Event Manager

United Kingdom · Field-based with travel · Competitive salary

Make sure every concert happens — and happens properly.

RED EVENTS is an international creative agency that stages musical events in Europe's most extraordinary spaces — historic cathedrals, theatres, palaces, planetariums, orangeries and rooftops.

We produce hundreds of concerts every year across the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Ireland, the CIS and beyond — working with world-renowned musical brands and creating our own distinctive projects.

We are looking for an Event Manager to own how those concerts actually happen on the ground: the venues, the logistics, the people, and everything that has to work before an audience takes its seat.

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING

— Venues. Travelling across the UK for site visits and inspections. Meeting venue management in person, establishing first contact and keeping the relationship warm long after the first concert.

— Logistics. Planning and coordinating everything that has to arrive in the right place at the right time — instruments, equipment, staging, transport, accommodation. Booking where it falls to you.

— Scheduling. Building and maintaining the schedule for administrators and performers across concurrent events, and keeping it accurate when things move.

— Contractors. Sourcing, briefing and coordinating suppliers — technical, staging, transport and everything in between. Including the urgent ones: a piano that needs tuning tonight, a supplier who cancels on the morning of the concert.

— Purchasing and inventory. Procurement of what events need, and keeping track of company equipment: what we own, where it is, what condition it is in.

— People. Recruiting, onboarding and coordinating concert administrators and volunteers. Making sure everyone knows what they are doing before the doors open.

— Coordination. Working closely with the artist manager, ensemble leads and the head office — so that artistic, operational and commercial sides of an event stay aligned.

— Reporting. Post-concert reports: what worked, what did not, what the venue was like, what to change next time. This feeds directly into how we plan the following season.

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

— 3-5 years' experience in event production, venue operations, touring, hospitality or a comparable

operational role. The right to work in the United Kingdom.

— A full driving licence and willingness to travel across the country regularly.

— Availability to work evenings and weekends — that is when concerts happen.

— Genuine composure under pressure. Things go wrong on the day, and the job is to fix them without

the audience noticing.

— Confidence dealing with venue managers, suppliers and performers face to face.

— Strong organisation: several events running in parallel, each with its own moving parts.

— English at C1 or above.

A STRONG ADVANTAGE

— Experience in classical music, theatre, concerts or cultural venues.

— Existing relationships with UK venues — churches, cathedrals, theatres, historic buildings.

— Understanding of technical riders, staging and sound.

— Experience managing volunteers or casual staff.

— Experience working with touring or international artists.

— Experience with Notion or similar coordination tools.

— Daily use of AI tools (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and others).

— Additional European languages.

WHAT SUCCESS LOOK LIKE

— Concerts run without the head office having to intervene.

— Venue relationships that outlast a single booking — and venues that ask us back.

— A reliable network of contractors, including for the situations that cannot wait.

— Administrators and volunteers who arrive prepared and know their role.

— Schedules that hold, and problems flagged early rather than discovered late.

— Post-concert reports that genuinely improve the next event.

WHAT WE OFFER

— Work on international cultural projects, with more than 200 musicians performing with us monthly in the UK alone.

— Real breadth: venues across the whole of England, and — as the role develops — the possibility of working on projects beyond it.

— Direct work with international artists and world-renowned musical brands.

— Involvement in launching new concert formats, from cathedral programmes to immersive projects.

— A formal working relationship and paid holiday.

— Travel costs covered.

— A competitive salary, open to review.

— An ambitious, friendly and international team.

— Professional and career growth.

WHY RED EVENTS

We value initiative, independence and a genuine desire to keep growing. No two days are the same here: No two days are the same here: today you are inspecting a cathedral in York, tomorrow you are briefing administrators for a premiere in London, and a week later you are solving a supplier problem two hours before doors open in Brighton. If you want to see your work in a full hall and a concert that ran exactly as it should have — we'd love to meet you.

Red Events & Distribution Limited

167–169 Great Portland Street, 5th Floor, London W1W 5PF, United Kingdom

To apply: [email protected] · www.redevents.world