Overview
Salary: £40,000 per annum
Shift hours: Full Time
We are Company of Cooks, and we believe brilliant food and drink starts with brilliant people. For over 25 years, we’ve been part of some of the UK’s most loved cultural destinations, from historic palaces and botanical gardens to buzzing galleries and performance spaces, running the cafés, restaurants, bars and events that bring these incredible places to life.
Our values – Craft, Creativity and Community – guide everything we do. They shape how we work together, how we support our partners, and how we make each guest feel welcome. If you care about food, people and doing things properly, you’ll feel right at home here.
Wherever we are, we do more than serve. We bring places to life through food, service and creativity and we’re looking for a Event Planner to join our team in London.
Location: Central London Venues
Rate of Pay: £40,000 per annum
Working Pattern: Predominately Monday – Friday 9 – 5, some evening and weekend availability to oversee events.
Key Responsibilities:
- Event planner working across multiple venues
- Creative ideas sessions and implementing event plans and concepts with clients
- Liaising and negotiating with external vendors as and when required
- Handling logistics and all operational management of the event from contracted stage to completion, including booking staffing and equipment
- Updating senior management and attending regular events meetings with the client teams
- Writing and distributing post-event reports
- Responsible for the event P&L and month- end accounting and reporting
- Site visits and walk arounds
- Being an ambassador for Company of Cooks
- Seeing opportunities for event bookers to be introduced to the rest of our portfolio through eve
- Developing key client relationships, including regular communication with the lead client where appropriate
- Keeping up to date with latest trends in events and hospitality using this to influence upselling and higher spends
- A leading role in the planning and delivery of our company events, including client dinners and quarterly sector informative sessions
- Expect each day to be different and present a new challenge
About you:
- An experienced event professional with an understanding of unique venues and high-end hospitality
- An ability to manage multiple tasks and projects simultaneously
- Receptive to learning processes, systems and eager to jump straight in to new environments
- A keen eye for detail that extends to social media, with the ability to capture simple content
- An enthusiastic team player, willing to go the extra mile and exceed expectations
- A creative who also has a solid understanding of profit and loss accounts and is data-driven
What’s in it for you?
Working with Company Of Cooks has its perks! People are at the heart of everything we do, so we’ve developed a range of benefits to keep you happy.
- Personal Development and Training opportunities
- Life assurance scheme
- Pension scheme
- Holiday allowance
- Access to Healthcare Support App which includes Annual health check, Digital GP, Mental Health Consultations, Nutritional Consultations, Second Medical Opinion
- Eye care
- A great wellbeing strategy – including access to our Employee Assistance Programme, salary finance
- Family friendly support
- Regular social events and communication with our leaders
- A holiday purchase scheme
- Volunteering days
- Professional subscriptions
- Recognition schemes and people awards
- Long service awards
- Access to some great high street discount vouchers
Reference: compass/TP/2985129/200684
Location: London
