Jess Aries
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Jacqui Hawkes
Jess is a talented event organiser, she is meticulous at ensuring nothing escapes the planning and execution of large, and sometimes complicated events. She runs her events professionally and with the certainty that the smallest details are covered. Jess approaches creative project management in the same way, with an excellent innovative eye and solid and effective delivery with a fantastic digital marketing skillset.
Frances Bright
Jess has excellent event and project management skills, from ideas to execution. She is highly organised and has excellent attention to detail. Jess works well with internal and external stakeholders to cover all aspects of event management and to produce engaging events that meet their objectives and receive positive feedback from participants. It was great to have Jess as part of the team.
Jacqui Hawkes
Jess is a talented event organiser, she is meticulous at ensuring nothing escapes the planning and execution of large, and sometimes complicated events. She runs her events professionally and with the certainty that the smallest details are covered. Jess approaches creative project management in the same way, with an excellent innovative eye and solid and effective delivery with a fantastic digital marketing skillset.
Frances Bright
Jess has excellent event and project management skills, from ideas to execution. She is highly organised and has excellent attention to detail. Jess works well with internal and external stakeholders to cover all aspects of event management and to produce engaging events that meet their objectives and receive positive feedback from participants. It was great to have Jess as part of the team.
Jacqui Hawkes
Jess is a talented event organiser, she is meticulous at ensuring nothing escapes the planning and execution of large, and sometimes complicated events. She runs her events professionally and with the certainty that the smallest details are covered. Jess approaches creative project management in the same way, with an excellent innovative eye and solid and effective delivery with a fantastic digital marketing skillset.
Frances Bright
Jess has excellent event and project management skills, from ideas to execution. She is highly organised and has excellent attention to detail. Jess works well with internal and external stakeholders to cover all aspects of event management and to produce engaging events that meet their objectives and receive positive feedback from participants. It was great to have Jess as part of the team.
Jacqui Hawkes
Jess is a talented event organiser, she is meticulous at ensuring nothing escapes the planning and execution of large, and sometimes complicated events. She runs her events professionally and with the certainty that the smallest details are covered. Jess approaches creative project management in the same way, with an excellent innovative eye and solid and effective delivery with a fantastic digital marketing skillset.
Frances Bright
Jess has excellent event and project management skills, from ideas to execution. She is highly organised and has excellent attention to detail. Jess works well with internal and external stakeholders to cover all aspects of event management and to produce engaging events that meet their objectives and receive positive feedback from participants. It was great to have Jess as part of the team.
Experience
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CampaignWorks
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United Kingdom
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Marketing Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Events Manager
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Feb 2023 - Present
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HFL Education
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United Kingdom
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Education
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100 - 200 Employee
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Events Manager - Operations and Customer Service
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Nov 2022 - Feb 2023
• Manage a team of 6 Event Coordinators • Oversee the teams' event management of c. 500 virtual and face to face events per year • Ensure excellent customer service and response times on phone and via email • Venue liaison and contract negotiation • Use of virtual event platforms (MS Teams, Livestorm, AdobeConnect) • Manage a team of 6 Event Coordinators • Oversee the teams' event management of c. 500 virtual and face to face events per year • Ensure excellent customer service and response times on phone and via email • Venue liaison and contract negotiation • Use of virtual event platforms (MS Teams, Livestorm, AdobeConnect)
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SAE Media Group
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Book and Periodical Publishing
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1 - 100 Employee
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Senior Events Executive
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Mar 2022 - Nov 2022
• Full event management from conception through to completion for all Tier 1 (the largest) events in the portfolio. Events range from large conferences with exhibitions to networking drinks receptions for c. 30 – 300 keynote delegates across defence, pharmaceutical and energy sectors • International venue sourcing and contract negotiation including rates, floorplans and logistics • Tracking and reporting on delegate numbers • Complete speaker and sponsor management, once sourced through to post-event evaluation • Supplier relationship building • Creative and innovative mindset to business process development and sponsorship opportunities • Train and support the junior team members • Cross team working with sponsorship and production to ensure the events surpass their revenue targets Show less
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University of Hertfordshire
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United Kingdom
