Senior Event Manager

Are you an experienced programme manager able to engage and drive impact with a diverse range of stakeholders, including leading retailers and their UK and ROI suppliers and labour providers, to achieve impact?

Then this could be the position for you.

We are looking for an experienced Programme Manager to manage our UK and ROI Consumer Goods programme in which you will work closely with the 10 major UK supermarkets and other large companies who sponsor the programme.

In this varied role you will provide day to day management, oversight, strategic input, helping to manage and grow the programme. You will engage and work with the established Consumer Goods steering group and their sub-contractors and suppliers, as well as engage more businesses in the programmes and build on the many opportunities to further our work. You will also deliver interactive training workshops for businesses and ensure Stronger Together continues to develop guidance and good practice in the UK and ROI, and work successfully with our partners.

You will work from home, line manage two of our Programme Co-ordinators, and will join a friendly, supportive, and committed global team, and contribute towards creating systemic change.

Who you are:

• An experienced project manager with an in-depth understanding of the consumer goods industry and experience managing senior corporate sponsor relations
• A professional who has worked with or within the consumer goods sector on responsible business behaviour and with a good knowledge/understanding of modern slavery, responsible recruitment, and ethical labour practices
• A great organiser, with the ability to set and meet demanding targets and deadlines, and to hold others accountable to those
• An excellent trainer, with experience of preparing and delivering training to businesses • Someone with an interest in being involved in operations as well as strategic thinking
• An excellent communicator, with experience of developing and building new successful working relationships with a range of stakeholders, as well as confidence in representing the programme professionally at a variety of events
• Someone with experience of measuring and demonstrating impact
• A motivated and enthusiastic worker, able to work independently and with remote colleagues/stakeholders, delivering day-to-day workload with minimal supervision
• Someone with a good eye for detail, whilst retaining sight of the bigger picture
• An individual with permission to work in the UK.

The role is varied with opportunity to support strategy development and plans across the UK and ROI, implement them and try out new ideas. You will work remotely, but in close cooperation with the Co-CEOs, other Programme Managers and the rest of our team.

Who we are: We are an impact driven, not for profit organisation that provides businesses with practical training, resources, business services and collaborative programmes. We work across three continents and within multiple sectors with many organisations to achieve our wider vision of a world where all workers are recruited responsibly and have fair work, free from exploitation.

What we can offer you

• A permanent, full-time or 0.8 FTE contract with an initial six-month probationary period
• Competitive salary (salary band £39,861-51,248 gross annually for full-time, pro rata if part-time) and enhanced employee benefits
• Being part of a growing, innovative, and exciting not for profit organisation
• A friendly global team which is passionate about and committed to fair work, responsible recruitment and systemic change
• Flexible and family-friendly working arrangements
• UK-home-based, with regular in person and online meetings and social team gatherings.

How to apply

Please send us your CV and motivation letter (max. 2 pages of A4) outlining the skills and experience you have that meet the requirements of this role as outlined.

Timeline

• Application deadline: 23:30 – Sunday 7th July
• Shortlisting: w/c 8th July
• First interviews: w/c 15th July