Cogora
Senior Conference Producer, Maternity Cover
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Maternity Cover, Start date September/October 2026
Our events range from small, bespoke events for individual clients to large conferences and exhibitions with up to 1,000 attendees. This role sits within the events team responsible for the conferences and events which go alongside our editorial brands.
It is a small, efficient team driven by delivering and exceeding KPIs of attendance, delegate satisfaction and commerciality.
This role will be responsible for managing the virtual and face-to-face content for at least three of our brands, Nursing in Practice, Management in Practice and Clinical Excellence (at least 20 events) and is more than just traditional conference production with a project lead role in ensuring certain elements (especially virtual) run smoothly.
Responsibilities
- Developing high quality conference programmes
- Researching content across a selection of conference portfolios via primary research, desk research and working with internal and external advisory boards and editorial teams.
- Writing conference programmes which address the needs of the target audience
- Speaker recruitment and liaison to include negotiation expenses, collecting bios/photos and presentations
- Sponsor liaison in order to gather information relating to their sponsored workshops
- Building interactivity and new session formats into agendas for virtual and f2f events
- Working closely with the sales team to identify revenue opportunities
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Face-to-face event attendance
- Onsite management of the agenda/speakers for all face-to-face events within your portfolio (c10 across the UK)
- Onsite support for some events outside of your portfolio to assist with registration etc
Virtual event management and hosting
- Updating and proofing of event websites where applicable
- Creation of webinar staging pages and zoom links including sign-off for sponsors
- Hosting of virtual events (in backend)
- Supporting creation of on-demand pages and working with design on video edits
Supporting events marketing campaigns
- Working with the marketing team to develop marketing messaging
- Providing copy for emails, websites and ads
- Identifying possible marketing partnerships (contras)
- Updating and proofing of event websites
Overall knowledge and development
- Constantly developing your knowledge of the healthcare sector
- Tracking the activity of direct competitors in our sector
- Understanding our compliance obligations and that of our sponsors particularly regarding APBI
- Keeping on top of other key training to complete your job i.e. data protection, IT security
- Any other reasonable task required
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Key skills
The ideal candidate will have a minimum of two years experience in conference production with knowledge of seeing an event from inception to completion including primary and secondary research, speaker recruitment and on-site management. Prior experience working with health sector and/or pharmaceutical events will be of benefit.
They should be confident in taking responsibility for their events and working autonomously whilst ensuring that all key stakeholders in the team are up to date with event progress.
The ability to work under pressure and to deadlines is essential. The successful candidate must be able to multitask, working on multiple projects simultaneously.
Candidates should have an understanding of commercial drivers to events and ability to identify and resolve potential conflict between delegate and sponsor objectives.
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