Senior Conference Producer

Overview

Bisnow is seeking a full-time Senior Event Producer to join our London team in a hybrid environment. We’re looking for someone with 3–5 years of Commercial Real Estate experience (including property management) or live event production experience such as identifying key topics and sourcing speakers. This role is based in our London office four days per week, with one day remote (3 Waterhouse Sq, Greater London, EC1N 2SW
), and will oversee the production of events across the UK, Netherlands, and Ireland.

Bisnow is the commercial real estate industry's leading, vertically integrated B2B media platform, covering North America, Canada, the UK and Ireland. We serve the CRE industry through award-winning news and publications, renowned events, wide-ranging marketing services, specialized recruitment solutions and intelligent sales enablement tools. Our platform enables our audience to do more business by engaging more than 1.5 million subscribers and convening more than 100,000 commercial real estate professionals every year.

We host hundreds of events, publish thousands of thought-provoking stories, drive qualified leads and create opportunities that make deals happen. At Bisnow, we love to think globally but connect and inform our audience hyperlocally.

• Identify potential speakers & establish contact with said individuals; persistently recruit prospects using phone and email
• Educate potential speakers on why it makes sense to spend their time speaking at one of your events
• With your team, build from scratch and then manage the event experience. This involves researching out-of-the-box content ideas, recruiting and placing C-level executives on each conference, working side-by-side with sales to drive sponsorship and managing the event experience throughout the entire process
• Work with different departments at Bisnow to reach goals that can often be lofty. Bisnow is a sales-driven business and this role is one that requires an individual who can work with and support the sales team in achieving shared goals, no matter how ambitious they might be
• Utilize and establish contacts within the community to promote Bisnow and event attendance including partnerships with associations and local groups
• Diligently research CRE, programming ideas and top-notch speakers for your events
• Manage speaker relations and touchpoints - from the idea of the event to day-of execution
• Provide excellent service, support and communication to event speakers & sponsors
• Lead pre and post-event meetings by providing direction, guidance, and feedback to all involved
• Constantly look for innovative solutions to improve content and the attendee experience at your events
• Persistently brainstorm fresh and relevant topic ideas with your teams to adapt to trends within the industry
• Keep communication lines open through all departments on the status of events and projects
• Work collaboratively and cooperatively with members of all other departments
• Manage multiple events in various stages of production. This requires you to be extremely organized, detailed and have good time management skills

• 3 - 5 years of event production or property management experience
• Detail-oriented and deadline-driven, with very strong project management and meticulous organizational skills
• Ability to manage, develop and launch multiple projects under time-sensitive deadlines
• Great teammate with strong verbal and written communication skills
• Hands-on, roll up your sleeves worth ethic. Tenacity is expected
• The ability to establish and maintain relationships with key people in CRE
• Commitment to accuracy, quality, consistency and transparency
• Creativity and a healthy sense of humor
• Flexibility and the ability to handle situations creatively as well as jump into projects as needed and the initiative to notice a need and offer assistance where applicable
• Receptive to feedback and always open to constructive criticism
• Ability to work in a high-energy, fast-paced environment
• Demonstrated interest in commercial real estate
• Innate hustle, raw intelligence, infectious enthusiasm and intellectual curiosity
• Entrepreneurial and…