Events Associate

Overview

The Business of Fashion is seeking an enthusiastic, versatile and driven Events Associate to be part of our small, but high-functioning Events team. Comfortable working across both digital and physical event formats, you will have experience working in a fast-paced environment on multiple tasks at once and be confident delivering your work and discussing your ideas. This is an exciting opportunity to join an incredible team with the overall goal of becoming the global leader in the market for professional content and services for the fashion and beauty industries.

Who Are We?

The Business of Fashion is recognised around the world for its authoritative, analytical point of view on the global fashion and beauty industries. Our mission: to open, inform and connect the global fashion and beauty industries.

Serving members in more than 125 countries, The Business of Fashion combines independent, agenda-setting journalism with practical business advice, online learning, career-building tools and immersive events, powering positive change in fashion and the wider world.

Over time, our pioneering approach has made BoF the fashion industry’s leading source of business intelligence, and one of its most respected and influential voices, simply because you won’t find BoF’s original reporting, analysis and advice anywhere else. The Business of Beauty brings the same kind of agenda-setting coverage to the beauty and wellness space. Today, our talented team of correspondents, editors, analysts, engineers, designers, marketers and more numbers more than 100 people in London, New York, Paris and Milan.

Commitment to Diversity

BoF is committed to building a diverse workforce and we are proud to be an Equal Opportunities employer. All applicants and employees receive equal treatment regardless of race, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation, gender, age, disability, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity.

Commitment to Inclusivity

BoF is committed to building an inclusive environment where everyone can bring their authentic selves to work and reach their full potential within their roles using a growth mindset. We are committed to creating an inclusive culture for our employees globally.

Commitment to Accessibility

BoF is committed to providing an accessible environment for all applicants throughout any stage of the recruitment process, by removing any barriers to ensure we offer a process that gives all of our applicants an opportunity to shine.

We will work with you to understand what adjustments you may need in the recruitment process to ensure you are able to perform at your best and we want to create a safe space to support this. Should you require any particular adjustment to be made, please let the Talent Specialist who is managing your application know when you are contacted for an interview, so we can consider how best we can support you with this.

What We Need You To Do

As an integrated and highly organised member of the Events team, you’ll work closely with the Special Relations Senior Manager and other key stakeholders to help deliver weekly BoFLive events and larger-scale franchise events such as BoF’s quarterly digital summits, and VOICES. You’ll be responsible for successfully managing key logistical components that will deliver on the success of events.

In being successful in this role, you will:

• Support the events team in managing speaker and guest relations including speaker briefs, release forms and attendee experience.
• Work closely with the Senior Events manager on the management of speakers before, during, and after the events, including calls for presentation, submissions, proposals, speaker preparation, logistics, and overall experience.
• Support all event marketing and promotion, including writing copy and working with the editorial team to coordinate deadlines and coverage strategies.
• Co-host regular BoF Masterclass sessions with the Senior Events Manager, ensuring events are run smoothly and assets are delivered for post production in an efficient manner.
• Maintain an up-to-date content calendar with scheduled and prospective events.
• Coordinate with key internal stakeholders (e.g. Content Operations) on deliverables and deadlines.
• Support senior members of the events team by liaising with vendors and suppliers.
• Build detailed project plans, manage internal calendars and keep an up to date tracker for BoF’s various events.

Who You Are

You are an enthusiastic and incredibly organised Events Associate on the upward curve of your career. You work with a high degree of professionalism and integrity and have an operational mindset. Experience in the fashion industry is not a prerequisite, however the successful candidate will have a passion for the global fashion, beauty and luxury industries as well as thorough attention to detail and nuance. Outside of that, you will have the following skills that will help set you up for success:

• Experience working on physical events
• Excellent customer service, hospitality and problem-solving skills
• Strong organisational skills, verbal, and written communications
• High performance under pressure and a strong sense of accountability
• A ‘can-do’ attitude, flexibility and creative thinking
• Familiarity with the market-leading digital events platforms (e.g., Zoom Webinar, Bizzabo)
• MS Office, G-Suite, Typeform, Survey Monkey proficiency (or similar)

You’ll Know You’re Successful When...

• Weekly and major franchise events are delivered efficiently and effectively, all while providing a premium service to VIPs, speakers, guests, and delegates alike
• Hiccups are practically non-existent due to your high attention to detail but, if they do occur, your ‘in-event’ troubleshooting skills and ability to perform well under pressure negate issues quickly to revert to a non-impacted, highly professional experience
• Event feedback from VIPs, speakers, guests, delegates, and the BoF Team is outstanding