Conference Production Director

Media Search Inc.; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Media Search Inc. seeks an experienced Portfolio Manager from the conference production space to rapidly scale a growing portfolio across international events.

You will own the commercial trajectory, deliver yearly budgets, recruit top speakers, and take ownership of new tracks while mentoring junior producers to drive performance and collaboration. This role combines research with business acumen to shape financially successful conference products and deliver measurable impact across a global

Qualifications

• 6+ years in B2B conference programming.
• Experience producing complex event programmes and managing executive speakers.
• Proven success growing event brands commercially and strategically.

Responsibilities

• Deliver the yearly commercial result and budgeted product load.
• Provide high-level tactical event execution with strategic direction.
• Generate and validate seed ideas to create new product opportunities.

Skills

B2B conference programming

Executive speaker rosters

Strategic portfolio development

Leadership & project management

Stakeholder management

Commercial growth mindset

Job description

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.

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
• 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
• 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