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 dan@mediasearchinc.co.uk in the first instance