Brand Director / Senior Conference Producer - Global Events Company

Job Sector: Conference + Content Production / Event Management

Contract Type: Permanent

Location: London (2 days a week) + Working from Home

Salary: Up to £50k basic plus bonus

Are you a successful conference producer, but would like to have more ownership of your products and commercials in a dynamic, ambitious and fast-paced company? Are you currently evaluating your next step in your Conference Production career, and interested in a wider remit and influence including ownership and strategic direction of a portfolio of events, and gaining a more holistic understanding of running a business? Want to work for an extremely fast-growing events business? If yes, please read on.

The Company: A large, hyper-growth events business operating across a variety of B2B markets, producing many industry-leading conferences. They have a collaborative and entrepreneurial culture where success is rewarded financially and with opportunities for promotion.

The Role of Brand Director: With 3+ years of B2B conference production experience, our client will provide a robust Brand Director Qualification training programme as part of your induction and onboarding to embed their core principles of Validation and Production Lifecycle Management, Portfolio and People Management. This holistic training programme includes modules such as Topic Generation, Validation, Product Growth Strategy, Leadership, and P&L financials.

Responsibilities:

• Drive the overall profitability of P&L(s) within the business, generating new launches and growing established repeat events.
• Set strategic direction on both portfolio and product level through established assets and identifying launch opportunities within your area with robust validation and analysis.
• Accountable for delivering the yearly commercial result and budgeted product load.
• High level of tactical event execution with strategic direction.
• Robust seed idea generation and validation within the company's process framework to create more product opportunities.
• Strengthen existing portfolio or organically create your own to maximize market penetration.
• Potential people responsibilities based on experience.

Requirements for this Brand Director position:

• 3+ years B2B conference production experience, with proven production skills across a variety of products, including launch and repeat events.
• Understanding of high-quality production execution, advanced time management, and organizational skills.
• Demonstrable leadership and advanced project management skills to influence commercial results of your products.
• Methodological approach such as data-driven analysis to devise growth strategy for repeat events.
• Experience of strategic portfolio development and/or new event idea validation with commercial viability.
• Excellent stakeholder management with communication and persuasion skills.
• A natural entrepreneur who is interested in combining research and advanced business skills to have true ownership of your conference products’ financials and commercial trajectory.

If you think that you could be the Brand Director that our client is looking for, please apply!