Senior Conference Producer

Senior Conference Producer – Defence & Security

Up to 45,000 + Bonus + Benefits

London (Hybrid)

My client is a highly professional, world leading business that specialises in the production of B2B Conferences to core business sectors including Defence, Security, Energy, Utilities and Pharmaceutical sectors. Due to expansion a role has arisen for an innovative producer to work on Defence & Security portfolios.

Key Tasks

• Research, write & produce a number of business conferences per annum.
• Produce each event to the highest quality possible, curating content for the relevant event
• Ensure data is requested and received from all invited and confirmed speakers and workshop leaders and added to the internal database daily.
• Ensure deadlines are met and production targets achieved and exceeded.
• Keep the Production Manager fully informed and aware of the progress of each conference and any problems.
• Maximise event profitability (keeping speakers’ expenses to a minimum)
• Work with Marketing to check all marketing material relevant to your conferences, advising them on how best to attract potential delegates, making suggestions of associations, societies, and journals suitable for external marketing activity. Provide a mid-production marketing brief to add any developments or refinements to the initial research brief.

Add additional value to the conference programme wherever possible.

Essential Skills, Traits and Qualifications

• Can build strong 2-day agendas reflective of industry-specific requirements and needs.
• Act at the Project Manager for each event, liaising continually with other relevant departments to ensure the smooth running of events, both in preparation on site
• The ability to manage time effectively, often balancing multiple conference responsibilities at one time.
• The ability to assimilate information quickly and effectively.
• A tenacious and enthusiastic approach
• Good time management capabilities and a can-do approach
• A commercial outlook on industry
• Excellent one to one communication and team skills