Senior Conference Producer

  • Full-time

Company Description

Unleash Your People! We are passionate creative people on a mission to inspire and transform the world of work & technology. Our shared vision is that by 2020 UNLEASH will be the platform of choice on the Future of Work across the globe. Shows that attract the world’s leading entrepreneurs, visionaries, disrupters and doers including Sir Richard Branson, Arianna Huffington, Sir Ken Robinson, Rachel Botsman, Gary Vaynerchuk and many more. Over 55% of our community are CEO’s, CPOs, EVPs, and SVPs of the most exciting brands and leading organizations from +120 countries worldwide.

UNLEASH (previously HR Tech World) is much more than just business events; we are in the change the world for the greater good business. Our mission: Unleash Your People!

The world’s fastest growing community on the future of work, UNLEASH is ranked as the largest Corporate Network focused on the interface between people, technology, organizations and the future. Past and future show locations include Amsterdam, London, San Francisco, Paris and Las Vegas and have welcomed over 9,000 attendees in 2017. In 2018, UNLEASH will scale significantly to become the worlds leading marketplace and community on the future of the workplace and technology.

Job Description

This is not an Event planner position.

We are looking for creative, ambitious and intellectually-curious professional to join our growing team as a Senior Conference Producer. If your background lies within technology, future of work, leadership, human resources, global business or the world of startups, and you're genuinely passionate about those topics, this opportunity might be the perfect choice for you! 

Your day-to-day responsibilities will include but not be limited to:

  • Conducting telephone and in-person research to develop and write a multi-streamed conference agenda
  • Identifying, inviting and confirming speakers and thought leaders, liaising with them throughout the time leading up to the conference
  • Establishing and maintaining relationships with key professionals, industry leaders, C-level
    executives through the year
  • Writing and developing marketing and sales collaterals to assist those departments
  • Attending and overseeing our conferences, providing onsite logistical & operational assistance, support and trouble-shooting and ensuring the conferences run smoothly 

Qualifications

This role will suit an experienced and high performing Conference/Tradeshow Producer looking to work on large scale events and have more autonomy, leadership and responsibility within their next role. Experience in Events/Tradeshows is mandatory.

Please apply if you have:

  • 3+ years of production experience and ideally experience of large-scale events
  • Excellent research and strategic thinking skills in order to map out and identify new topic opportunities in the market
  • Ability to make strong commercial decisions based on research
  • Ability to build relationships with essential enterprise leaders
  • Excellent project management, communication & organisation skills to drive our business forward in meeting deadlines and financial goals
  • Problem solving skills / conflict resolution to solve external conference related challenges
  • Top notch organisational and time management skills

Additional Information

UNLEASH offers the best incentives and compensation package in the region, as well as an awesome environment to work, plenty of motivation and purpose, and growth opportunities. UNLEASH will probably become your most culturally diverse place of work with colleagues from US, Canada, South America, Asia and across Europe who work together to change the Future of Work, blazing the trail for others to follow.

The role provides a great platform to quickly build lifelong skills for career success, enabling you to grow your own professional network, and meet some of the most Influential thinkers and leaders on earth that include friends like Sir Richard Branson, Gary Vaynerchuk, Martha Lane Fox, Sir Ken Robinson.

You will also enjoy a fun atmosphere - we work smarter and we play harder!