Job 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.

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.

An exciting new opportunity has arisen to join Informa Connect\'s Conference Production Team as a Senior Conference Producer in the Agriculture Sector. The Senior Conference Producer will be responsible for both validating and developing new launch events projects for the division, as well as driving growth within the team\xe2\x80\x99s existing portfolio of physical and virtual events. The role offers a great opportunity to help develop the agriculture portfolio of events across Europe, Africa, South East Asia and the Middle East. Ideal candidates will have already excelled as Producers and have demonstrated experience of managing challenging launch products.

You will be responsible for developing and creating an engaged community by producing powerful content for physical and digital initiatives such as webinars, virtual events and newsletters as well as the main conferences.

• In-charge of physical and digital content creation
• Speaker negotiation related to virtual and physical events, including multiyear deals
• Hands on agenda writing for digital and physical products
• Developing a digital agenda for the whole year including webinars, newsletters, content
• Capable to monetize hybrid content during the event and throughout the year
• Sponsorship direction and sales briefings to the wider team to ensure they understand the objectives and USPs when pitching to clients to secure deals
• Government liaison and technical aspects across all relevant projects
• Work with the portfolio director 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
• Manage the overall operational, budgetary, and financial responsibilities
• 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 briefs
• Mentor and provide any necessary training to the project team(s)

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 agriculture 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 flexible 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:

We know that sometimes the \'perfect candidate\' doesn\'t exist, and that people can be put off applying for a job if they don\'t fit all the requirements. If you\'re excited about working for us and have most of the skills or experience we\'re looking for, please go ahead and apply. You could be just what we need! We believe strongly in the value of diversity and creating supportive, inclusive environments where our colleagues can succeed.
As such, Informa is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, or religious creed, mental or physical disability, medical condition, genetic information, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, citizenship, or other protected characteristics under local law. This role may also be available on a flexible working or part time basis \xe2\x80\x93 please ask the Talent Acquisition team for more information.

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