Conference Production Director

Head of Conference Portfolios London Area, United Kingdom (Hybrid) Up to £75,000  Bonus  Benefits My client have a very exciting opportunity for an experienced Portfolio Manager from the conference production space who is seeking to quickly scale their own portfolio and team on a series of international conferences. The successful candidate will:
Drive the overall profitability of P&L(s) within the business. You’ll have multiple PL responsibility to both generate new launches, as well as grow established repeat events.

Responsibilities include:

• 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 to create more product opportunities. Commercial & Performance Ownership Market Intelligence & Stakeholder Engagement Product Development & Innovation Recruit significant number of speakers for event. Take ownership of new event tracks. Produce content assets e.g. whitepapers, webinars. Identify and pilot new product features — such as advisory councils, awards, innovation showcases Team Leadership & Collaboration Providing mentoring, development, and performance feedback to junior producers.

Support a high-performance culture focused on collaboration, creativity, and commercial accountability. Attributes
• 6  years’ experience in b2b conference programming
• Experience in the production of complex event programmes and managing a wide roster of executive speakers
• Proven success in growing event brands commercially and strategically. Demonstrable leadership and advanced project management skills.

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 advance business skills to have true ownership of your conference products’ financials and commercial trajectory