Events Manager

Xero is a beautiful, easy-to-use platform that helps small businesses and their accounting and bookkeeping advisors grow and thrive. 

At Xero, our purpose is to make life better for people in small business, their advisors, and communities around the world. This purpose sits at the centre of everything we do. We support our people to do the best work of their lives so that they can help small businesses succeed through better tools, information and connections. Because when they succeed they make a difference, and when millions of small businesses are making a difference, the world is a more beautiful place.

The Events Manager (UK) is an individual contributor within the UK events team, working closely with stakeholders across the business to plan, execute and manage our event experiences. This role is part of a small team who will share responsibility for our portfolio of events, including Xerocon, Xero Roadshow, Xero Awards, Xero Cyclosportive, as well as our presence at external industry events. An important aspect of this role will be maintaining a high degree of organisation, communication and project management skills, as well as establishing and maintaining good working relationships across a wide range of teams across the organisation.

• End to end event planning and management across Xero flagship events such as Xerocon, Xero Roadshow and the Xero Awards, as well as our sponsorship or participation at external industry events.
• Budget management, maintaining project plans and run-sheets, online event listings and registration requirements, managing the use of event technology and providing on the ground event management support.
• Own individual event objectives, including tracking and post-implementation reviews with key learnings, ROI, attendee engagement, etc.
•  Own individual event briefs for internal and external creative and agency teams, working in partnership with relevant marketing and business stakeholders to ensure our event presence is adequately resourced, on brand and delivered to a high standard.
• Maintain strong and constructive relationships with key stakeholders across the business to ensure successful outcomes are delivered.
• Communicating updates with relevant stakeholders and the business more broadly, as well as managing and facilitating staff briefings and retro meetings. 
• Contribute to Xero’s event strategy more broadly, sharing insights and learnings, and ideating around possible solutions for key business objectives

• Extensive project management skills and attention to detail.
• Excellent communication and writing skills
• Demonstrated event management/marketing experience
• Proven experience in the delivery of timely and outcome-focused events/campaigns
• Ability to analyse, interpret and or compare results and identify key learnings

Why Xero?

Offering very generous paid leave to use however you’d like (plus statutory holidays!), dedicated paid leave to care for your physical and mental wellbeing as well as an Employee Assistance Program to access mental health care for you and your family, private medical insurance, gym passes, employee resource groups, 26 weeks of paid parental leave for primary caregivers, an Employee Share Plan, beautiful offices, flexible working, and many other benefits that reflect our human value, you’ll do the best work of your life at Xero.

Research has shown that women and underrepresented groups are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single competency or experience . If you are excited about this role, but your past experience doesn't align perfectly, we encourage you to apply anyway. You could be just the right person for this role and Xero. If you have any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at time of application and throughout the interview process.