Event Manager
Red Events & Distribution Ltd · London, England ·
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 To apply: hr@redevents.world · www.redevents.world