What You’ll Be Doing…

• Use primary market research, as well as insights from GlobalData’s proprietary data, to inform cutting edge agendas, demonstrating good writing skills. Write compelling copy to promote the benefits of the agenda.
• Recruit quality, senior speakers via multiple channels, including email, social, video conference calls and in-person meetings within best practice timeframes and meeting KPIs.
• Innovate: generate new topic ideas and demonstrate entrepreneurial skills in order to bring those ideas to life. Recruit out of the ordinary, inspirational speakers. Reconceptualise formats to ensure quality, interactive, commercial products that provide unrivalled value to our delegates and sponsors.
• Support the sales team to hit and exceed financial objectives. Demonstrate a commercial mindset when writing agendas, during client prospecting, onboarding and management.
• Prepare full sponsorship sales and marketing briefs, demonstrate excellent communication skills when delivering them, as well as collaborating with the wider team on client-facing agendas and media packs.
• New product development: actively contribute to the portfolio schedule with well-validated product launches which respond to market trends and complement the portfolio.
• Ensure the profitability of events – meet event budgets and keep overall costs in control.
• Run international conferences professionally on-site, dealing with sponsors, speakers and delegates alike.
• Provide pre and post-conference content, reports and summaries, for the event websites, social channels and emails.

What We’re Looking For…

Successful candidates will have a strong track record of developing key relationships with end-user and supplier companies and shaping the evolution of commercial events. You will report to the Head of Event Content and be responsible for growth planning, product innovation and delivery of the global Consumer events portfolio.

• A minimum of seven years working in B2B conferences and commercial production.
• Track record of contributing to the growth of events/events series by working closely with sponsorship and delegate sales teams and contributing to their hitting and exceeding of targets.
• Evidence of generating new ideas for events and successfully producing launch conferences.
• Experience working in international markets.
• An understanding of technological advances impacting global industries, and how business transformation is enabled by cutting edge tech.

In addition to a rewarding career, we support our GlobalData colleagues with a range of benefits across health, finances, fitness, travel, tech and more. To find out more about the roles and benefits on offer in your region, visit careers.globaldata.com

GlobalData believes strongly in the value of diversity and creating supportive, inclusive environments where our colleagues can succeed. As such, we are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. GlobalData is determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, age, disability, religion, belief, sexual orientation, marital status, race, or is disadvantaged by conditions or requirements which cannot be shown to be justifiable.