Event Delivery Manager

Location: Kirkby

Ideas | People | Trust We're BDO. An accountancy and business advisory firm, providing the advice and solutions entrepreneurial organisations need to navigate today's changing world. We work with the companies that are Britain's economic engine - ambitious, entrepreneurially-spirited and high growth businesses that fuel the economy - and directly advise the owners and management teams that lead them. We'll broaden your horizons Our Shared Service Centre team (SSC) provides essential support to a number of teams across our firm.

As well as assisting on large-scale operations, beyond the capacity of a core specialist team, they provide the unparalleled expertise we need to keep moving forward. As part of this friendly department, you'll have the chance to work on exciting projects and develop your skillset. There's real opportunity, making it a great chance to use industry knowledge and experience to solve problems in your next career step, or it can be a place to learn if you're just starting out.

If you want to work on important projects and explore your potential, we'll give you the friendly, supportive working environment to go far. We'll help you succeed Leading organisations trust us because of the quality of our advice. That quality grows from a thorough understanding of their business, and that understanding comes from working closely with them and building long-lasting relationships.

You'll be someone who is both comfortable working pro-actively and managing your own tasks, as well as confident collaborating with others and communicating regularly with senior managers, directors, and BDO's partners to help businesses effectively. You'll be encouraged to identify and draw attention to opportunities for enhancing our delivery and providing additional services to organisations we work with. The Event Delivery Manager will lead the SSC Events support function, overseeing the planning, coordination, and delivery of BDO's events programme.

The role provides strategic, operational, and people leadership, ensuring high standards, consistency, and efficiency across all event activity. Working closely with the Operations Manager, you will be responsible for the development and performance of the Events Coordinators and Events Assistants, supporting continuous improvement and excellence in event delivery. You'll also:
Lead, develop, and support the Events Coordinators and Events Assistants. Drive capability building, performance management, and resource planning. Support the Operations Manager with recruitment, onboarding, and skills development. Oversee end-to-end operational delivery across the SSC events function. Ensure compliance with BDO's brand, policies, risk frameworks, and data protection standards. Provide direction on best practice, quality control, and operational standards. Support the Operations Manager in working with EMC.

Ensure EMC adherence to service expectations, procurement processes, and delivery standards. Ensure collaborative ways of working as a partnership Contribute to the design and development of enhanced processes, tools, and systems. Identify opportunities to optimise workflows, quality, and operational efficiency. Support transition to new operational models and ways of working. Provide structured performance updates, insights, and recommendations. Work with senior stakeholders requiring specialist event input.

Ensure clear communication across the Events team regarding priorities and workloads. You'll be someone with:
Extensive experience in event management within a corporate or professional setting. Proven leadership and team-development experience. Strong operational and organisational skills. Supplier or agency management experience. Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement abilities. Good working knowledge of event technologies and management systems. Experience supporting operational change or transformation (desirable) Understanding of professional services environments (desirable) Event management qualification (desirable) At BDO, we'll help you achieve your personal goals and career ambitions, and we have programmes, resources, and frameworks that provide clarity and structure around career development.

We're in it together Mutual support and respect is one of BDO's core values and we're proud of our distinctive, people-centred culture. From informal success conversations to formal mentoring and coaching, we'll support you at every stage in your career, whatever your personal and professional needs. Our agile working framework helps us stay connected, bringing teams together where and when it counts so they can share ideas and help one another.

At BDO, you'll always have access to the people and resources you need to do your best work. We know that collaboration is the key to creating value for the companies we work with and satisfying experiences for our colleagues, so we've invested in state-of-the-art collaboration spaces in our offices. BDO's people…