Title: Senior Conference Producer
Location: 240 Blackfriars Road, London, SE1
Job Type: Temporary Contract
Function: Marketing
Work Type: Hybrid - Onsite 3 Days Per Week
Our Company Connect delivers market-leading events and digital content for professionals across Finance, Life Sciences, Foodservice and more. Our platforms bring businesses together, support networking, and provide valuable industry insights through live and on-demand experiences. Join our expert team and help create impactful events and content for UK and global audiences.
Role Profile:
The freelance role of Conference Producer in the Global Finance Division at our company Connect offers a commercially astute and dynamic individual the opportunity to take on a portfolio of industry-leading events for a finite period. This involves conducting market research, building relationships with key industry players, designing compelling agendas, recruiting senior-level speakers, and driving the commercial success of events. The role is ideal for a proactive, organized, and professional freelancer with excellent communication skills who thrives on intellectual challenges and autonomy. Leveraging AI and innovative tools to enhance content strategy and event delivery will be essential to achieving success in this exciting, project-based opportunity.
Key Responsibilities:
- Analyze the industry and past conferences to determine market opportunities
- Work with the Senior Strategy Director and Head of Production to set the event's strategy for the year
- Detailed research by contacting a complete cross-section of the target market through phone, desk research, and meetings to determine customer requirements
- SWOT analysis of competitors' events through websites, brochures, speaking to attendees, and attending when applicable
- Analysis of multi-source research to write a compelling program agenda
- Identify and contact potential speakers and find the hook to encourage them to join the speaker faculty
- Negotiate speaker fees and expenses and stay within budget
- Work with marketing to design a compelling content-based marketing campaign to promote the conference
- Write industry-focused promotional copy for websites and marketing pieces
- Work with the digital media team to design and implement promotional campaigns via social media channels
- Work with the marketing department to ensure that they are targeting the right markets, sourcing appropriate media partners, and working with the chairman, speakers, and sponsors of the conference to raise the profile of the event
- Work with Sponsorship and Exhibition team to drive leads and identify additional revenue-generating opportunities
- Work with operations to ensure budgets are accurate and the event runs smoothly on the day
- Run the conference on the day, including opening the conference
- Use AI tools to enhance market research, streamline agenda creation, optimize speaker outreach, and improve marketing campaigns
- Conduct at-event research to identify future potential events and ways in which events can be improved
- Production of post-conference report
- Willingness to travel to events.
What do I need?
- Minimum two years' experience in conference production
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, being able to deal with stakeholders of all levels
- Excellent MS Office skills
- Commercial awareness
- Experience of working in a research-based role
- Copywriting skills
- Brand and market awareness
- Familiarity with AI tools and their application in research, content creation, and marketing optimization
Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
