**London (Hybrid) 2 days office****Circa £35-40,000 + Bonus + Benefits**My client is a major PLC now looking for an additional conference professional to produce commercial events, taking the overall lead on the end-to-end project management. Through a research-led approach, you will be producing events that include conferences, summits, congress, awards and webinars.You will work alongside and effectively with the editorial, marketing, operations, and sales teams to ensure the events achieve their goals and targets and meet the needs of the target audience and sponsors. You will contribute to new ideas that help further commercial growth on your events and identify new potential launch events, developing validation skills and building business cases.**Production**- Present your market research in a clear and succinct way to support the validity of the key themes, topics, title, timing, price point and location.- Establish an industry leading advisory board, where relevant, and hold an advisory board meeting to help shape the agenda- Through your detailed research, write topical and commercially viable conference programs.- Identify through research, invite and confirm high-level speakers that your target audience wants to hear from.- Identify new topics for launch and present to your manager; learn validation skills and undertake ad-hoc validation projects to further your skills-set.- Identify and propose new ideas to drive the commercial growth of your events.- To build strong external relationships with industry stakeholders, sponsors and speakers.**Copy writing**- Write comprehensive topic briefing documents born from your research which contain essential information about the key industry issues, market and event to brief all internal stakeholders (SPEX, delegate sales, marketing, editorial and operations).**Project Management**- Act as project manager ensuring the production of high quality, industry leading commercially viable events are delivered on time.- Project-manage the involvement of internal stakeholders to ensure the event meets deadlines and revenue targets.**Commercials**- Engage with and work to the event P&L.- Where overspend is necessary to ensure approved by your manager with a clear justification.- Develop a strong understanding of the core KPIs: targeting; del yield and vol; spex pipeline; lead-time; speaker quality and volume, to drive the business forward.- Build and drive the end-to-end project plan for each of the events, manage the event P&Ls, and report on performance versus key milestones and KPIs.- Attend all the content sessions and guide the event team so that the event is delivered to the expectation of the audience, speakers and sponsors**Key Commercial Skills Required**- Minimum 12-18 months commercial conference production experience- Job Info- Job Category: Conference ProductionJob Salary Range: £ 35,000 - 40,000 Per Year- Postcode:- Posted: 21-08-2023- Start Publishing: 21-08-2023- Stop Publishing: 21-09-2023
