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

• Complimentary access to any Red Events concert, for you and a guest.
• Work in the kind of venues most people only see from the audience: cathedrals, palaces, planetariums, historic houses.
• Work on international cultural projects.
• Private health and dental insurance.
• Workplace pension.
• 28 days' paid holiday.
• Based in London, with regular travel across England - and, as the role develops, the possibility of 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.
• Real ownership from day one: this is a role where what you decide on the day is what happens.
• Travel costs covered.
• A competitive salary, open to review.
• An ambitious, friendly and international team across ten countries.
• 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