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 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

Interested? Please send CV’s to in the first instance