Job Purpose
This is a crucial time for the energy industry as it rapidly adapts and evolves to meet net-zero ambitions across the globe as part of the energy transition. dmg events is committed to playing a key role in bringing together the major stakeholders to across the Energy conference platform to meet to discuss the critical decarbonisation goals.
This role is key to the success of the growth and development of our business, it’s heavily focussed on year-round content and the programme development of our global conferences but also covers other areas of the conference management. Working alongside a team of producers, commercial, marketing, PR, data & digital, operations teams you will report to the Conference Director.
The Senior Conference Producer’s responsibility is to support on the deliver all aspects of the conference lifecycle, including content development, speaker communication and liaison, managing relationships within the industry, and inputting on digital content campaigns to support the programme. This will involve working on agendas including: the Commercial and Technical agendas, alongside Features including the Procurement Meetings programme.
Key Accountabilities:
Conference Production
- Help with the required administrative jobs where needed.
- Management of speaker travel and accommodation & cost-tracker updates
- Travelling nationally and internationally to conferences and onsite project and team management to ensure the successful, high-quality delivery of customer services and the event experience to delegates, as well as speaker liaison to ensure all speaker preparation and requirements are taken care of and that the faculty feel welcome, comfortable, and happy to participate in our conferences.
- Liaising with Conference speakers/ moderators and their communication teams for placement on the agenda
- Conducting telephone and in-person research with potential attendees in the target market to develop programme agendas
- Joining sponsorship calls and meetings with existing and potential clients where necessary
- Ensuring that the conference agenda is at the highest level of commercial viability for both sponsorship and delegate sales
- Working closely with the Marketing team to develop digital content-marketing campaign ideas
- Recruiting highly esteemed leading experts, industry representatives, regulators, government representatives, and other relevant speakers to your programme faculty
- Researching and providing strategic information required to market and sell conferences to the marketing and sales functions, including: detailed information on the target market both in terms of sector and geographic markets relevant industry associations and publications
- Attending conferences to promote the conference, gather market intelligence, and to network with potential speakers and delegates to establish and maintain relationships pre- and post- conference
Conference Project Management
- Maintaining close links with management to ensure that they are kept up to date with the status of events
- Preparing and sending weekly / monthly reports, as appropriate
- Working closely with the operations team to ensure delivery of a first-class on-site conference experience for attendees.
Qualifications, Experience and Skills:
- You will be passionate, dedicated, and knowledgeable about developing smart, profitable, and industry-leading conference programmes and have proven and comprehensive experience of applying efficient and effective processes to your own successful conference portfolio.
- You will demonstrate the ability to simultaneously manage sub programmes and Feature agendas as part of the bigger programmes
- You will show how you are able to support marketing and sales campaigns
- Excellent networking and information gathering abilities
- Engaging, professional, and diplomatic demeanour
- Comfortable conducting regular phone calls and meetings with industry figures
- Strong teamwork skills to ensure the efficient running of the event team across content, marketing, sales and operations
- Self-Disciplined and able to work both independently and as part of a team
- Problem solver with the ability to break down complex concepts, make logical comparisons, and identify underlying patterns and connections
- Agile learner with the ability to develop in-depth technical knowledge on diverse topics and an understanding of key commercial drivers underlying your products
- Resilient, with a strong desire to succeed
- Foreign language skills or the willingness to learn foreign languages is desirable
dmg events is an equal opportunity employer. If you have not heard from us within 14 days of this submission, please consider your application unsuccessful for this round.
