Events Manager

Role: Events Manager

Contract Type: Full Time, working 7.5 hours per day, 5 days per week

Location: Hybrid, working 3 days a week in our offices based in Old Street, London

About Us

Nothing is clearer to us than the belief that every woman should include strength training in her life to enhance both physical and mental well-being. It's about building strong bodies and even stronger minds, asserting their right to take up space in the gym, and allowing the spotlight to shine bright on their progress.

To us, strength training represents a determined, goal-oriented mindset and an unwavering work ethic. We don't wait for success; we create it through hard work and determination. When faced with challenges, we don't back down; instead, we break through barriers, recognising that true progress lies on the other side.

These are the pillars that form the foundation of Oner Active. We consistently challenge ourselves to create innovative and impactful products, so that you can perform better. With our range of products and innovative approach, we provide a wide variety of colours to ensure that all skin tones genuinely radiate in Oner.

Our Purpose and Mission

We are on a mission to unite and empower women to be the strongest version of themselves through strength training. We want to inspire women to take centre stage in the gym by promoting strength training, which underpins all movement and sport, as a healthy foundation in life. 

Our Benefits

• 25 days annual leave + bank holidays and work from anywhere up to 4 weeks a year
• 5% employer match salary sacrifice pension scheme
• Generous Oner Active discount plus regular office sample sales
• Free Evolve You subscription
• Private Healthcare with Vitality including optical and dental 
• Monthly wellness allowance and team workout classes
• Start-up culture - the chance to learn and make a real impact
• Great employee events like our Summer party, Christmas party and team away days
• Healthy office snacks and fruit (plus a chocolate cupboard for a sweet treat for the balance)
• Dog friendly office

You’ll be responsible for:

• Event planning, management and execution. 
• Managing, maintaining, and building upon all relationships with existing and potential suppliers and agencies.
• Working closely with the sponsorship team to organise athlete events globally and build strong relationships with the athletes, teammates and affiliates.
• Ensuring all events are branded, working closely with the inhouse designers and coming up with goody bags ideas which contain branded gifts.
• Ordering all catering for events and reaching out to brands for collaborations.
• Organising brand activations, pop ups and other special brand moment events for sign off by Head of Campaigns and Events.
• Coordination of event related bookings: venues, production, travel, catering, accommodation etc. 
• Negotiating and planning events in budget simultaneously.
• Elevating the brand perception and further improve our reputation and always conveying the Oner TOV.
• Project management of the event portfolio from conception to on-site delivery and post-event analysis.
• Leading project meetings, identifying roles and responsibilities and communicating updates and deadlines effectively with internal and external stakeholders and working as the central communication point.
• Creating briefing documents and have accountability for the management of all timelines and critical paths.
• Brainstorming event concepts for brand moments, cultural moments and collection drops.
• Compiling a central database of event suppliers and venues, maintaining and building relationships with external suppliers and third-party companies.
• Researching and developing proposals for new special event opportunities for consideration.
• Carrying out any other duties as may reasonably be required and be willing to work outside office hours and weekends on occasions.
• Liaising with all external suppliers and internal stakeholder departments as to any requirements needed to execute the event.

You’ll need to have:

• 4-5+ years’ experience in event management, preferably in the fitness industry.
• Broad marketing knowledge, experience and skills.
• Creativity and confidence to come up with new ideas and the drive to bring them to life.
• Ability to engage and proactively seek partnerships to continually drive brand awareness, footfall and maximize brand opportunities.
• A passion for the fashion and fitness industry (preferably)
• Resilience under pressure and the ability to maintain a high level of accuracy and high standards when working to deadlines.
• Overarching understand of events strategy, ideation and concepting
• Strong negotiation skills and attention to detail and experience managing yearly budgets
• A highly organised and detail-oriented mindset.
• Passion to take on a multi-faceted and varied role, that encompasses research, creative ideation, curation, and the production of events.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment.
• Strong team player attitude, prepared to roll up your sleeves and get stuck in as a part of the team to get time-bound work done.

Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion

At Oner Active it’s about embracing diversity and empowering every individual to reach their full potential. We are committed to creating an environment where everyone feels valued, supported, and able to thrive.

We welcome applications from all backgrounds and are dedicated to ensuring that everyone has equal access to opportunities during the recruitment process. If you require any reasonable adjustments or additional support, we encourage you to reach out to our Recruitment team — we’re here to support you every step of the way.