CarGurus is hiring a
Events & Community Manager

Summary

Join PistonHeads, the UK’s largest motoring community, as a creative and passionate Events and Community Manager to fuel our vibrant community, both online and offline.

Requirements

• 3+ years’ experience working in a marketing or business development role
• Proven event organisation and delivery
• Good knowledge of luxury and performance cars
• Experience with copywriting to a very high standard
• Self-driven, creative and analytical
• Ability to travel and work weekends occasionally
• Experience using a social scheduling tool, such as Hootsuite or Buffer
• Experience using analytics tools such as Google Analytics
• Experience using an email marketing platform, such as Marketo, Sailthru or Mailchimp

Responsibilities

• Manage, nurture and grow our event portfolio and event partnerships
• Pitching our events to secure exciting new venues around the UK
• Selling exhibition space and sponsorship
• Engage with our community online, curating discussions and promoting events in our forums
• Manage budgets including billing exhibitors and balancing expenditure
• Event operations including risk assessments and managing procurement for suppliers, contractors and talent
• Travel around the UK and to France for the set up and delivery of our events
• After each event, you’ll gather feedback from attendees and forum discussions to refine and enhance future events
• Develop social media and content strategies to promote events and encourage engagement
• Write compelling articles to promote events and review them afterwards
• Build and nurture relationships with the PistonHeads community at every event, online and offline
• Build, schedule and report on email campaigns
• Grow brand awareness across multiple platforms