The Department

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, which play an important role in the firm's business and culture.

This role supports the Events Manager in planning, delivering and evaluating exciting and impactful events, ranging from bespoke client dinners to guest speakers, through to major showcases and parties.

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 Style Gallery
• Our annual International Women's Day initiative M:Powered
• Interviews and discussions with experts, held in-person and virtually - recent guests include Mel B, Jacqueline Wilson, and Rory Stewart

Our events take place in our Holborn offices, 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.

As we operate a comprehensive events programme, you will be required to regularly work events which are held outside of standard office hours.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Work closely with the Business Development account teams to determine the event objectives for their practice areas, secure dates and deliver client events.
• 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.
• Coordinate 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.
• Coordinate virtual events, including running webinars, briefing panellists, providing tech support during virtual events, moderating sessions and guest interactions.
• Coordinate and curate firmwide internal gatherings, such as the summer party, Partners' conference and children's Christmas party.
• Support the Academy 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.
• 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.
• Coordinate stocktake and event resourcing.

Skills/Experience

• A dynamic, positive outlook with at least one year's demonstrated experience in running effective and engaging events.
• A proactive approach and demonstrated initiative.
• The ability to self-organise, think on your feet, build strong working relationships and adapt under pressure.
• Confidence in communicating effectively with internal and external stakeholders at all levels.
• Excellent attention to detail and organisational skills, with the ability to produce high quality written content.
• Experience managing your own workload and run your own portfolio of events.
• Experience working independently and as part of a team.
• A flexible approach, with the ability to remain calm and adapt under pressure.
• Experience using the CRM systems InterAction, Hubspot and Zoom is useful, 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 Mishcon de Reya Group is an independent, international professional services business with law at its heart, employing over 1450 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 Karas So LLP). 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: Corporate; Dispute Resolution; Employment; Impact; Innovation; Private; and Real Estate.

The Mishcon de Reya Group includes consultancy businesses MDR Discover, MDR Mayfair (in London, Singapore and Dubai), MDR ONE, MDRi (in Hong Kong) and MDRx. The Group also includes MDR Lab, 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.

Earlier this year, 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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