Job Description

Description
Overview
Mishcon de Reya is one of the UK's best-known law firms and one of B2B's best known brands. From featuring in The Crown, to Gina Miller, to Boris Johnson making jokes in parliament, it is a brand that has entered wider culture and punches significantly above its weight.
Our tagline is "It's Business. But it's personal." signalling our private client heritage, our total commitment to clients and the importance of brilliant people. Within the marketing mix, events are a critical way of engaging with the outside world, enabling clients, collaborators and potential clients to feel our brand and meet our people.
The firm delivers nearly 150 high profile events every year, ranging from bespoke client dinners to guest speakers, through to major showcases and parties, all of which play an important role in the firm's business and culture. We undertake all aspects of event planning and delivery in-house, working with a trusted network of suppliers and contractors to ensure our events are of the highest possible quality and value for all attendees.
Some examples of the events we deliver include:

• Our annual
• Our annual International Women's Day initiative
• Interviews and discussions with experts, held in-person and virtually - recent guests include

, , and
Our events take place in our Holborn offices (and to a lesser extent in Oxford and Camrbidge), including our client lounge and meeting rooms, as well as in partnership with renowned venues such as the Rosewood Hotel, the Natural History Museum, and Regents College.
We also work closely with our network of partners, such as Arsenal FC, Tottenham Hotspur FC, Saracens, Southbank Centre, the Victoria and Albert Museum and the O2 to sponsor events and client hospitality.
The Events Manager is a part of the Marketing and Sales team within the Business Development Department. The Business Development team delivers key services, including Intermediary Development, Client Acquisition and Development, Insights, Events, Comms and PR, Digital Marketing, Brand and Sales.
Job descriptions talk all the time about how incredible the opportunity is, but for the right person this will be a terrific role: creative, fun and interesting events are a cornerstone of Mishcon de Reya's culture. If you are engaging, organized and creative you will have the chance to put on what we hope will be the best events of your career.
Duties and Responsibilities
Supported by the Events Executive, the Events Manager will be responsible for planning, delivering, and evaluating a variety of exciting and impactful events to enhance the firm's brand and client relationships.
As we operate a comprehensive events programme, this role will be required to regularly work events which are held outside of standard office hours.

• Work closely with the Business Development account teams to determine the event objectives for their practice areas, secure dates and deliver client events
• Working with Partners and senior legal stakeholders to advise on best approach to events, keeping a close eye on getting maximum value from the available budget
• Work with the Events and Central Business Services teams on all aspects of pre-event production, including but not limited to securing dates, managing RSVPs, negotiating with suppliers, including the catering and hospitality teams and developing event materials such as guest packs and presentations
• Managing in-person client events, including welcoming and assisting guests, managing suppliers and contractors, briefing trainees and event assistants and clear down
• Providing in-person support at events for our offices in London, Cambridge and Oxford
• Managing virtual events, including running webinars, briefing panelists, providing tech support during virtual events, and guest interactions
• Managing and curating firmwide internal gatherings, such as the summer party, Partners' conference and children's Christmas party
• Support the

with their New Thinking in conversation hybrid events with high profile speakers * Ensure effective post-event communications and monitoring, including recording attendees, updating budgets, assessing feedback and coordinating photography, films and event write ups

• Work with the Digital Marketing team to publish event-related information, including pre- and post-event content plugging into the communications, marketing and events scheduling planner, the GRID
• Work closely with the CRM team to maintain and update attendee lists using Interaction and HubSpot
• Organise external hospitality for Partners with clients when required at events such as football and rugby matches and theatre performances
• Manage firm's key entertainment and cultural partnerships, including V&A, Arsenal and the South Bank
• Maintain a proactive outlook on trends and opportunities for events, including sourcing and negotiating with suppliers
• Maintain the firm's event calendars and production schedules
• Manage stock take and event resourcing

Contributing to BD

• Strengthen the culture of "one team". Be a mentor and coach to more junior members of the team. Maintain a positive approach appropriate to a senior team member.

Being part of One Firm

• Use effectively all communication channels for the department/Firm generally e.g. website, e-bulletins, media, sponsorship, conferences, and research and industry networks.

Skills/Experience

• Strong creative skills with a track record of interesting, engaging events, both online and offline
• Proven experience in event management running your own portfolio of events, preferably within a legal or professional services environment
• Excellent communication and confidence in communicating effectively with internal and external stakeholders at all levels
• Strong stakeholder management skills, building trust and good working relationships
• Excellent attention to detail producing high quality output
• Highly conscientious and organized; able to work independently as well as in a team
• Ability to remain calm and adapt under pressure while thinking on your feet
• Strategic and creative thinking and a commercial perspective
• The ability to manage budgets and multiple events simultaneously, with energy, enthusiasm, and drive
• A dynamic, positive outlook with a flexible and proactive approach
• A team-orientated approach, with the ability to demonstrate through experience and from interview that they have a strong commercial and client-led approach to their work
• Experience using the CRM systems InterAction, Hubspot and Zoom is desirable, but not essential

Please note that this job profile is not an exhaustive list of duties but merely an outline of the key components of the role. You may be required by your line manager to take on additional responsibilities when requested.
About The Mishcon de Reya Group
The Group is an independent, international professional services business with law at its heart, employing over 1400 people with over 650 lawyers. It includes the law firm Mishcon de Reya LLP and a collection of leading consultancy businesses that complement the firm's legal services.
Mishcon de Reya LLP is based in London, Oxford, Cambridge, Singapore and Hong Kong (through its association with ). The firm services an international community of clients and provides advice in situations where the constraints of geography often do not apply. Its work is cross-border, multi-jurisdictional and complex, spanning seven core practice areas: and .
The includes consultancy businesses , (in London, Singapore and Dubai), , (in Hong Kong) and . The Group also includes , which invests in the most promising early stage legaltech companies as well as the Mishcon Academy, its in-house place of learning and platform for thought leadership.
In 2024, the Group announced its first strategic acquisition in the alternative legal services market, flexible legal resourcing business Flex Legal. It also acquired a majority stake in Somos, a global group actions management business.
We strive to create a fully diverse and inclusive workplace where all our people are empowered to fulfil their potential. We are proud of our agile working culture and are always happy to talk about flexible working.
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