Events Manager

Job Description

Job Title: Event Manager

Location: Derby, Bristol, or London (with regular travel to Derby or Bristol + international travel)

Working Pattern: Full time, hybrid working. Travel expected.

Why Rolls-Royce?

Rolls-Royce is one of the most enduring and iconic brands in the world and has been at the forefront of innovation for over a century. We design, build and service systems that provide critical power to customers where safety and reliability are paramount.

We are proud to be a force for progress, powering, protecting and connecting people everywhere.

We want to ensure that the excellence and ingenuity that has shaped our history continues into our future and we need people like you to come and join us on this journey.

We’ll provide an environment of caring and belonging where you can be yourself. An inclusive, innovative culture that invests in you, gives you access to an incredible breadth and depth of opportunities where you can grow your career and make a difference.

Job Summary

This role provides the opportunity to work as part of a high-energy team, working at pace, across the divisions to ensure we deliver high quality events in all corners of Rolls-Royce. It will suit someone who is self-starting, outcome-focused and highly effective working in partnership with senior leaders. Travel will be an essential part of the role.  

Reporting to the VP of Events, you will lead on planning and delivering a range of events both internal and external across our priority events portfolio. This includes major airshows, sustainability initiatives, our five major annual internal conferences and thought leadership activities. This role provides significant exposure to senior leadership and the opportunity to play a pivotal role in aligning our events to the company’s strategic goals.

The role is part of a Global Events Team within the wider Group Communications Team, which is based across the UK, US and Germany with some events having additional external agency support.   

What you’ll do

• Deliver high-profile events: Lead the planning, logistics, and content creation for events and conferences, ensuring agendas are aligned to strategic initiatives and that the delegate experience reflects our ambition as a unified organisation.

• Manage event delivery: From event and creative agencies selection to liaising with event sponsors and organisers e.g., logistics, budget management, internal and external stakeholder management. 

• Support strategic priorities: Work closely with senior stakeholders, including the Executive Team, to ensure conferences are impactful and support our goals and strategic priorities.

• Manage stakeholders and resources: Collaborate with internal teams, external agencies and senior leaders to shape and deliver exceptional events. Build strong relationships and have the confidence to challenge and guide to maintain alignment with the strategy.

• Standardise and modernise: Work on key projects to enhance our events process, partnering with External Comms, Internal Comms and the Content & Channels teams to drive innovation.

What we’re looking for

• Event leadership experience: Proven track record of managing internal and external high-profile events, ideally within a corporate or leadership-focused context.

• Communications and Marketing experience: Ability to bring our brand and story to life through high quality inspiring events, ensuring all event content fits with our visual identity guidelines and showcases our brand to it greatest effect.

• Self-starter with strategic insight: Ability to independently lead on event content and logistics while aligning outcomes to strategic objectives.

• Stakeholder management expertise: Experience working with senior leaders, with the confidence to guide, influence, and push back as needed.

• Budget management: Portfolio budget management desired – managing individual events from £400k - £2.5m

• Exceptional organisational skills: Strong project management capabilities to oversee complex events and multiple workstreams simultaneously.

• Collaborative mindset: Ability to work across internal and external teams, including communications partners and event agencies.

• Flexibility and adaptability: Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with evolving priorities.

• People Management: Directly or indirectly, experience desired, not essential.

• Travel readiness: Willingness to travel regularly between Derby, Bristol, and London as required, as well as some international travel for external events.

Why join us?

This is an exciting opportunity to take ownership of a critical role, shaping leadership conferences that are central to our engagement and development initiatives. You’ll work with a highly skilled and supportive team, have the chance to innovate and drive impactful change, and be part of a hybrid, flexible working environment.

We are an equal opportunities employer. We’re committed to developing a diverse workforce and an inclusive working environment. We believe that people from different backgrounds and cultures give us different perspectives which are crucial to innovation and problem solving. We believe the more diverse perspectives we have, the more successful we’ll be. By building a culture of caring and belonging, we give everyone who works here the opportunity to realise their full potential.

You can learn more about our global Inclusion strategy at Our people | Rolls-Royce

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