Events team project assistant

Closing date: 4th April 2025

Salary band: £30,000 to £34,000

Supporting the team in bringing blockbuster films to life with your creativity and attention to detail and working in the team responsible for managing multiple projects in the fast-paced world of event planning.

Premier is the UK’s leading specialist communications agency for entertainment, arts and culture. With over 20 years’ worth of specialist knowledge across film, television, publishing, gaming, classical music, performing arts, consumer brands and not for profit, Premier provides a complete creative communications solution.

We are looking for a passionate lover of events to join the Premier Events department; someone who is confident supporting on administrative and logistical tasks and working within a team to help produce a large scale event from conception including budgeting, client communications, creative ideation and on the ground management on live days.

Key tasks

Project Support

• Help produce visual presentations (powerpoint, google slides, inDesign) to illustrate ideas.
• Support on budget management and reconciliation post event; ensuring accuracy via constant updating
• Support with logistics administration such as booking couriers, updating timing documents, raising POs and ad hoc supplier research.
• Offer input into other team members’ projects - you are likely to be supporting on multiple projects simultaneously
• Assist with pitching creative ideas to clients
• Develop close supplier relations in order to understand and suggest services to clients.
  • Help maintain accurate databases listing contact details, product offerings etc
• Attend all on site, in person and online meetings relating to your projects
• Develop excellent film, entertainment, venue, cultural and event knowledge. Be responsible for updating departmental databases, booking site visits with new venues and keeping track of incoming ideas
• Seek out and monitor developments within events and entertainment in order to keep developing fresh ideas.
• Support with onsite management of temporary staff & suppliers
• Work alongside and develop good relations with other agencies working on the same film titles.
• Work at live events organised by other team members

Events team general

• Cover team members’ absences as appropriate
• Contribute to departmental brainstorms
• Support red carpet events the team are handling
• Manage office supplies, stationary and organisation of said supplies within office
• General departmental admin on an ad hoc basis

Knowledge, skills and experience

• Passion for events and interest in the entertainment sphere
• Proven project management experience
• Creative and used to thinking outside the box
• Level headed with a fast thinking ability to pivot when circumstances change
• Able to work independently and within a team
• Eager to contribute new ideas
• Personable and presentable
• An open attitude to working unusual hours during events
• We operate hybrid (dog friendly!) office/remote working and can offer flexible hours.

The employer reserves the right to close the listing and stop accepting applications sooner than the original deadline. Therefore we strongly recommend applying at the earliest opportunity.

We welcome and encourage applications from candidates who are under-represented in the creative industries.

Please state in your application that you found this role through Creative Access.