can be found on the UK Government website: (National security vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK)
About BakerHicks
We’ve been innovating in design, engineering and project delivery since 1957 and operate from 14 locations for a truly European reach. For more about our company story, see: About | BakerHicks.
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Whatever your discipline, you’ll be alongside some of the most talented people in the industry. Our network of offices are appealing, friendly and comfortable spaces, easily accessible by car or public transport. And our salary and benefits packages are some of the best in the industry.
What you get will depend on what you do, with individual performance-related rewards also on offer in addition to:
BakerHicks is an equal opportunity employer. We care about creating an inclusive atmosphere and are committed to promoting diversity and inclusion throughout.
BakerHicks is an inclusive organisation welcoming talent from all backgrounds. Applicants are assessed on the basis of personal merit and qualifications.
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We’re looking for a Principal Structural Engineer to take a key leadership role across high‑profile, technically complex projects spanning aviation, nuclear, defence, industrial, rail, public sector, power and specialist infrastructure sectors, leading multiple structural design teams. If you thrive on technical authority, guiding others, and delivering complex structural solutions with confidence, this role offers real influence, autonomy, and challenge.
Reporting to an Associate Director / Associate Engineer, you’ll play a central role in shaping and assuring structural output across some of our most visible and demanding projects.
If you’re looking for a role where your structural expertise carries real weight, your leadership shapes delivery, and your work contributes to high‑profile projects with genuine impact, this could be a strong next move.
Apply today and let’s talk.
Many of the positions within our company are subject to security clearance or security assurance levels.
The successful candidate must be able to obtain and maintain the appropriate level of security clearance or assurance level for this role, in line with client and sector requirements.
In some cases, additional nationality or residency criteria may also apply due to specific client or national security obligations.
Further information on National security clearance levels can be found on the UK Government website: (National security vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK)
About BakerHicks
We’ve been innovating in design, engineering and project delivery since 1957 and operate from 14 locations for a truly European reach. For more about our company story, see: About | BakerHicks.
BakerHicks. A Morgan Sindall Group company.
Benefits
Whatever your discipline, you’ll be alongside some of the most talented people in the industry. Our network of offices are appealing, friendly and comfortable spaces, easily accessible by car or public transport. And our salary and benefits packages are some of the best in the industry.
What you get will depend on what you do, with individual performance-related rewards also on offer in addition to:
BakerHicks is an equal opportunity employer. We care about creating an inclusive atmosphere and are committed to promoting diversity and inclusion throughout.
BakerHicks is an inclusive organisation welcoming talent from all backgrounds. Applicants are assessed on the basis of personal merit and qualifications.
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Job Title: Service Manager - Children Looked After - Knowsley
Location: Knowsley
Pay Rate: £528.44 per day
About the Role:
Are you a passionate and experienced social care professional looking to make a significant impact in the lives of children? Knowsley Council is seeking a dedicated Service Manager to lead our Children Looked After team. In this role, you will oversee the delivery of high-quality services to children in care, ensuring their safety, well-being, and development.
What will your responsibilities be?
In this role, you will lead and manage the Children Looked After team, providing guidance and support to social workers and other staff. You will ensure the delivery of effective and efficient services that meet the needs of children in care. Additionally, you will develop and implement policies and procedures to improve service delivery and outcomes for children. Monitoring and evaluating the team's performance to ensure compliance with statutory requirements and best practices is essential. You will work collaboratively with other agencies and stakeholders to provide integrated services for children and families. Managing budgets and resources effectively to ensure the sustainability of services is also a key responsibility.
Requirements:
What We Offer:
Why Liquid Personnel?
Liquid Personnel is an equal opportunities employer. Liquid Personnel Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy. * Terms and conditions apply to our bonus schemes.
Reasonable Adjustments:
If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity by contacting our team. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.
We are unable to support or accept applications from candidates who are residents within the Red or Amber list of the Code of practice for the international recruitment of health and social care personnel in England, based on the World Health Organisation (WHO) Workforce Support and Safeguard List.
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Raisin is the world's leading platform for savings and investment products. Founded in 2012, the FinTech connects consumers with banks in the EU, the UK and the US. This gives consumers better interest rates and banks a diversified form of refinancing. Our vision is to offer savings and investments without barriers and thus open up the global 160 trillion euro market.
Raisin currently employs more than 800 people from over 75 countries worldwide. Today, the platform holds over 80 billion euros in assets from more than one million investors which have accrued over 5 billion euros in returns.
