Conference Producer – Sydney (Relocation Considered)

Technology Events

Up to $80,000 + + profit share + super

Sydney (Central)

My client is a fast-growing events company working across the Tech & Data space, globally renowned for producing global conferences, customised events and content for a cross-industry audience of executives with roles in data, analytics, data science, digital transformation, marketing, info security (cyber. A role has arisen for a Conference Producer looking to relocate to Sydney.

The Role…

Exhibiting an entrepreneurial flair, an eye for detail, business research acumen and project management skills, you will form key relationships with the Sales, Marketing and Operations functions within our organisation to ensure the smooth and profitable execution of each event you work on, strengthening our ever-growing global brand.

Key Responsibilities

• Producing a targeted number of profitable business events, including conferences, roundtables and workshops.
• Wide-ranging desktop research to establish key industry talking points and to understand the competitive event landscape, as well as the vendor market, utilising a number of online resources and publications.
• Extensive phone research with key senior-level business executives to explore and validate conference topics and establish ‘golden content’ that is unavailable for public consumption.
• Writing articulate, engaging and thought-leading conference agendas, utilising the findings of your in-depth research campaigns.
• Inviting, confirming and managing senior executives as speakers, panellists and chairs of your event.
• Developing advanced briefing documents for Marketing and Sales, summarising the findings of your research and the validity of your conference agenda, equipping them with the necessary knowledge to ensure the financial success of your event.
• Creating original and innovative sales and marketing copy, as well as online content to support promotional campaigns.

Key Competencies

• Enthusiastic self-starter with excellent initiative, strong work ethic and ‘can do’ attitude.
• Confident and effective communicator, with an ability to quickly create rapport and build relationships.
• Entrepreneurial flair with business acumen, reflected in an ability to maintain budgetary control as well build commercially appealing and result-driven products.
• Exceptional organisational and time management skills; able to balance multiple tasks, effectively prioritise and meet deadlines.
• Calm under pressure and able to think quickly and rationally when confronted with any type of challenge.
• Able to collect, understand and utilise large amounts of complex information from varied sources.
• Advanced level of written communication skills, with the ability to create professional and engaging agendas, copy and content.

Key Requirements

• You will be a graduate with a minimum 2:1 degree or equivalent.
• You will have at least 6 months commercial conference production experience.