Senior Production Lead, NEXT - Reuters Events
This hybrid role will be based in our London office in Canary Wharf.
Tenacious? Persuasive and commercially minded? Can you think creatively to identify growth opportunities while balancing commercial and editorial imperatives? If so, we want to speak with you! We’re looking for a Senior Production Lead to join Reuters Events, a fast-growing team within Reuters, based in London. If you want real responsibility, have experience producing editorial events, and are passionate about building communities, this role might be for you.
Reuters NEXT is Reuters marquee live journalism franchise, that convenes global policymakers, business leaders and forward thinkers to tackle the greatest challenges facing society, business and the world at large.
We’re looking for an experienced senior conference producer to lead the growth of our flagship annual summit. You'll be responsible for end-to-end event production, including speaker recruitment, agenda management, marketing strategy, and commercial delivery. We are looking for highly motivated and experienced individuals who want to have a positive impact on the world and the critical issues shaping our future.
About the Role
As a Senior Production Lead, Reuters NEXT, you will:
* Lead the success of Reuters flagship live journalism event to deliver a market-leading product.
* Manage production timelines and deliver against revenue, attendance, and marketing targets for the entire project.
* Lead the recruitment and relationship management of A-list speakers, in collaboration with editorial colleagues.
* You will likely be asked to mentor other Conference Producers including deadline management, monitoring event performance, planning (strategic, financial and operational) and providing guidance and coaching.
* Be the central driver for event execution, working with a cross-functional team to build the full event product, including agenda, speaker faculty, audience and other elements.
About You
To be our Senior Production Lead, Reuters NEXT, you will most likely:
* Have demonstrable experience in leading major global news and media events, or events with a high level of editorial collaboration.
* Have a track record of commercial success, excellent project and time management skills, and the ability to work in changing circumstances.
* Have strong communication skills and be comfortable engaging with senior-level executives to manage speaker and sponsor relationships.
* Have managed entire projects at scale and/or grown commercial events/products from scratch.
* Be commercially driven first and foremost – you should understand the commercial drivers behind our customers decisions, as our job is to help them make smarter ones!
* Be someone with the ability to identify new and interesting business trends coupled with the drive to develop great events that senior business people can’t afford to miss.
What’s in it For You?
* Industry-Leading Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
* Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities, whether caring for family, giving back to the community, or finding time to refresh and reset. This builds upon our flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year, and hybrid model, empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance.
* Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow’s challenges and deliver real-world solutions. Our skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.
* Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for inclusion, innovation, and customer-focus. Our eleven business resource groups nurture our culture of belonging across the diverse backgrounds and experiences represented across our global footprint.
* Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.
* Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.
Do you want to be part of a team helping re-invent the way knowledge professionals work? How about a team that works every day to create a more transparent, just and inclusive future? At Thomson Reuters, we’ve been doing just that for almost 160 years. Our industry-leading products and services include highly specialized information-enabled software and tools for legal, tax, accounting and compliance professionals combined with the world’s most global news services – Reuters. We help these professionals do their jobs better, creating more time for them to focus on the things that matter most: advising, advocating, negotiating, governing and informing.
We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments that celebrate diversity and inclusion. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.
Accessibility
As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.
We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.
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