Conference Producer
Infopro Digital Group is recruiting for a Conference Producer to join our global events team based out of our London offices.
Infopro Digital is a global company with 4,000 employees and annual revenues of over a billion dollars, with a presence in 18 countries. Through our market-leading brands, we serve five professional communities – insurance and finance, automotive, construction, retail, and industrials – enabling our clients to make informed business decisions and create new opportunities.
For our global financial services division, our brands focus on financial services and are known collectively as Risk Global, a 300-person organization with offices in Hong Kong, Singapore, London, Nashville, and New York. Working with us means being part of a company with strong financial backing while enabling you to truly make a difference.
Risk Global’s portfolio of brands includes Risk.net, Insurance Post, Insurance Age, Central Banking, WatersTechnology, and Chartis Research. Through our proprietary editorial platforms, we create unique market insights and technical content for risk, technology, and trading professionals from banks, asset managers, and insurers. We also create high-value marketing and research solutions for providers who seek access to our engaged communities.
Our people are passionate about delivering the best possible outcomes for the customers and markets we serve. We are an impact-driven and entrepreneurial business that provides support while at the same time trusting great people to do great things.
We are collaborative and move fast, with our people developing new skills even faster. Thanks to our global reach and international locations, we celebrate and expect diverse perspectives, which we believe add to the richness of our business. We are committed to an inclusive workplace where everyone can be themselves. We also realize everyone has a life outside of work, and we offer flexible solutions to ensure everyone has a healthy work-life balance.
As a key member of the global events team, your main responsibilities and the qualities we are looking for include:
The ability to write market-leading agendas in a very technical space.
Commercially qualifying conference agendas.
Working with the sales team to ensure conferences reach and exceed commercial targets.
Commercial format innovation and championing, so that sponsor and delegate experiences are always improved and evolving.
Market research – mainly telephone and face-to-face research, but also desk-based research and attending external events.
Speaker research, acquisition, and management.
Brief writing – creating marketing, sales, and telesales briefs that explain your events to the wider team.
Project management to ensure that conference milestones are met across production, marketing, sales, telesales, and operations.
Client-facing, personable, and professional.
Running the events and on-site speaker liaison.
Being a part of the industry and ‘the face’ of your events at all times.
Creating and contributing to marketing collateral that will attract sponsors, delegates, and media partners.
Exceptional copywriting across digital and print channels.
Proofreading and excellent attention to detail.
Keeping to best practice production timelines and KPIs.
Managing conference department systems/IT, such as putting event content and speaker biographies and photos online.
Requirements
Our ideal candidate will be an experienced senior conference producer or conference manager looking to join an unparalleled brand in financial services. Does that sound like you?
Proven years of experience in a conference or events research environment.
Strong commercial experience, with a demonstrable track record of driving gross profit growth on events.
Proven research and analytical skills.
Very strong attention to detail and effective time management.
Excellent organizational and project leadership skills.
Ability to build business relationships at all levels.
Ability to work both independently and as part of a team within a pressurized environment with tight deadlines.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Educated to degree level (or equivalent), preferably in English, History, Politics/Economics, business-related, science, or technical disciplines.
Benefits
This role is hybrid based in London
We have plenty of options for your working preferences.
A fantastic holiday allowance that increases as you spend longer with the company
Take your birthday off…on us
Access to a 24/7/365 Employee Assistance Programme offering support and guidance around all areas of wellbeing and mental health, including face-to-face counselling.
Access to our extensive learning programmes, through our dedicated platform, Generation Infopro
Paid volunteer days throughout the year where you can contribute your skills and expertise to make a meaningful difference to the lives of others
What you’ll get
Our global employee benefits include:
25 days annual leave (rising up to 30 days)
Group personal pension plan
Life assurance
Interest free season ticket loan (STL)
Private medical insurance
Employee assistance programme
Bonusly employee recognition
Employee discount scheme
Eye-care Vouchers
Discounted gym membership
Agile/remote working
Bike to work
Buying holiday
Dental insurance
Give as you earn
Add partner to gym membership
Health cash plan
Personal accident insurance
Learn more about us
Infopro Digital is a B2B group specialising in information and technology. With a presence in 18 countries, the group has 4,000 employees of 55 nationalities.
Infopro Digital connects professional communities.
Our brands are leaders in the five key economic sectors: construction and public sector, automotive, industry, risk & insurance, and retail.
With our solutions, decision makers make informed decisions and companies develop their business and performance in a sustainable way.
Equal Opportunities
We provide equal opportunities to employees and job applicants and do not discriminate either directly or indirectly, because of any protected characteristic or any other characteristic or activity protected by law. To fully comply with all laws prohibiting discrimination in all phases of employment, we have set up a system of monitoring all job applications, we therefore ask you to complete the equal opportunities questions on this form.
This information will be collected anonymously, in confidence and will not be seen by anyone directly involved in the hiring process, it will be stored separately and used only to provide statistics for monitoring purposes. There is no obligation on you to provide information. All applicants will be treated the same, whether or not they provide this information.
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