Graduate Conference Manager at Retail Insights

Retail Insights; London; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

Retail Insights is seeking a Graduate Conference Manager to join their dynamic team in London. This role offers the chance to take ownership of key business areas, drive projects, and develop strategies in a fast-paced environment. Ideal candidates are proactive, excellent communicators, and eager to learn, with opportunities for travel and personal growth.

Benefits

Opportunity for travel

Unlimited growth potential

Inspiration and guidance from leadership

Qualifications

• Relentless drive and desire to excel.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to structure and prioritize work.

Responsibilities

• Drive projects related to growing new companies.
• Become an industry expert to develop and execute strategies.
• Be a key driver of expansion and daily operations.

Skills

Communication

Organization

Project Management

Interpersonal Skills

Job description

London, United Kingdom

Do you thrive in a fast-paced environment, where you gain a tremendous amount of responsibility? Do you want to be part of an exceptional entrepreneurial team with young, motivated and extremely driven people? And are you curious or passionate about people? If so, you might be our next Graduate Conference Manager.

About us

Retail Insights is Northern Europe’s leading retail forum. We are strengthening the retail ecosystem by building a platform for insights, inspiration, and networking, connecting more than 3,000 leaders yearly from more than 15 countries.

Retail Insights is part of United Media ( https://www.united-media.com/ ) which focuses on building large scale industry media and conferences products in sectors such as insurance, HR, private equity, retail, etc. As of today, we have organically launched 8 media companies and acquired one.

What we offer you

As our Graduate Conference Manager you get the unique opportunity to take ownership of one of our key business areas. You’ll be working in-person in your HQ in London where you will constantly be pushed out of your comfort zone. To ensure a never ending growth curve, we provide you with:

• Opportunity of having a real impact - You’ll be getting operational experience in a start-up where both your work and the results are highly tangible and matter to the business.
• Inspiration and guidance - A chance to work closely with our high performing team as well as with the CEO and founder of our company.
• Unlimited growth potential in our company - we strongly believe in and have a track record of promoting internally.
• Travel opportunity: You would be joining our conferences overseas.
• Invaluable transferable skills - boost your interpersonal, research, organisation, outreach and project management skills through experience and training.

Your Responsibilities

Responsibilities in this job will vary however, they will be mostly centred around:

• Driving projects related to growing new companies: starting new ventures, creating stellar marketing operations, crafting and executing sales strategies or recruiting leading A+ teams.
• Becoming an industry expert to develop and execute effective strategies.
• Being a key driver of expansion and excellent daily operations.
• To dream big and pursue it relentlessly!

What we expect from you

Please note that this job does not require any specific previous work experience as training is provided and we are looking to incorporate candidates across different levels of experience. However, we do require you to have a UK work permit.

Furthermore, we are looking for candidates who:

• Have a relentless drive and desire to be the very best at what they do;
• Possess and unparalleled work ethic with a high sense of urgency;
• Take ownership of everything they do, are proactive and follow through on commitments;
• Are curious about people and love to speak, build and nurture relations;
• Are an excellent communicator (especially) verbally and in writing;
• Are well-organised and display the ability to structure and prioritise their work.

Startdate

Flexible

The role is onsite, Monday to Friday, based in our offices at Buckingham Gate. It is essential we work at a fast pace and collaborate in person to create market-leading, unmatched events throughout the calendar year. It will be great to have you as part of our team.

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