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Higher Education
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700 & Above Employee
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Senior Student Engagement Communications Coordinator
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Jul 2021 - Feb 2022
• Content gathering, writing and editing for all student communications channels. • Building on the team’s strategic plan, focusing on building a sense of pride and community for students, and enhancing the community voice. • Project management of student communications across a multi-channel communications plan from equality, diversity and inclusion campaigns to COVID-19 critical and student safety • Lead on developing and supervising the Go Herts hoodie distribution to new students across the academic year • Build strong relationships with key internal and external stakeholders, from students, academics and senior C suite members to suppliers and keynote speakers. Show less
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Buckinghamshire New University
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United Kingdom
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Higher Education
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700 & Above Employee
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Employer Engagement Officer
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Oct 2020 - Jul 2021
As Employer Engagement Officer my role was to liaise with academic colleagues and to act as the first point of contact for employers who were interested in developing a relationship with the University in the following areas: • Marketing placements/internships opportunities for students • Graduate schemes/programmes • Student success focus demonstrating a customer-oriented approach • Physical and online event delivery to provide experience and contacts for students to gain employment. Show less
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Jonas Event Technology
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United Kingdom
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Events Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Event Manager
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Aug 2019 - Mar 2020
• Account management and customer engagement • I led the management of clients’ large exhibitions envisaging and executing the full registration for their events for c. 300 to 50,000 pax across a hyper-diverse range of target audiences. • Support the delivery of customer strategy, goals and targets • Create content for, develop and deliver email, text, online and hard copy marketing for each campaign with consistent messaging • Developed and maintained strong and longstanding relationships with relevant senior stakeholders internally and externally to the organisation • Undertook risk and health and safety assessments for all events in my charge Position terminated due to COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020. Show less
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Zebra Technologies
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Israel
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Computer and Network Security
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1 - 100 Employee
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EMEA Events and Zebra Experience Centre Manager
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Apr 2019 - Jun 2019
FIXED TERM CONTRACT In this role I managed a state-of-the-art showroom, my workload included: • Internal and external customer engagement lead across EMEA for the Experience Centre • Lead in supporting, developing and delivering projects to increase visibility and customer satisfaction and enhance the customer experience. • Ensuring all internal and external messages were aligned to maintain consistency • Face to face visits, webinars, show-rounds and demos of new equipment. • Implementing procedures to monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of the Centre in relation to customer satisfaction • Communication with all level of stakeholders; staff, suppliers and customers Show less
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Women's Engineering Society
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United Kingdom
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Non-profit Organizations
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1 - 100 Employee
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Events Manager
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Jan 2018 - Dec 2018
My role at WES included: • Raising awareness of the Society’s business objectives, ethos and success through promoting key messages and services of the Society through events, projects and marketing campaigns • Event lead for all conferences, awards ceremonies and the International Women in Engineering Day (INWED) awareness campaign. • Marketing plan success - In 2018, my marketing plan achieved over 2.5 million impressions via the thunderclap campaign alone, with significant press coverage globally, and the hashtag #INWED18 trended worldwide. • Sourcing and leading business partnership with The Telegraph to coordinate the Top 50 Women in Engineering Awards 2018 • Full content creation and dissemination, including the daily social media, printed comms, monthly INWED newsletter communications • Customer engagement with international following, on all levels from CEO to lay public • High level of organisation, forward-thinking, effective time management and attention to detail Show less
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BWP Group
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United Kingdom
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Public Relations and Communications Services
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Senior Account Executive (Events)
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Aug 2017 - Nov 2017
