Events Manager

Katkin; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 38,000 - GBP 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading pet food company in London seeks an Events Manager to enhance brand activations at various events. You'll lead a dynamic team, ensuring operational success while managing budgets and maximizing performance. This role requires strong event planning skills, a data-driven mindset, and a knack for creative solutions to connect with cat owners effectively. Enjoy a competitive salary, extensive growth opportunities, and hybrid working options in a supportive team environment.

Benefits

Competitive salary & bonus structure

33 days annual leave

Hybrid working

Macbook Pro

AXA health insurance

Qualifications

• Prior experience in event planning or experiential marketing is required.
• Must possess strong problem-solving skills and be detail-oriented.
• Ability to work dynamically in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead and optimize sales activations for brand engagement.
• Build and implement strategies to achieve growth targets.
• Manage budget, stock, and assets for events.

Skills

Event planning

Experiential marketing

Problem solving

Detail oriented

Data driven

Organised

Creative thinking

People skills

Tools

Google Sheets

Looker

Job description

KatKin's Opportunity

What we do at KatKin

For uncompromising cat parents who want the best, KatKin goes hardcore for cat health. We make the UK’s most popular fresh cat food: 100% human-quality meat, gently cooked, and frozen for freshness.

Where the competition cuts corners, catfishes customers and puts profits over health, we put cat wellbeing first. No shortcuts. No secret recipes. We’re cutting the fluff, thinking fresh and channelling hardcore love into industry-wide change. So cats live long and cat parents can love hard without compromise.

Having started as a two person team in 2019, founders Brett and Nikki have grown KatKin from a small startup to a leading pet-food industry disruptor kick-starting a new category of healthier cat food in the UK - “Fresh”. Our vet formulated, science backed recipes are now delivered on subscription to 60,000+ cats UK wide, and counting.

Why You’ll Love Working With Us

The Role

Our Direct Sales team pops up at the UKs busiest lifestyle events, railways stations and cat shows. We deliver brand activations to connect with cat parents, share our mission of changing cats’ lives for the good, and ask them to join us on their journey to better cat health.

As our Events Manager, you’ll take ownership of making this channel bigger and better, leading our sales operations team to scout, book, plan, and deliver new activations & pop ups. You will manage the team to execute our strategy; optimising our operational performance, scaling our bookings, and ensuring that the team delivers each activation on time, within budget, and to the best standard. You’ll be part of one of our fastest growing and most dynamic teams, shaking up the cat food industry for good, and making a real difference to the lives of cats and their parents.

Key ownership areas

• Build strategy- achieve our monthly growth targets by building and implementing a strategy that sets your team on a path to success.

• Manage processes- ensure that tasks are completed on time and to the best possible standard by your team.

• Empower people-develop your team to achieve their best, maintaining a proactive culture of support and transparency.

• Optimise performance- use data driven insights to track the performance of our processes, assets, and execution. Act quickly to improve where we can.

• Build productive relationships- connect with key stakeholders (event organisers, booking managers), ensuring us the best spots at the best rates.

• Scope opportunity- think big, be creative, find new opportunities to connect with cat parents where no one else has.

• Manage budget, stock and assetsacross all of our activations, keeping us on target and ready to go throughout the year.

• Get creative, collaborate with our creative team to help us stand out visually, and make sure the KatKin brand pops at every opportunity.

Who we are looking for:

• Experienced - you have a background inevent planning, experiential marketing, or similar.

• Process driven- you love building and executing an efficient plan.

• Problem solver- you jump on problems, and come up with a plan to solve them quickly.

• Detail oriented- you have high standards, and are driven to execute each event perfectly, making sure stock, logistics and cost tracking processes run smoothly.

• Organised- you’re a multi-tasker, who delivers on deadlines.

• People person- you love building relationships, and helping people thrive.

• Data driven- you have a good head for numbers, and are confident using Google Sheets / Looker to analyse data / track budget.

• Creative thinker -you spot opportunities and bring them to life.

• Dynamic- you thrive in a fast paced, evolving team environment.

• Experience working with Google Sheets or similar is a must.

• Experience in either line managing or leading a team of people is a plus.

Nice to haves

What We Offer

• Competitive salary & bonus structure

• Extensive growth opportunities in a fast paced, VC backed scale up

• No egos and a small close-knit team

• Regular team & company socials, team lunch on Mondays provided

• 33 days annual leave including bank holidays, plus your birthday off

• Hybrid working, 2 days WFH every week

• Discount on KatKin products for your cat, and £500 for new cat parents

• £800 yearly personal development budget

• Macbook Pro

• Comprehensive AXA health insurance

• Cat (and dog) friendly office

To Apply

Sound like a good fit? Please apply through the link, or send your CV (we would love a cover letter too) to [e-mail]