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At Clarion, our people are at the absolute heart of what we do. We’re proud that our core values of PASSION, CARE, IMAGINATION, and TRUST define the way we carry out our work across all of our exhibitions and conferences.
If you share our values and want to be a part of a successful, dynamic, and creative global business then we want to hear from you.
The Opportunity:
We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Conference Producer, fluent in Spanish, to help develop on the success of existing events and shape the future strategy for a specialist oil and gas industry network. The Energy Council and World Refining Association run a series of highly successfully events for their global network of members.
The ideal candidate will be someone with ambition, enthusiasm, confidence, and a strong work ethic who is ready to take their skills and energy to the next level. They will be expected to disrupt the traditional conference formats, innovating, and adapting new ways in which people assimilate business information.
Key Responsibilities:
- Managing and leading a high-quality portfolio of events focused on the development of the energy industry within budget.
- Conduct in-depth market and industry research, virtually and in person to develop strong topical event agendas.
- Ability to secure world class C-level speakers at three or less commercial events a year.
- Produce world class ad-boards with a balance of buy and sell side attendees.
- Produce own content and host own interviews/podcasts etc.
- Investigate and generate new topic ideas in alignment with global and regional trends, providing direction to the event content and launch events of scale.
- Develop strong relationships with key stakeholders, shareholders, committee members, advisors, associations, and government representatives.
- Work with internal stakeholders to produce the strategy for future events.
- Manage long term supporters, connect, and build key relationships with new clients, speakers, and media partners.
- Evaluate data and successful promotion of the forums with the marketing team, ensuring all decisions are data led.
- Utilise key project documents during campaigns such as trackers, pipeline reports and sales briefs.
- Write promotional copy for the event programmes.
- Direct the sponsorship team and delegate the sales team, ensuring commercial targets are met and attending external meetings alongside sponsorship managers.
- Excellent management of events onsite, including dealing with speakers and delegates and logistical arrangements to ensure flawless delivery of the event.
Requirements
Knowledge, Skills & Behaviours:
- Fluency in Spanish, both verbally and written, is essential.
- Experience in conference production developing event programmes which deliver both customer engagement and sponsor revenue.
- Ability to look beyond the traditional event industry revenue model and embrace new ideas around revenue generation.
- Ability to identify, establish and maintain relationships, building trust both internally and with external partners, speakers, or sponsors.
- Strong project management skills to ensure smooth execution of events onsite.
- Self-disciplined, motivated, and organised with the ability to meet deadlines, multi-task, and work under pressure.
- Collaborate with the marketing, operations, delegate sales and sponsorship teams on leading the event.
- A proactive, constructive, and solution-focused approach to obstacles.
- Flexibility to travel to events.
Benefits
- 25 days’ holiday plus bank holidays
- End of year wellbeing shutdown (closed for the last week of the year)
- Celebration day off (e.g. birthday, Diwali, Eid, etc)
- Summer Hours in August (3pm finish on Fridays)
- Helping Our World (HOW) Days – one paid day per quarter to carry out charity work
- Pension Scheme
- Private Medical Insurance
- Health Cash Plan
- Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) – a 24/7, 365-day confidential helpline
- Subsidised Café
- Season Ticket Loan
- Cycle to Work Schemes
- Free on-site gym and shower facilities
- Free eyesight tests
- Free flu vaccination – offered on site once a year for all employees
