We're looking for a Festival Operations Executive to join our team i n London as part of our Events function.

Your Role: You will ensure the seamless coordination of event logistics, supplier management, and operational execution. You will collaborate with internal teams and external partners to deliver a high-quality festival. You’ll work closely with internal teams and suppliers to elevate festival services, handle equipment orders and support the wider business.

Key Responsibilities

Maintain supplier spreadsheets, track costs, and assist with ordering equipment, including IT, AV, furniture, catering, and signage.Collaborate with existing and new suppliers to enhance services across the festival.Coordinate event logistics between London and Cannes while overseeing storage inventories.Working with the design team on creating assets, signage and other collateralResponsible for booking and briefing on-site temporary staff.Ensure all deadlines are met while fostering strong supplier relationships.Support ad hoc events and projects with the commercial operations and wider teams throughout the year.

Your Experience

Willingness to travel for site visits throughout the year and to attend the Festival in Cannes (June).Demonstrate strong planning, prioritisation, and implementation skills.Creative thinker with the ability to develop bespoke solutions.Highly motivated and capable of working autonomously in a fast-paced, high-performance environment.Strong verbal and written communication skills, ensuring clarity and professionalism.Proactive, patient, and calm, even when managing competing priorities.

If you don't meet every single requirement, we'd still encourage you to apply. At LIONS, we are committed to creating a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you are excited about this role we would still like you to apply.

Who are we?

The LIONS brand is probably most synonymous with Cannes Lions, The International Festival of Creativity, the definitive meeting place for the global creative communications and advertising community. It’s five days of inspiration, aspiration, unlimited magic and potential. The Festival has been championing creative excellence since 1954 with the goal of providing a global destination and the definitive benchmark for creativity that drives progress.

LIONS is going through an exciting time as it’s recently repositioned as The Home of Creativity, supporting those in the business of creativity at every step of their journeys with an extended portfolio of new advisory, learning and intelligence services. Our purpose is to drive progress through creativity for an incredibly diverse and talented global creative community.

You will join a team of change makers. The team’s purpose is to champion change to create the most powerful global creative community and drive growth for the brand.

LIONS is part of Ascential. Ascential takes the world’s leading brands to the heart of what’s next for their industries. We do this through our events, intelligence products and advisory services. Our 700+ people serve a global customer base from more than 100 countries in the large and growing Marketing and Financial Technology sectors. Ascential is part of the Informa Group.

Why Choose Us?

Two divisions. Three continents. One great culture - we want working for Ascential to be the best career move you’ve ever made.

Ascential is a people-powered company, and we’re committed to supporting diversity, equity and inclusion. We publish an annual DEI Report, setting out our goals and progress. We invest in Employee Groups including Able to Thrive, Ascential Pride, Black in Business and Empower Women’s Network. And our inclusive recruitment practices and early talent programmes help us to bring curious, passionate people from every walk of life into our team.

We’re committed to ensuring that the impact of our business on our environment - and the communities we operate in - is a positive one. That means making sure that each event we run is the most sustainable it’s ever been. We also default all of our pension plans to sustainable options, so that our people’s savings are invested in ways that help rather than hinder our planet.

Helping people to connect and drive progress isn’t a business-only goal. We know that the world is a better place when we lead with heart, so we support charitable causes that make a difference. We provide opportunities to give back through Volunteer Days and our charity partnership with Media Trust.

We value output, not hours. Most of our roles ask for 1-2 days a week in your nearest office. But if that’s not possible for you, let’s talk. Flexible work conversations are actively encouraged here.

Only you know what’s most important to you. That’s why we offer a benefits and wellbeing package that you can tailor to your needs. Some of these include:

25 days of holiday per year  - with an option to buy/ sell upto 5 daysPension, Life Assurance and Income ProtectionAccess to either our commission, bonus or profit share schemes, dependent on the roleFlexible benefits platform with options including Private Medical, Dental Insurance, Critical Illness and the Ascential Shares SchemeEmployee assistance programme, season ticket loans and cycle to work schemeVolunteering opportunities and charitable giving optionsLearning and development opportunities, to encourage and empower everyone to grow

We want to ensure everyone has the opportunity to perform their best when interviewing, so if you require any reasonable adjustments that would make you more comfortable during the process, please let us know so that we can do our best to support you.

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