As a senior member of the Creative and Marketing Team, you'll play an essential role in coordinating and delivering high-impact events that showcase our brand and services. This is a hands-on role where you'll be involved in every step of the event process—from concept and planning through to execution and follow-up—ensuring that all events are flawlessly delivered and aligned with both our brand values and commercial objectives.
Working as the core events lead within a multi-skilled team, you'll use your exceptional communication skills to ensure that events are seamlessly integrated into the marketing and commercial strategies. You'll proactively keep key stakeholders up to date throughout the entire event process, ensuring clear communication at every stage. Your excellent organisational skills will help you manage logistics, oversee budgets, and ensure that every event runs smoothly. A key focus will be on tracking and optimising ROI, ensuring that every event delivers measurable results that support business growth. With your strategic mindset and deep understanding of the events landscape, you'll also bring fresh ideas to enhance audience engagement, drive brand activation, and support our sustainability goals.
This is an exciting and fast-paced role, perfect for someone who thrives on creating memorable experiences and enjoys getting hands-on with logistics to ensure events are delivered on time, on budget, and to the highest standard.
ABOUT YOU You have excellent interpersonal and communication skills, able to build strong relationships with internal stakeholders and external suppliers alike, at all levels of seniority. You're highly organised and thrive in a fast-paced environment, with a strong attention to detail. You're a supportive team player who, while self-motivated and independent, enjoys collaborating with others. You're hands-on and comfortable managing the end-to-end logistics of in-house events, as well as working with agencies and external suppliers. You have experience in budget management and project management, ensuring events are delivered within scope, on budget, and with measurable ROI. You understand how events fit into the broader marketing strategy and can ensure creative and communication alignment. You're passionate about sustainability and keen to suggest new ideas for incorporating eco-friendly practices into event planning. You have a commercial mindset, with fresh ideas for driving audience engagement, improving data capture, and enhancing brand activation at events. QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED At least 5 years' experience in event production, ideally in the yachting or luxury sector Excellent interpersonal and communication skills Strong organisational and logistical skills, with the ability to manage events end-to-end Experience using Microsoft Excel and handling (and reporting on) large budgets Results focused with an emphasis on clear ROI tracking Knowledge of Salesforce or other CRM platforms is a plus Basic knowledge of InDesign and Photoshop is a plus Willingness to travel for events as required WHY Y.CO? Y.CO is a professional, trusted and ethical business and brand, with high doses of positivity, energy and fun. Y.CO is committed to working with greater purpose, lighter footprints and within a stronger community. For Y.CO sustainability is about the future. A future that's bright and a future that's kind. It's about having respect for each other and the planet. Our company values are naturally aligned with the new generation of Clients, crew and professionals engaging with the superyacht industry positioning Y.CO as THE company that can best serve their needs. Working with Y.CO is a boutique and personalized experience for our clients and team alike, we have an unwavering commitment to investing in long term relationships over short term financial gains. Y.CO is a privately owned founder led business. No distractions and no conflict of interests to get in the way of quick and bold decision making throughout the business. Opportunity not hierarchy. We have an 'all hands-on deck' approach that comes from the very top to ensure everyone across the business is well supported and their goals are achieved. The best is yet to come; there is long term opportunity for team members to grow with the business with the launch of Y.CO's exciting expansion plans in the US and Pacific. At Y.CO we understand that to thrive, it requires a team spirit of merit, passion, diversity, inclusion, and equity. As an equal opportunities employer, we prioritize accountability and support each other in achieving excellence and continuous improvement, fostering a culture of trust and integrity. We believe that accountability, creativity and energy are the driving forces behind our success. By embracing diverse perspectives and encouraging innovative thinking, we cultivate a culture of problem-solving and forward-thinking. That's why we select only on the basis of skills and welcome people from every background, religion, disability, gender identity, ethnicity, and sexuality. We are committed to providing an inclusive environment where everyone feels valued and respected, promoting a workplace where diverse perspectives are celebrated and all individuals have the opportunity to reach their fullest potential. At Y.CO, we believe that our differences make us unique and stronger and we are dedicated to building a culture where everyone can succeed.
Job Type: Full-time
Application Question(s):
What is your earliest start date? What are your monthly salary expectations? (gross) Work Location: In person
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