Events & Awards Manager (Maternity Cover)

About the Role

The Events Manager will oversee the planning and delivery of a diverse portfolio of internal and external events across the region, ensuring alignment with business objectives and brand standards. • Work across the region and units to produce the annual events schedule, with periodic updates • Manage the development and continual improvement of event delivery toolkits, processes, and platforms for efficient, high-quality delivery • Lead and manage the delivery of select high-profile and strategic events, including major exhibitions, flagship events, and campaign-linked events • Collaborate with Marketing and Communication Leads to manage delivery of exhibitions, including stand activity, speaking and sponsorship activities • Collaborate with Marketing and Communication Leads to develop and deliver own internal and external events such as roundtables, conferences, webinars, socials, and townhalls • Shape the full event experience from concept and narrative development to project management and delivery, ensuring alignment with business objectives and audience needs • Work closely with the Campaign team on event promotion, defining target audiences and delivering promotion activities • Develop and lead processes for lead-generation management, event de‑brief, and overall event impact and ROI evaluation • Manage activities connected to priority sponsorships and select institutional/member body engagements (e.g., Royal Academy of Engineering, National Railway Museum, ACE) • Oversee and provide strategic input into the region’s awards programme, including planning, project management, ceremony attendance and communications • Keep up‑to‑date with event best practice and emerging trends to ensure best‑in‑class approaches • Ensure corporate brand, visual identity, tone of voice and technical excellence standards are represented in all activities • Join Advanced Employee Networks supporting LGBTQ+, gender, race and ethnicity, disability, and parent/carer communities • Participate in social outcomes to make a difference within communities

Key Responsibilities

• ▸event toolkit
• ▸schedule management
• ▸event delivery
• ▸exhibition management
• ▸lead generation
• ▸roi evaluation

What You Bring

We are seeking an experienced events manager to manage the region’s events and awards schedule, deliver a variety of events for internal and external audiences, and support key sponsorships and institutional engagements. The successful candidate will collaborate closely with marketing teams, take briefs confidently and execute them effectively. Mott MacDonald Ltd. are not currently offering sponsorship to candidates under the Skilled Worker visa route in the UK due to changes made to the route by the UK Government in April 2024. We welcome applications from candidates eligible for alternative immigration routes that do not require sponsorship.

Requirements

• ▸events manager
• ▸sponsorships
• ▸marketing
• ▸brief execution
• ▸experienced

Benefits

At Mott MacDonald, we believe it makes business sense for you and your manager to choose how you can work most effectively to meet your client, team, and personal commitments, offering a hybrid working policy that embraces well‑being, flexibility, and trust. Mott MacDonald offers a comprehensive benefits package covering health, financial, lifestyle, family leave, learning and development, and community networks. • Private medical insurance for all UK colleagues • Health cash plan to support everyday health costs and treatments • Access to Peppy, providing free support from menopause experts for all UK colleagues • Wellbeing support through a comprehensive program available to you and your family • Flex salary to opt into a wide range of health benefits, many extendable to family • Match employee pension contributions between 4.5% and 7% • Life assurance up to 4 × basic salary, with option to increase to 6 × salary • Income protection scheme offering financial benefit and support for long‑term illness or injury • Flexible benefits including increased life assurance cover, critical illness insurance, payroll saving and will writing • Annual bonus schemes sharing the business’s financial success with colleagues • Minimum 33‑35 days holiday per year inclusive of public holidays, with ability to buy or sell leave • Holiday entitlement increases to a minimum of 35 days after 5 years’ service • Employee saving schemes and discounts from high‑street retailers • Enhanced family leave: 26 weeks paid maternity/adoption leave and two weeks paid paternity/partner leave • Shared parental leave matching maternity leave up to 24 weeks at full pay • Up to five additional days leave for significant caring responsibilities, two of which are paid • Primary annual professional institution subscription • Opportunities to enhance technical and soft skills through mentoring, formal training and self‑development

Work Environment

Hybrid