Head of Events (m/f/d)

What you will move with us:

• You are responsible for the strategic planning, organization, and implementation of journalistic and economic-political conferences, dinner formats, award ceremonies, and similar formats.
• You take over the management of all stakeholders, including editorial, internal event agency (PACE), communication, public affairs, and marketing, as well as the selection and leadership of external service providers.
• You are responsible for the budget with revenue and cost controlling, annual planning, forecast, and reporting.
• You further develop existing formats and develop new event concepts, from the idea to operational excellence.
• You create efficient synergies between print, digital, and TV for a successful 360-degree event strategy.
• You are responsible for the conception and implementation of B2B and B2C marketing measures for event promotion.
• You take over personnel leadership and resource management of the project managers in your team.

What you bring:

• You have several years of professional experience in event, conference, or project management with leadership and budget responsibility.
• You have the ability to manage complex projects, set priorities, and deliver results on time.
• You are convincing in stakeholder management and communicate confidently with internal and external partners.
• You bring a high affinity for business and political journalism topics and a feel for brand staging.
• You are creative, organized, and act with a pronounced hands-on mentality.
• Your German and English language skills are very good, both written and spoken.
• You are flexible in your working hours.

What we offer:

• Diverse health offers and support for all life situations: From sports courses (Wellhub), yoga and meditation to preventive care and professional coaching with renowned partners (PME Familienservice).
• Exceptional campus in the heart of Berlin with modern office spaces and collaboration opportunities, as well as flexible working hours and work-life balance.
• Our free food offer: in addition to a breakfast snack, a free lunch in our Kiez restaurant.
• A variety of seminar and workshop offers, language courses, conferences, and lectures from in-house experts, as well as networking events within the Axel Springer Group.
• Collaboration thrives on direct exchange – we rely on 80% office presence and 20% mobile working.
• We offer you a permanent full-time or part-time position from the earliest possible date.

PREMIUM-GRUPPE - a new journalistic alliance of POLITICO Germany, WELT, and BUSINESS INSIDER Germany. In times of political uncertainty and global upheavals, the PREMIUM-GRUPPE delivers independent and contextualizing journalism, orientation, analysis, and strong opinions. Together, its three brands comprehensively and high-quality cover politics, business, and social issues – closely intertwined and across all channels. PREMIUM-GRUPPE GmbH is a company of Axel Springer Deutschland GmbH.

Questions and answers about the application process

The most frequent questions and answers can be found in our FAQs: career.axelspringer.com/de/faq

To facilitate readability, we limit ourselves to masculine designations in the text. Nevertheless, diversity is an essential part of our corporate culture! We welcome all applications regardless of gender, nationality, ethnic and social origin, religion, worldview, disability, age, and sexual orientation and identity.

Information on the severely disabled representation at Axel Springer can be found here: career.axelspringer.com/de/ksbv

Contact person for this position (reference number REF2558R) is: Julia Lange #LI-JL1