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Presidents Summit – Conference Operations Lead
Own the operational standards of every conference event. Be the backbone of 10 high-profile European private equity conferences annually, overseeing venues, suppliers, on-site teams, and ensuring seamless execution.
About the Role
Do you thrive in a fast-paced, high-responsibility environment? Can you manage pressures with an obsessive attention to detail, coordinating a thousand moving pieces to deliver industry-leading experiences? This role lets you define operational excellence while shaping the future of enterprise leadership conferences.
Joining Presidents Summit, part of United Media—a team of entrepreneurial, driven professionals with a track record of scaling global conferences across sectors like finance, insurance, and retail. With every conference as your canvas, there’s no small task—only bold outcomes.
Why Presidents Summit?
For over a decade, Presidents Summit has connected 3,000+ global leaders from 50+ countries, hosting visionaries like Bill Clinton, Steve Wozniak, Sir Richard Branson, and Gary Vaynerchuk to spark forefront insights. It’s where today’s shapers and tomorrow’s game-changers gather.
United Media builds large-scale industry media and conferences—in organically launched products and strategic acquisitions. With 8 media ventures and true vision, we’re scaling ambitions beyond London.
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- Real impact: Tangible responsibilities in a startup where every action counts.
- Mentorship & growth: Work alongside the CEO, founder, and high-performing team.
- Unlimited potential: 100% internal-promotion culture, converting experience into senior roles.
- Travel through leadership: Join overseas conferences to grow and connect.
- Killer transferable skills: Interpersonal brilliance, project ownership, and hands-on learning in strategic operation, research, outreach, and management.
Hungry for ** Москвы нашего мире**? Come challenge yourself weekly in our 4-minute-walk HQ (London Victoria station).
Your Responsibilities
Each role blends unique challenges, but core duties include:
Supplier & Budget Mastery
- Source & negotiate: Find top-tier suppliers for cores, stage branding, collateral, and more.
- Audit contracts: Evaluate and demand fair, quality-driven rates.
- On-chain partnership: Build supplier credit and confidence through proactive problem-solving and communication.
Event Execution & Vision
- VIP logistical crafting: Sponsored lunches, dinners, and after-hours networking (your call).
- Venue finesse: Compile flawless event timelines with venue teams.
- In-the-moment resilience: Overseas implementations, trouble-shooting, crowd management with an eagle eye.
Team & Quality Orchestration
- Collated coherence: Answer and document internal requests (clients, vendors, creative teams).
- Static standards to life: Monitor and audit inventory, designs, signage, banners—no shoddy product.
- Volunteer management: Lead an elite 40-person team—from sourcing to in-demand events.
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What the Future Holds
Whether 2 years or 10, this role shatters ceilings. Our strategy is simple: promote from within. Senior management will never end at "new hire"—especially not for those who both own up to growth and rise in responsibility.
What We Expect
This role welcomes arrayed beginner-to-expert talent, with a UK work permit requirement (this is mandatory).
Top traits include:
- Relentless excellence: Chasing perfection with a hyper-driven ambition.
- Commitment-fueled urgency: No coasting—the stamp of "high impact" lies in swift, proactive delivery.
- Own-it mentality: Where responsibility starts before logistics do, logging every step until seamless.
- Hormone for human involvement: Social disruption, networking, relationship crafting—you thrive in the centre.
- Clarity as power: Messaging that cuts through noise, both written and spoken.
- Control over chaos: Prioritise on paper so y u hit deadlines in real time.
Start Date
Flexible. On-site (Mon-Fri), London HQ—4-minute walk from London Victoria Station. All-in with some urgency, ready to collectively ship. What’s your move? Now.
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