Senior Conference Producer

The role

We are looking for a commercially minded and ambitious producer to join our B2B events business. You will be working for a company who is highly regarded and a market leader in their industry. Based in Akron and eligible for hybrid remote schedule.

In the role of Senior Conference Producer some of your duties will include:

• Devise high quality conferences by researching and testing ideas and identifying good commercial opportunities.
• Conduct regular desk and phone research to identify market trends, hot topics and conference opportunities.
• Convey compelling new ideas to senior decision makers.
• Acquire senior level speakers from leading industry companies to speaker across a variety of session formats.
• Collaborate with sales and marketing to ensure good lists, support and copy is produced for all events.
• Attend events and run them on the day.
• Work with marketing to ensure all online content is up to date, and high quality to drive interest in the event.
• To work with the event team to ensure cost-effective and high-quality running of conference, with costs maintained within or below budget.
• Input to annual budget planning process, and events list in cooperation with manager.
• Collate detailed project information and drive strategic direction of events in consultation with management.
• Keep up to speed with events industry trends across format, style, technology and make recommendations to the NA events team.
• Develop strategic relationships with key suppliers / stakeholders in industrial sectors to ensure events have increased traction with the target market.
• Regularly submit tested topics ideas and validate them fully when requested. Prepare briefs for Conference Producers where required.
• Mentor and run one-to-one or group training for Conference Producer(s) when required.
  
  

The person

In the Senior Conference Producer role, we require the following skills and experience:

• Experience in conference production and research is required
• Educated to degree level with strong academic background in such areas as journalism, communications or related field
• Strong commercial acumen to identify compelling topics and securing high level speakers
• Existing knowledge of B2B commercial conferences
• Strategic thinking in order to map out future opportunities for new markets
• Ability for regular domestic travel
  
  

The Company

At Smithers the Information Division provides B2B events, market research, strategic and technical consulting globally.

We are renowned throughout numerous industry areas for our quality, high caliber conferences, and our comprehensive and informative market research reports. We offer independent and expert market insight to allow companies to identify opportunities and grow their business.

In addition to offices in the US, UK and Asia, the organization has specialist consultants world-wide.

We actively encourage career development and passionately support those who want to pursue and develop within the Smithers family. We have numerous examples of progression throughout the business and within some of our global businesses are proud that the average length of service amongst employees is a minimum of 10 years.