Conference Producer, based in Leatherhead, Surrey

Full or part time hours

The role

We are looking for a commercially minded and ambitious producer to join our friendly B2B events team. You will be working for a company who are highly regarded and a market leader in their industry.

In the role of Conference Producer some of your duties will include:

• Research, content and programme development
• Conduct desk and phone research to identify market trends and develop commercially viable conference programmes tailored to the needs of the industry
• Identify and acquire senior level speakers for the events and workshops
• Write engaging conference agendas
• Ensure strong communication and collaboration with sales, marketing and operations teams
• Create briefs for sales and marketing
• To work with the events team to ensure cost effective and high quality running of conference, with costs maintained within or below budget
• Responsible for the commercial performance of your portfolio of events
• Collate detailed project information, report to Head of Production, and drive strategic direction of events in consultation with management.
• Develop strategic relationships with key suppliers / stakeholders in industrial sectors to ensure events have increased traction with the target market
• Conveying compelling new topic ideas to senior decision makers
• Attend Smithers events and run them on the day
• Devising high quality conferences by researching and testing ideas and identifying good commercial opportunities
• Input to annual budget planning process, and events list in cooperation with Head of Production.

Benefits

• Private medical
• 25 days annual leave, plus bank holidays
• Hybrid remote work schedule (2 days from home, 3 days in the office)
• Retail discounts
• Employee assistance program
• Ride to work scheme
• Service awards
• Life assurance
• Excellent development opportunities
• Regular social events
• Friday afternoon off!

The person

In the Conference Producer role, we require the following skills and experience:

• Experience in conference production and research is prefferable
• Strong commercial acumen to identify compelling topics and securing high level speakers
• Existing knowledge of B2B commercial conferences
• Strategic thinking in order to map out future opportunities for new markets
• Educated to degree level with strong academic background
• Ability to regularly travel in Europe. This will include locations such as - Amsterdam, Barcelona, Munich, Berlin.

The company

At Smithers we provide B2B events, market research, publications and strategic and technical consulting across 4 brands in 10 different vertical industries. We are renowned throughout numerous industry areas for our quality, high calibre conferences, and our comprehensive and informative market research reports. We offer independent and expert market insight to allow companies to identify opportunities and grow their business. In addition to offices in the US and UK, the organisation has specialist consultants world-wide.

We actively encourage career development and passionately support those who want to pursue and develop within the Smithers family. We have numerous examples of progression throughout the business and within some of our global businesses are proud that the average length of service amongst employees is a minimum of 10 years.