Senior Conference Producer – Large Scale Events
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US & Europe
Hybrid London (2-3 days per week office)
US & European Travel
My client is globally renowned for producing some of the highest level & cutting-edge large-scale events across niche b2b sectors including Tech in Retail, Digital Travel & Ecommerce, due to growth a role has opened up for an experience producer to work on 3-4 market leading events with the opportunity for international travel in the US and EU. This includes researching, writing the agenda and recruiting speakers, leading a passionate event team to deliver on the event strategy – marketing, delegate sales, sponsorship, event management, and executing the event onsite.
Key Responsibilities:
* Conducting in-depth telephone/video/face-to-face research interviews to identify industry trends to support the development of a commercial agenda and event strategy
* Writing compelling agenda and marketing collateral sales copy to drive delegate and sponsorship interest and bookings
* Building your own senior advisory board network on each event to vet and improve your agenda
* Recruiting senior influential industry leaders at top companies as speakers to attract high quality delegates and key sponsors
* Coordinating between your sponsorship, marketing, delegate sales, and event management team members to deliver on key event goals
* Developing and executing commercial growth plans to grow your event year-on-year
Characteristics & Skills:
This role could be a great fit for you if you have a strong academic background and have thrived in a commercial -sales, recruitment, or conference production role, and have strong:
* Research skills- desktop and interviewing phone/video/face-to-face
* Communication skills- spoken and written for internal and external contact
* Sales copy skills- for writing the agenda and marketing collateral
* Sales and relationship management skills – to research with new and existing contacts and confirming them as advisors and/or speakers
* Organisational skills – manage multiple production projects and effectively prioritise key tasks to meet deadlines
* Attention to detail- proof agenda and marketing collateral- including websites/brochures/emails
* Team work and leadership – to coordinate between marketing, delegate sales, sponsorship and event management teams to deliver on key event goals
* Solution focused ‘can-do’ attitude- to address key internal and external challenges and keep projects moving