Event Producer

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Location: London (Hybrid – 1–2 days per week in the office)

Salary: £30k - £35k + 20% disc annual bonus

Contract Type: Permanent, Full-Time

What We Can Offer You: Hybrid Working, Performance-Related Bonus, Life Assurance, Vitality Private Healthcare, Additional Holiday Purchase, Health Cash Plan, Subsidised Gym Memberships, Cycle to Work scheme, Discount Vouchers and Access to Wellbeing Resources!

Wilmington Events is a specialist provider of events in the global Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) sector. Following three years of double-digit growth, successful launches and portfolio expansion, we are looking for an experienced Event Producer to help scale existing events, launch new formats and drive further commercial growth across our insurance and compliance portfolios.

In this role, you will co-produce a portfolio of insurance events and lead the development of a new series of virtual conferences for the International Compliance Association (ICA). You will be responsible for validating new event ideas, producing compelling agendas, recruiting high-calibre speakers and judges, and ensuring events achieve their commercial and customer objectives.

This is a varied role offering the opportunity to work across multiple event formats and geographies, producing flagship events for leading brands including ICA and Axco.

Job Purpose, Tasks and Responsibilities:

• Lead Producer – ICA Virtual Events

• Analysing audience data, financial performance, feedback and competitor landscapes to inform event strategy.
• Conducting detailed telephone research (30+ interviews per event) to validate content, format, pricing, timing and geography.
• Presenting research findings clearly to demonstrate commercial viability.
• Establishing and managing industry advisory boards where appropriate.
• Writing high-quality, commercially viable conference programmes and awards categories.
• Identifying, inviting and confirming high-calibre speakers and judges.
• Working closely with ICA brand teams to ensure content relevance and leverage industry relationships.
• Proposing new event ideas, formats and future launches to drive growth.
• Building strong relationships with industry stakeholders, speakers and sponsors.

• Co-Producer – Axco Events

• Supporting portfolio and event strategy execution.
• Researching and securing senior-level speakers and judges.
• Supporting agenda development and validation.
• Writing compelling marketing copy for websites, emails and social media.
• Collaborating with marketing, sales and operations teams to ensure seamless delivery.

This role is designed to transition into full portfolio ownership after 12 months.

What’s the Best Thing About This Role: You will work on flagship events for globally recognised brands in governance, risk and compliance, with the freedom to innovate, launch new formats and build events that genuinely serve their audiences.

What’s the Most Challenging Thing About This Role: Managing multiple projects, stakeholders and deadlines while delivering commercially successful events in fast-moving, highly regulated markets.

To be successful in this role, you must have/be:

• Minimum 1.5+ years’ experience in commercial conference production.
• Strong qualitative and quantitative research skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with strong copywriting ability.
• Proven project management capability.
• Strong commercial awareness, including understanding of P&L and event KPIs.
• Confidence conducting telephone-based research.
• Experience producing virtual events.
• CRM experience (Salesforce, MS Dynamics or similar).
• Strong Microsoft Excel skills.

We know it’s not a skill, but the successful candidate must have permission to work in the role’s location by the start of their employment.

Wilmington Events is a specialist provider of events within the global Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) sector and forms part of Wilmington Plc. We work closely with our brands to deliver conferences, awards, virtual events and bespoke experiences that support fast-growing, highly regulated markets.

Our portfolio includes events for:

• International Compliance Association (ICA) – a leading global voice in financial crime prevention and GRC education.
• Axco – the leading authority for professionals operating in multinational insurance.

We are ambitious and inclusive, filled with integrity and curiosity. Join us and achieve more within your career with mutual respect, support and fair rewards.