Event Producer
Workgroup
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Job summary
Workgroup seeks an Event Producer to own and run HR-focused events for senior leaders. You’ll lead speaker outreach, craft agendas, secure sponsorships, and drive attendance across the UK. The role offers remote-first days with travel to Manchester/Leeds. Training is provided and progression is performance-based.
Expect a starting salary of £28,000 with a 10% commission on profit, plus a flexible 35-hour week and generous annual leave; travel abroad occasionally may be required as events expand.
Qualifications
- No events experience required - we train you from scratch.
- Charisma and strong written communication are essential.
- Excellent organisational ability and attention to detail.
- Resilient, self-motivated and results-driven with a collaborative mindset.
- Willing to support colleagues' events and contribute to team culture.
Responsibilities
- Winning speakers: research and persuade 15–18 senior guests to join the agenda.
- Designing the agenda and shaping day-long panels and workgroups.
- Selling sponsorship: secure 3–6 sponsors per event and contract them.
- Filling the room: recruit 50–60 attendees with seniority; curate sponsor hitlists.
- Marketing your event: nurture audience via LinkedIn, email and post-event content.
- Owning the numbers: improve efficiencies and earn commission on profit.
- Delivering on the day: host, coordinate colleagues and manage venue conversations.
Skills
Tools
Job description
Own an event series. Meet the most senior HR Directors in the country. Make it yours.
Workgroup runs events for the most senior executives in the country: General Counsel, Chief Financial Officers, Chief People Officers, Chief Marketing Officers. We hate the old way of doing events: endless one-way presentations and thinly‑veiled sales pitches. So we don't do that.
We're a small, ambitious team, and every event genuinely belongs to the person running it. If that's you, you'll be trusted with real ownership fast, but backed properly while you learn the ropes.
We’re currently recruiting for an Event Producer (EP) to work in our Workgroup HR team making events for Chief People Officers and HR Directors.
As an Event Producer (EP), you'll take ownership of your own event series within one of our Branches (e.g. CFO, Legal, HR, CMO). Specifically, you'll be:
- Winning speakers - researching and personally persuading 15–18 of the most senior people in the country to join your agenda as “workgroupers.”
- Designing the agenda - shaping the day's panels and workgroups. There's a template; making it brilliant is on you.
- Selling sponsorship - bringing in 3–6 sponsors per event, understanding what they need, and contracting them (with your Branch Director's support).
- Filling the room - recruiting 50–60 attendees of the right seniority, including working sponsors' hitlists.
- Marketing your event - keeping your audience warm via LinkedIn, email, and sharp post‑event content.
- Owning the numbers - once you've run your first event, finding efficiencies and earning commission on profit.
- Delivering on the day - hosting, running your colleagues, and owning every venue conversation.
You’ll report to your Branch Director (BD), who sits across all of the events in your Branch (HR). During probation, you’ll work closely together as you learn how we make our amazing events so… well… amazing! At the start, they’ll guide you through each process, sign off any work that goes externally, and support you in landing huge speakers, writing stunning agendas, and delivering the best events in our industry.
However, once you’ve perfected the tools of our trade, understood the fundamentals of production, and built a track record of fantastic events, you’ll be given the autonomy to make your events your own. We’re looking for an ambitious perfectionist who, once they’ve learned our way, will take our winning formula and then take full ownership.
Speakers — seniority (the most senior in the country for your Branch), quantity (15–18), recognisable brands, and a visibly diverse agenda.
Attendees — seniority and quantity (50–60) while hitting the hitlists your sponsors give you.
Revenue — hitting the BUDGET / TARGET / STRETCH thresholds set for your event, with your BD's support on sponsorship.
- Salary - £28,000 base depending on experience, reviewed yearly.
- Commission - 10% of your events' profit — realistically £0–£12k+ in year one — plus our wider bonus scheme.
- Flexibility - 35 hours a week, entirely flexible. We're outputs-focused: we care what you achieve, not how or where you get there.
- Working away - once established, work from abroad for up to 3 months a year (within a reasonable time difference).
- Time off - 28 days' annual leave (including bank holidays), plus extra days for your birthday, Christmas week and more.
- Progression - based on your performance, not how long you've been here. Run great events and you'll move up fast.
This role is remote‑first day to day, but you'll need to be based within around an hour's travel of Manchester or Leeds as the events you’re running will be in these cities. You will also need to travel to some of your colleagues’ events across the UK, and maybe even abroad!
No events experience required - we'll train you from scratch as we’ve thrown the traditional events manual out of the window. What matters far more is charisma, sharp writing, relentless organisation, resilience, and ambition. Full detail is in the person specification below (and yes, the bonus points scheme is alive and well!)
w/c 21 September — a relaxed, two‑way conversation
25 September, to be completed by 29 September
w/c 28 September
w/c 5 October
No prior events experience is required for this role — it's listed as desirable, not essential, throughout. This spec should be read alongside the full job description.
- Confident building relationships with senior, senior-to-C-suite contacts
- Comfortable picking up the phone and leading conversations with strangers.
- Experience speaking with CXOs or other very senior professionals
- You've built a genuine network of senior contacts already
- Strong, punchy written English
- Able to write copy that doesn't sound corporate
- A portfolio or examples of writing, design or content you're proud of
- Design skills (Adobe Suite, Canva or similar)
- Excellent attention to detail
- Comfortable juggling many moving parts at once
- Confident in Excel/Google Sheets for tracking outreach and budgets
- You colour‑code things for fun (show us your colour!!)
- Able to handle rejection and keep going
- Self‑motivated, competitive, hungry to do well
- A track record of pushing through a tough sales or outreach process
- Something that shows your grit - a challenge, a business, an adventure
- A team player who gives and takes feedback well – we all just want these events to be as awesome as possible
- Willing to support colleagues' events, not just your own
- Ideas for team culture, Friday Fun, or supporting others' agendas
- None in events required - full training given
- Previous events, conference production, sales or account management experience
- Based within approx. 1 hour of Manchester or Leeds
- Right to work in the UK
- Able to travel to events across the UK
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