• Full events and marketing management of a range of events from store openings, to nationwide experiential events, to seasonal activities on a mass scale for shopping centres simultaneously, as per client requirements (internationally and nationally). • Customer/Client engagement - Building strong and productive stakeholder relationships • Delivering projects proactively with added value, profitably, to strict timescales, on budget and to brief. Role ended due to redundancy • Full events and marketing management of a range of events from store openings, to nationwide experiential events, to seasonal activities on a mass scale for shopping centres simultaneously, as per client requirements (internationally and nationally). • Customer/Client engagement - Building strong and productive stakeholder relationships • Delivering projects proactively with added value, profitably, to strict timescales, on budget and to brief. Role ended due to redundancy
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Events Manager
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Nov 2016 - Jul 2017
FIXED TERM CONTRACT • Design, implementation and review of an events and communications process to be disseminated across all organisational events. Events ranged from product or publishing/book launches to conferences and debates, council meetings, roundtable events and networking receptions. • Implemented a full events review; including step by step guides for staff and organisers (internally and externally) and template marketing documents to aid in event execution inhouse and third-party partners • IT and database development • Strong supplier and stakeholder relations • Creating and managing KPIs and targets including full budget management and reporting Show less
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Royal Society of Medicine
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United Kingdom
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Education
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100 - 200 Employee
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Senior Events Coordinator
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Oct 2015 - Nov 2016
MATERNITY COVER • Develop and deliver Students’ and Trainees’ specialty Councils’ aims and objectives through events and communications • Full end to end events management for c. 20-30 events annually, from trade shows to multi-day conferences, networking receptions and awards ceremonies • Content creation, development for event promotion and success • CRM database development, maintenance and reporting • Liaison with internal and external stakeholders • Design, development, implementation, testing, creation and maintenance of new prize software (Shocklogic – Abstractlogic). This included HTML coding and training a full suite of all staff. Show less
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Geological Society of London
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United Kingdom
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Non-profit Organization Management
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Events Coordinator
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Dec 2014 - Sep 2015
MATERNITY COVER • Complete event management of The Society’s flagship, high profile and international events. • Full communications and marketing planning; design, promotion and delivery via a full range of media • Full budget/financial management for each event • Venue and contract negotiation for vendors and sponsors • Liaison with key internal and external stakeholders and high-level/VIP attendees MATERNITY COVER • Complete event management of The Society’s flagship, high profile and international events. • Full communications and marketing planning; design, promotion and delivery via a full range of media • Full budget/financial management for each event • Venue and contract negotiation for vendors and sponsors • Liaison with key internal and external stakeholders and high-level/VIP attendees
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Diabetes UK
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United Kingdom
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Non-profit Organizations
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300 - 400 Employee
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Events Coordinator
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Feb 2013 - Dec 2014
• Working with senior management and other key internal and external stakeholders to identify educational event and marketing requirements, content development and communication designs • Database integration and maintenance and reporting • Led in the complete management of delegate registration from form creation and liaison with our booking agent/s, budget management, marketing plan creation and execution, site visits, through to onsite management and event evaluation • Communications lead for general enquiries and being the ‘go to’ person regarding registration for all events. Show less
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Outgoing Ltd
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United Kingdom
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Events Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Events Assistant
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Sep 2012 - Feb 2013
This was an extremely varied and fast-paced job role – an environment that I thrive in. This role involved: • Working in every area of the events industry, from sales to production, artist liaison to presenting and training volunteers/staff. • Recruiting clients to partake in our student sporting events such as ‘BUCS Surf Champs’, ‘SportsVest’, ‘SummerBreak’ and ‘Star Surf Camps’. • Strong emphasis on customer focus and adapting approaches dependant on the customer (their needs, wants and expectations). • Liaising with suppliers, venues and artists, allowing me to build lasting professional relationships. Show less
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Education
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York St John University
BA (hons) Performance: Dance, 2:1 -
Terbell
Diploma, Event Management -
Aylesbury High School
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CPD course - Marketing, Mastering Social Media for Event Promotion course