Conference Production Director - #2142463

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 P+L 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