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Process Knowledge Management (PKM) at Raisin owns all operational knowledge and documentation, as well as maintains and continuously improves existing processes, supporting scalable operations by integrating insights from other CS teams Q. Working closely with Process Design & Innovation, PKM provides deep area expertise during the design and rollout of new processes and takes ownership once they move into long-term use.
The team combines domain knowledge, structured process thinking and AI-supported content creation to ensure that CS at Raisin operates with clear, simple and reliable processes .
Your Responsibilities
This role sits in a growing and evolving area of the business. As the Subject Matter Expert for Investment & Pension Products (IPP) within CS. You will be expected to understand customer and agent journeys, identifying friction points, and translating complex investment and pension topics into clear, usable, and compliant processes and communication. We’re looking for someone with a background in customer experience within investment and pension products, who is a self-starter who enjoys learning, problem solving and continuous improvement.
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At Raisin, we care about each other and it is one of our top priorities to foster an open and caring environment in which everyone feels welcome and comfortable. Our culture is strongly driven by our ambitious team, which connects more than 75 different nationalities.
As part of our team, you will benefit from:
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Who we are:
Since 2009, we've been on a mission to bring sustainable fashion to everyone. Named one of Fast Company’s Brands That Matter and winning a Best Carbon Footprint award, we have big goals like being Climate Positive by 2025, Circular by 2030, and pushing the whole industry forward along the way. Our work has gotten love in Drapers and Sourcing Journal, and TIME wrote about how great our CEO, Hali Borenstein, is. Basically, we're saving the Earth and looking damn good doing it.
We're a global brand with 50+ stores (and counting) around the world, and our own sustainable factory in LA. We innovate across categories like accessories, swimwear, and sleepwear, and we reach millions of people with campaigns like this, this and this.
None of this work is possible without the incredible people behind it. We're a mission-based company that invests in an inclusive culture, so we can innovate together and ensure everyone has the space to grow, thrive, and belong.
And starting right now, we want to do all that with you.
Store Manager:
No position at Reformation is about the status quo, every team member is passionate about building a company rooted in excellence. Obsessed with customers and sustainability we use tech to create a unique interaction between our customers, employees, and the Reformation brand. The Store Manager will lead and execute all efforts required to achieve individual store goals.
Reporting to the Regional Director, essential responsibilities include but are not limited to:
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Compensation:
The wage for this full-time position is £40,000 - £70,000 per year.
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Reformation is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive team that reflects the world we want to live in. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age, or veteran status—in accordance with applicable international, federal, state, and local laws.
If you require accommodations during the application or interview process, please let us know. We’re here to ensure you have what you need to show up as your best self.
Still don’t know if you should apply? We get it—studies show that many women and individuals from historically underrepresented communities hold back from applying unless they meet every single requirement. At Reformation, we’re all about growth, not gatekeeping. If you’re passionate about the role and excited about making fashion more sustainable, we’d love to hear from you. If this role doesn’t totally excite you, consider applying to our general application.
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Established in 2004, OLIVER is the world’s first and only specialist in designing, building, and running bespoke in-house agencies and marketing ecosystems for brands. We partner with over 300 clients in 40+ countries and counting. Our unique model drives creativity and efficiency, allowing us to deliver tailored solutions that resonate deeply with audiences.
As a part of The Brandtech Group, we're at the forefront of leveraging cutting-edge AI technology to revolutionise how we create and deliver work. Our AI solutions enhance efficiency, spark creativity, and drive insightful decision-making, empowering our teams to produce innovative and impactful results.
Role: Account Manager
Location: Manchester (hybrid; on-site at client's offices min. 3 days/week)
About the role:
As Account Manager you will work closely with client's stakeholders and Oliver’s on‑site team to deliver creative and production work — with a particular focus on video content production and packaging design/artwork — ensuring work is delivered on time, on brief and on budget.
You will report to the Account Director and be a key day‑to‑day contact for the client. The account team is a cross‑functional, collaborative unit comprising account leads, producers, project managers, designers and artworkers. This on‑site team plugs into Oliver’s global capability to bring planning, creative and production expertise to the client when required.
What you will be doing:
Client management & service
Project delivery & creative production
Financial & commercial responsibility
Planning, reporting & strategy
What you need to be great in this role:
Desirable
Req ID: 16949
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Be Ambitious to succeed
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OLIVER, a part of the Brandtech Group, is an equal opportunity employer committed to creating an inclusive working environment where all employees are encouraged to reach their full potential, and individual differences are valued and respected. All applicants shall be considered for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, neurodivergence, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by local laws.
OLIVER has set ambitious environmental goals around sustainability, with science-based emissions reduction targets. Collectively, we work towards our mission, embedding sustainability into every department and through every stage of the project lifecycle.
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