Events Project Manager - Fixed term contract

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Events Project Manager, Global Events

Your role within our Kingdom

We are seeking a skilled Events Project Manager to be responsible for managing and delivering our virtual / hybrid and live internal events, supporting all King offices across our global locations. Events include webinars, team buildings, site celebrations, employee onboarding, team meetings and offsites, seminars and conferences.

You will be working closely with your event stakeholders to plan and provide memorable, engaging and cost-effective experiences to our employees, while ensuring that all event requirements, deadlines, and budget are on track. You are an enthusiastic hands-on professional, who understands negotiation and promotion techniques, with excellent organizational and relationship building skills, able to think, plan, innovate, and execute resourcefully, required to not leave anything about an event to chance.

You should have significant experience of working on virtual / hybrid / live events and have been working actively in this area for the last 5 years.

Core responsibilities:

• Project manage from end to end multiple virtual / hybrid and live events at all levels, involving internal and external audiences, as well as senior management teams.
• Develop project plans and define project tasks, timelines and resource requirements as needed, manage day-to-day event logistics, liaise with stakeholders to ensure tasks are on track, provide direction and support to enhance cross-functional work, create event planning efficiencies and act proactively to mitigate any risk and reduce setbacks.
• Manage technical aspects of the virtual/hybrid events such as webinars, video conferences, livestreams, online team buildings and celebrations.
• Manage event budget, ensure cost control and reconcile project invoices and event final cost reporting.
• Source and manage suppliers. Review and negotiate contracts. Identify new preferred partners and cost-efficient opportunities.
• Actively manage our internal database and ensure vendors details and factsheets are filled and tracked within established timelines.
• Provide expert direction throughout each project to meet event expectations and support stakeholders with event content production and copywriting whenever required.
• Directly oversee event set up and execution of assigned events. Assisting events on-site when required.
• Inspire excellence, drive innovation, create and promote a collaborative environment. You are expected to be an exemplar of our King values and to nourish them throughout our events.

Skills to create thrills:

• Proven experience as event project manager on virtual / hybrid and live events.
• Excellent knowledge of the PM principles and main tools.
• Good understanding of virtual event technology.
• Capacity to manage high-stress situations and to handle various projects simultaneously.
• Self-starter who enjoys working in an innovative, fast-paced environment.
• Ability to be creative, flexible, and think outside the box.
• Ability to produce content for abstracts, presentations, copywriting.
• Ability to communicate clearly and concisely (written and verbal) – highly fluent in English.
• Collaborative "team player" orientation with a strong regional cultural awareness.
• Good knowledge of local event suppliers and strong negotiation skills.
• Strong working knowledge of Google tools and Microsoft Office, in particular Excel, PPT, plus Photoshop/Illustrator.
• Familiar with travel requirements and travel registration tools.
• Ability to assist physically in event set up and breakdown. Travel is required.
• Flexibility is a must. Being adaptable to meet the changing needs of the business.

About King

At King, we’re Making the World Playful. Heard of Candy Crush? We’re the creators behind it. With game studios in Stockholm, Malmö, London, Barcelona and Berlin, and offices in Dublin, San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, and Malta, we have a 20-year history of delivering some of the world’s most iconic games in the mobile gaming industry and are on a mission to level-up the little moments for our more than 200 million active monthly users. But we aren’t just crushing it with candies, we’re also behind Farm Heroes, Bubble Witch, Pet Rescue and loads of other sweet games. As a leading interactive entertainment company for the mobile world, King is part of Activision Blizzard, which was recently acquired by Microsoft.