Speaker Management Lead

JR United Kingdom; Slough; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A growing company based in London is seeking a Speaker Management Lead to oversee strategic relationships with world-class speakers. This role emphasizes building trusted engagements, driving new opportunities, and identifying emerging talents within an innovative and energetic team. The role allows for senior ownership and the chance to shape a new offering.

Qualifications

• 4–7 years’ experience in speaker management, talent representation, or live events.
• Strong understanding of media, publishing, and brand ecosystems.

Responsibilities

• Build long-term relationships with speakers for engagement opportunities.
• Identify and secure new opportunities across various sectors.
• Scout and onboard emerging speaker talent.

Skills

Relationship building

Commercial instincts

Proactivity

Entrepreneurial mindset

Job description

Speaker Management Lead | Thought Leadership & Engagement | London | Permanent

Are you an experienced lead in the area of speaker management, talent representation, live events, or an adjacent field? Are you seeking a new role with the opportunity to own and drive the strategy within the Speaker Management division of a growing London based business? If so please read on!

Our partner: Our client specialises in thought leadership and engagement programmes. They partner with the world’s leading thinkers, speakers and institutions.

The Role: Our client represents and manages a select roster of world-class thought-leaders. They are seeking a strategic leader to spearhead this service, acting as the primary point of contact for their speakers and partners.

You will own speaker relationships, drive new opportunities, and actively seek out and secure emerging talents who align with the client’s vision.

This role is highly relationship-focused and independent, working closely with the Communications, Account Management, and Leadership teams.

Responsibilities:

• Build trusted, long-term relationships with the roster of managed speakers in order to manage engagement opportunities, negotiations with efficiency and care.
• Proactively identify and secure new opportunities across a broad range of sectors: speaking engagements, media appearances, publishing deals, advisory roles, and more.
• Research and scout emerging speaker talent that aligns both with the company and client’s values and news, as well leading initial conversations to onboard new speaker talent.
• Identify and pitch innovative brand partnerships and commercial opportunities that elevate both our speakers’ profiles and the client’s offerings.
• Represent the client externally to clients, partners, brands, and industry networks.

Experience and skills that will deliver success in this role: We are keen to meet people who have 4–7 years’ experience in speaker management, talent representation, live events, brand partnerships, business development, PR, or an adjacent field.

The ideal candidate:

• Is a natural relationship builder with strong commercial instincts who can work independently, takes ownership, and thrives in a fast-paced, ideas-driven environment.
• Has a broad understanding of the opportunities available across speaking, media, publishing, and brand ecosystems and is highly proactive, entrepreneurial, and unafraid to create new opportunities.

The opportunity: We think this is an amazing opportunity to shape and grow a new offering with senior ownership and autonomy alongside a creative, energetic team environment based in central London.

What’s on offer:

• Working pattern: Hybrid central London

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Created on 31/05/2025 by JR United Kingdom