Conference Producer

Company Description
**Informa PLC is a leading international events, intelligence and scholarly research group.**

Our purpose is to champion the specialist. Through hundreds of powerful brands we work with businesses and professionals in specialist markets, providing the connections, intelligence and opportunities that help customers grow, do business, make breakthroughs and take better informed decisions. Informa is listed on the London Stock Exchange and a member of FTSE 100, with over 11,000 colleagues working in more than 30 countries.

The role advertised sits within our new digital events and content business, based in Dubai and is part of the Informa Connect Division. This new digital events platform is uniquely fast paced and engaging, with highly curated virtual events that offer deep insights delivered brilliantly by industry experts, shaping conversations on critical industry topics and issues.

**Informa Connect** is a live events and digital content business that connects professionals with knowledge, ideas and opportunities.

In a world where the number of information sources and digital channels is proliferating, businesses and professionals rely on Informa Connect for relevant, high-quality knowledge and connections that help them learn more and do more.

Through specialist content and connections, delivered via in-person events, virtual events and digital platforms, Informa Connect's brands provide the latest thinking and ways to meet experts, peers and stay connected within a community.

We invest in creating exciting experiences based on high-quality speakers, stimulating content and platforms that enable discussion and networking. Our digital services provide year-round community content and connections and give sponsors and marketers effective ways to reach the right customers. Our brands are continuously developed to ensure they deliver a quantifiable return to audiences, sponsors and speakers.

Job Description

You will be responsible for developing and creating engaged communities by producing powerful content for physical and digital initiatives such as webinars, virtual events and newsletters as well as the main conferences.
- Production of physical and digital content creation
- Speaker negotiation related to virtual and physical events
- Hands on agenda writing for digital and physical products
- Capable to monetize hybrid content during the event and throughout the year
- Sales and marketing briefings to the wider team to ensure they understand the objectives and USPs when pitching to clients and customers to secure deals
- Government liaison and technical aspects across all relevant projects
- Work with the head of production to develop year-round strategies that will increase the commerciality of the conferences and content we produce

**KPIs**
- Delegate attendance and revenue
- Sponsorship revenue and digital sponsorship generation
- Timely delivery and quality of conference programmes
- Strategy development and delivery

**Main Duties & Responsibilities**:

- Project management/commerciality
- Review performance data that includes financial, sales, and activity reports and spreadsheets, to monitor and measure portfolio productivity, goal achievement, and overall effectiveness
- Review and approve creative briefs, conference brochures and brief

**Reporting and communication**
- Maintain transparent communication
- Effectively communicate organization information through department meetings, one-on-one meetings, and regular interpersonal communication
- Work closely with the marketing department to ensure quality of attendees to the conferences by reviewing data selection and ensuring quality data build for new conferences
- Develop new conference ideas, formats and content through brainstorming sessions and feedback from the energy community
- Identify key opinion leaders/institutions and companies within each show who can participate in the advisory board

Qualifications
- Educated to degree level or equivalent (Essential)
- Demonstrate good teamwork with co-workers/peers
- Be flexibles when on occasions asked to perform tasks outside of the overall remit
- Willingness to travel
- Significant experience in conference production
- Significant experience in topic validation and successful commercial launches
- Speaks and writes clear and fluent English to both individuals and groups
- Computer literate and proficient in the use of MS Office Programs
- Research orientated
- Copywriting/marketing skills
- Effective negotiation skills

Additional Information