Role: Venue Manager
Salary: 36,750-42,000 a year plus benefits
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours of Work: 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Sunday. You’ll need to be available to work event nights, weekends and bank holidays.
Location: The O2 – The O2, Peninsula Square, London SE10 0DX
Closing Date: Sunday 18th December 2022
Full Description
Our O2 Venue teams wow our customers on event nights. As Venue Manager at The O2 you will ensure the smooth running of events from the planning stage to when our last guests leave the tent.
This is a great opportunity to join a world-class venue, planning a full range of events within The O2 Arena and all external spaces.
You’ll work closely with Event Promoters and deliver all their contractual entitlements; manage the event planning process, adhering to licensing stipulations and house policies and procedures; and carry out the role of Duty Front of House Manager on allocated events, to provide exceptional levels of service.
Alongside all Venue Managers, you assist with the performance management of everyone who works on an event night, from Front of House stewarding and security providers to Fire Officers and Medical staff.
You’ll deliver training sessions with all Front of House staff as well as internal departments regarding emergency procedures, general operational duties, including orientation.
We’re looking for someone with relevant event management experience of medium to large scale events, gained in a variety of, or comparable venues. You’ll have experience of entertainment, stadia, and arena security and crowd management and liaising with the police and professional bodies.
Commercially astute with sound financial management skills; you’ll be able to demonstrate a sound health and safety management knowledge.
You’ll need to be resilient with the ability to demonstrate consistent decision-making skills under pressure in a busy environment.
You’ll want to raise the bar in this role and be solutions focussed; we encourage new ideas and innovation and value everyone’s opinion.
We’ll give you a thorough induction on how we work at AEG. Our induction and onboarding programme is a great way to meet other new starters and to learn about our culture and values. We will give you training in our systems, policies and procedures so that you’ll be set up for success.
Where: You’ll be based at The O2, Peninsula Square, London SE10 0DX. We offer flexible start and end times and work remotely once a week. You will need to be able work event shifts which include weekends, evenings and bank holidays.
So why apply?
AEG is an inclusive organisation where we value everybody’s contribution. We empower and trust our people to do the right thing. We go the extra mile, for our customers and each other, every time. We are always open to new ideas and respect all opinions. We support and bring out the best in each other. We really value our people and inspire them to be the best in class, always!
You can find out about our Vision and Values here and our Employee Network Groups here.
Our commitment to inclusion
We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workforce. We believe in equality of opportunity for all and our approach to recruitment and selection is fair, open and based purely on merit. Applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships. If you require reasonable adjustments in any recruitment process with us, please make us aware.