As an Event Manager at Barclays, you will lead the creation and execution of impactful corporate events. You’ll manage events from start to finish, ensuring they reflect Barclays’ standards of quality, innovation, and professionalism. You will work closely with internal teams, vendors, clients, and speakers to deliver smooth and memorable events that enhance the Barclays brand. Your role will involve meticulous planning and execution, ensuring each event aligns with our business goals, communications strategies, and policies. You will also represent Barclays at events, maintaining a good brand presence and building meaningful client relationships.

To be successful as a Event Manager, you should have experience with:

•    Event Management: Extensive experience managing events, preferably in a corporate setting. You should be able to oversee events from logistics coordination to full execution.

•    Stakeholder Management: Proven ability to build and maintain relationships with internal and external stakeholders, ensuring clear communication throughout the planning and delivery process.

•    Attention to Detail: A meticulous approach to planning and executing events, ensuring every detail is carefully considered and meets high standards.

•    Administrative Skills: Experience managing schedules, event documentation, and logistics. You should be skilled at handling the administrative aspects of event coordination with accuracy.

•    End-to-End Event Coordination: a record of successfully managing events from start to finish, including budget management, vendor coordination, and logistics, ensuring smooth execution at every stage.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

•    Communication Skills: Able to engage stakeholders, present ideas clearly, and represent Barclays at all levels.

•    Microsoft Office Proficiency: Good knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook).

•    Project Management: Experience managing multiple projects at once. Skilled at prioritizing tasks, meeting deadlines, and using resources effectively.

•    Negotiation Skills: Ability to negotiate with vendors, suppliers, and partners for cost-effective solutions while maintaining professional relationships.

•    Organizational Skills: Highly organized. Able to manage complex logistics and competing priorities to ensure events are on time and within budget.

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

This role is based in London.

Purpose of the role

To plan, execute, manage and oversee a wide range of events and/ or hospitality initiatives, collaborating with internal stakeholders to understand business objectives and external vendors to develop creative and impactful event or hospitality experiences

Accountabilities

Development, planning and strategic oversight of events of any format, including conferences, seminars, product launches, client appreciation events, external partnership events, sponsored conference programmes, internal engagement events client entertaining through hospitality & ticket only and other marketing initiatives.End to end management all aspects of event logistics, including format proposal, all venue and vendor selection and management, production management, content development, delegate, host and speaker management and on site co-ordination of these, as needed.Management of the hospitality programme, through Barclays-owned sponsorship assets, contracted memberships and adhoc brokering for clients and internal stakeholders, where applicable.Understanding of and adherence to all applicable internal controls throughout the planning process as well as identifying and mitigating potential areas of risk.Post event or hospitality assessments to analyse the success of each initiative and identify areas for improvement.Expert advisor and partner to stakeholders and hosts to ensure event delivery meets their aims and objectives, in certain cases.Build and maintenance of industry relationships with suppliers and industry experts to stay at the forefront of event & hospitality trends, technology advances, new openings and best practices, where applicable.

Assistant Vice President Expectations

To advise and influence decision making, contribute to policy development and take responsibility for operational effectiveness. Collaborate closely with other functions/ business divisions.Lead a team performing complex tasks, using well developed professional knowledge and skills to deliver on work that impacts the whole business function. Set objectives and coach employees in pursuit of those objectives, appraisal of performance relative to objectives and determination of reward outcomesIf the position has leadership responsibilities, People Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L – Listen and be authentic, E – Energise and inspire, A – Align across the enterprise, D – Develop others.OR for an individual contributor, they will lead collaborative assignments and guide team members through structured assignments, identify the need for the inclusion of other areas of specialisation to complete assignments. They will identify new directions for assignments and/ or projects, identifying a combination of cross functional methodologies or practices to meet required outcomes.Consult on complex issues; providing advice to People Leaders to support the resolution of escalated issues.Identify ways to mitigate risk and developing new policies/procedures in support of the control and governance agenda.Take ownership for managing risk and strengthening controls in relation to the work done.Perform work that is closely related to that of other areas, which requires understanding of how areas coordinate and contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the organisation sub-function.Collaborate with other areas of work, for business aligned support areas to keep up to speed with business activity and the business strategy.Engage in complex analysis of data from multiple sources of information, internal and external sources such as procedures and practises (in other areas, teams, companies, etc).to solve problems creatively and effectively.Communicate complex information. 'Complex' information could include sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of its content or its audience.Influence or convince stakeholders to achieve outcomes.

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship – our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset – to Empower, Challenge and Drive – the operating manual for how we behave.