Events & Experience Executive, Alderley Edge, Cheshire

Contract: Permanent

Salary: £26-29,000 per annum

Hours Per Week: Full-time. 40 hours per week

Working Patterns: Monday – Friday working 4 days in the office and 1 day from home if desired. The role may require flexibility in working hours, including occasional weekends and be onsite during peak operational periods.

Vita Group is a developer and operator of high-quality, intelligent residential communities that are redefining renting, co-living, and urban life.

Through its innovative family of brands, Vita Group designs, develops, and operates tailored living environments that enable people to thrive at different stages of their lives.

Vita Student delivers inspirational spaces and experiences to enhance university life. House of Social reimagines shared student living, blending accommodation with vibrant food, drink, and music destinations. Uhaus brings modern, city-centre build-to-rent living for professionals, while Union redefines co-living with flexibility and community at its core.

Our Events & Experience Executive

Collaborates with the Events & Partnerships Manager, Operations team and Creative team to deliver and develop our market-leading events and experience programme, including arranging, organising, scheduling and briefing out the programme of activities, promoting the events alongside the residence team, attending events at least once per month and ensuring that the best content is captured from the programme to use as part of the wider marketing strategy.

• Work closely with the Events & Partnerships Manager to create, schedule and deliver a surprise and delight programme for our residents, with a particular focus on celebrating the diverse cultural community in our buildings.

• Liaise & support with partnership activity across of range of partners within beauty, food & beverage, fashion, fitness, travel and more. This will involve supporting with the building and maintaining of relationships with luxury brands at the apex of their industry.

• Identify opportunities to maximise the value of our partnerships through content and reach via other marketing channels.

• Work with with marketing colleagues to gather and create content to demonstrate the value of the events programme to customers across our marketing channels, before they even decide to live with us.

• Produce regular promotional assets to drive the programme including in-building events, board copy and digital TV screens.

• Maintain our website event listings with event details, copy and imagery.

• Create assets to promote events through digital and physical touchpoints across printed promotions, digital screens, email and social media.

• Deliver supporting events documents including briefings, risk assessments and allergens.

• Work alongside colleagues to track and audit the events programme performance.

• Assist with the delivery of the Social Media Share2Win Competition prize programme – logistics, packing and courier booking.

• Finance and administration – Raise purchase orders, updating budget tracking documents and processing invoices with event suppliers.

Assisting marketing colleagues with other ad hoc tasks such as:

• Write marketing content.

• Contribute to social media platforms like Instagram, Tik Tok, Facebook and Twitter.

• Analyse and report on marketing effectiveness.

• Edit and share content with other internal teams.

• Maintain good relationships with key stakeholders within and outside of the business.

Who We’re Looking For

The ideal candidate will have a minimum of 2 years’ experience working in a marketing environment and demonstrate a diligent and enthusiastic approach to their work, with an understanding of consumer needs and trends.

 Professional Experience / Attributes

• Creative and proactive individual with a desire to play an active role in a growing team within a dynamic and fast-paced working environment.

• Excellent planning and organisational skills.

• Attention to detail and an eye for the “latest thing”.

• Customer-focused background, with a confident and articulate communication style, demonstrating professionalism and clarity in an office settings.

• Proficient in IT and online web-based tools, with intermediate skills in Microsoft 365, particularly Outlook and Excel.

• Strong prioritisation and organisational skills, and a responsible approach to handling confidential information.

Personal Characteristics

• Have a high standard of English (written and oral).

• Be flexible and adaptable when plans or policies change, often at short notice.

• A strong sense of ownership and a determination to turn challenges into results.

• Have strong risk-awareness and intuition.

• Emotional intelligence — able to read tone, context, and non-verbal cues to guide conversations and decisions.

• Enthusiasm, a flexible approach to working, and a willingness to go the extra mile when required.

• An excellent listener and all-round brilliant communicator.

• Passionate about connecting with and understanding current or prospective customers.

• Resilient, organised, with a can-do attitude.

Why work for us…….

We’re an ambitious business with big plans, powered by teams who care about doing great work and doing it well together. We aim to create an environment where people feel supported, challenged, and trusted with fair, competitive rewards and a culture that helps people perform at their best.

Our head office is designed with people in mind: a modern workspace set in green surroundings, with an onsite restaurant and padel court. Working at Vita means being part of a team that looks out for one another, with thoughtful perks, good food, regular social moments, and wellbeing support that make Vita a place people choose to stay and grow. 

• 22 days’ holiday, increasing by one day per year of service up to 25 days + Christmas shutdown + bank holidays

• Workplace pension (statutory contributions)

• Free breakfast and lunch provided in our onsite restaurant

• Free onsite parking and 5-minute walk from train station and bus stops

• Onsite padel court

• Perkbox app -  access to access to hundreds of exclusive retail offers and discounts, health and wellbeing content, learning courses and much more

• Vivup Employee Assistance Programme

• Discounts at House of Social Foodhall

• Complimentary tickets to Stockport County FC

• A year-round calendar of social and wellbeing events
  

Important

Unfortunately, we are unable to offer Right to Work Sponsorship. Therefore, if you do require a company to sponsor your Right to Work in the UK, we will not be able to progress your application further.

All offers of employment are subject to satisfactory pre-employment checks which will include Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) checks.