We have an exciting new opportunity for an organised and detail-oriented Events Assistant to join our team in Salford Quays. In this role, you will provide essential support to our team, helping to coordinate, organise, and execute a variety of events. The ideal candidate will be proactive, efficient, and committed to ensuring every event runs smoothly from conception to completion. You will work collaboratively with team members, vendors, and stakeholders to deliver professional and memorable events.
Key responsibilities of the role:
Events
- Assist the events team with in-person event preparation including venue selection, maintaining delegate lists, making up name badges, printing and goody bag preparation.
- Prepare and maintain event documentation, including checklists, timelines, budgets, and attendee lists.
- Support follow up processes post event with every event including sales team data distribution, delegate follow up and internal reporting.
- Ensure compliance reviews and sign-off is carried out diligently.
- Prepare and issue CPD certificates.
- Create Purchase Order and manage invoice payments.
- Maintain regional pages for the business development team to ensure frequent tie-ins with communications and social media.
- Build strong relationships with the marketing team and work proactively with colleagues in the wider business to ensure all content published is quality checked and appropriate for publication.
- Embrace AJ Bell’s guiding principles and corporate guidelines in your way of working, ensuring communications are accurate, clear and not misleading to our customers and advisers.
- Perform post-event tasks, including data entry, feedback collection, and venue closeout
- Provide administrative support to the events team, including scheduling, correspondence, and file management
- Identify and implement process improvements to enhance event efficiency and attendee experience
Communications
- Collate event information to distribute to the communications team for preparation of event emails.
- Communicate with advisers to provide event information and follow up.
- Support and enable the business to achieve its regulatory requirements, including consumer duty.
Social Media
- Collate event information to distribute to the communications team for preparation of social media posts to use across our various media channels.
- Help to generate initiatives to growing event brands through social media accounts.
- Use of social media to strengthen relationships with third party fund groups.
Webinars
- Set-up Webinar registration pages.
- Plan and set up recordings with speakers.
- Ensure edits with our in-house designers are carried out in a timely manner.
- Monitor webinars in progress and support delegate queries.
- Keep accurate data for webinar users.
- Provide internal reporting including CRM data to the sales team.
Awards
- Assist the event manager with keeping an accurate schedule of awards.
- Work with the PR team to capture opportunities for all industry awards.
Reports
- Analysing and preparing competitor reports.
- Assisting in the production of our customer and adviser research.
What we’re looking for:
- Previous Event experience is preferred.
- Excellent time management and organisational skills.
- Full UK driving licence is highly desirable for travel to events.
- Solid experience of using the Microsoft suite.
- Experience with social media platforms – LinkedIn and Twitter on a professional basis.
- A strong desire to develop skill sets within key marketing channels and disciplines.
- Brilliant team-working skills.
- Strong communication skills.
- The ability to take the initiative and work independently where necessary.
- Strong attention to detail.
- Think creatively to help set AJ Bell events apart from competitors.
About us:
AJ Bell is one of the fastest-growing investment platform businesses in the UK offering an award-winning range of solutions that caters for everyone, from professional financial advisers to DIY investors with little to no experience. We have over 644,000 customers using our award-winning platform propositions to manage assets totalling more than £103.3 billion. Our customers trust us with their investments, and by continuously striving to make investing easier, we aim to help even more people take control of their financial futures.
Having listed on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange in December 2018, AJ Bell is now a FTSE 250 company.
Headquartered in Manchester with offices in central London and Bristol, we now have over 1,500 employees and have been named one of the UK's 'Best 100 Companies to Work For’ for six consecutive years and in 2025 named a Great Place to Work®.
At AJ Bell you can expect a friendly working environment with a strong sense of teamwork, we have a great sense of pride in what we do, and this is reflected in our guiding principles.
Our perks and benefits:
- Starting salary from £25,500 - £29,000 depending on experience.
- Starting holiday entitlement of 25 days, increasing up to 31 days with length of service and a holiday buy and sell scheme
- A choice of pension schemes with matched contributions up to 6%
- Discretionary bonus scheme
- Annual free share awards scheme
- Buy As You Earn (BAYE) Scheme
- Health Cash Plan – provided by SimplyHealth
- Discounted private healthcare scheme and dental plan
- Free on-site gym providing a wide range of free classes
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Bike loan scheme
- Sick pay+ pledge
- Enhanced maternity, paternity, and shared parental leave
- Discounted nursery fees at Kids Planet on Exchange Quay
- Loans for travel season tickets
- Death in service scheme
- Paid time off for volunteer work
- Charitable giving opportunities through salary sacrifice
- Calendar of social events, including monthly payday drinks, annual Christmas party, summer party and much more
- Free parking at Exchange Quay (Subject to availability)
- Personal development programmes built around you and your career goals, including access to personal skills workshops
- Ongoing technical training
- Professional qualification support
- Talent development programmes
- Peer recognition scheme, with rewards including restaurant and shopping vouchers or time off
- Monthly leadership breakfasts and lunches
- Casual dress code
- Access to a range of benefits from our sponsorship deals
Hybrid working:
At AJ Bell, our people are the heart of our culture. We believe in building strong connections by working together. That's why we offer a hybrid working model, where you’ll spend a minimum of 50% of your working time per month in the office. For new team members, an initial period will be full-time in the office to help you immerse yourself in our business and build valuable relationships with your colleagues.
AJ Bell is committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and all employees are empowered to bring their whole self to work.
We do not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, pregnancy, religion, physical and mental disability, marital status and any other characteristics protected by the Equality Act 2010. All decisions to hire are based on qualifications, merit and business need.
If you like the sound of the above, or just want to know more about the company and the role, we'd love to speak to you.