Event Planners
The Hand Behind the Occasion
One point of contact for the client, the venue and every supplier, from the first idea to the last guest out.
About the role
LIT/ME Events is looking for event planners and producers across London: wedding planners, party planners, corporate and brand event producers, and everyone in between.
Our clients plan every kind of occasion. A birthday dinner for twelve in a private room. A wedding in a country house. A product launch, an office party, a charity gala. Some budgets run to a few thousand pounds, others to six figures, and each one deserves the same care.
On a job, you are the client's point of contact, and theirs with the venue and every supplier. Depending on the brief, that can be a guest list and a seating plan, or recces, floor plans, contracts, risk assessments and a full build in a raw space. You will know guest lists, home addresses and what people spend. None of it leaves the job.
Responsibilities
What a job asks of you varies. In practice, the work is:
- Taking an event from first brief to final invoice: concept, budget, suppliers, timings, the day itself and the wrap
- Site visits, floor plans and schedules, and the venue paperwork the event needs: licences, RAMS, insurance certificates, load-in windows
- Booking and holding suppliers to their contracts, and to their timings on the day
- Running the event on the day, across crew, talent, security and service
- Being the person the client asks, and solving what they should never have to hear about
- Reconciling the budget afterwards, chasing supplier invoices and writing down what you would do differently
Candidate profile
Titles matter less than what you have actually delivered. These are the things we actually look at:
- Experience planning or producing events in London: weddings, private parties, corporate events or launches, independently, agency side or in-house
- A portfolio or a list of events you have run, with budgets and guest numbers attached, whatever their size
- Fluent with budgets and reconciliation, and the confidence to tell a client what something really costs
- Comfortable with venue paperwork where a job calls for it: risk assessments, method statements, licensing and supplier insurance
- Able to hold several jobs at different stages without dropping any of them
- Calm on the day when a supplier has not turned up
- Availability on evenings and weekends
- Based in London, with the right to work in the UK
What we offer
Private and corporate clients come to LIT/ME for the right people for their occasion. When a brief needs a planner, we match it to the members whose work fits, and introduce you.
- A profile on the LIT/ME site, with your photograph, your own website and your social links, in front of the clients who come to us
- Introductions matched to your kind of work, whether that is weddings, private dinners, corporate events or full productions
- The client relationship stays yours: you contract with the client direct, on your own terms, and agree your fee in writing before you take anything on
- The rest of the collective within reach when a job needs them: DJs, musicians, hosts, photographers, videographers and production talent, vetted to the same standard as you
- Our directory of London's private event spaces, from private dining rooms to hotel ballrooms, with their rooms and capacities