Conference Manager

Are you interested in shaping the conference programmes for 2 of the leading travel events globally?
 

Would you like to work with high-profile speakers from leading organisations to create an impactful conference experience?
 

About our Team
 

The team are passionate, collaborative, and high-performing, dedicated to the development and growth of these exceptional brands in a booming and vibrant industry. We value creativity, autonomy, and accountability, working together to deliver exceptional conference programmes. The environment is supportive, with a strong focus on teamwork and innovation, ensuring that each member's contributions are valued and impactful.
 

About the Role
 

You will be delivering and managing high-quality conference programmes for the World Travel Market in London and Arabian Travel Market in Dubai. This role involves building and curating content across all theatres, requiring excellent research, communication skills, and commercial acumen. It's an exciting opportunity for an experienced conference producer seeking autonomy and accountability in a creative environment.
 

Responsibilities
 

• Utilising customer insight, needs and behaviours. Using this to develop the content strategy and plan for World Travel Market and Arabian Travel Market.
• Generating high-quality, research-based conference agendas and event formats to meet the needs of different visitor personas/audience segments.
• Identifying, securing and managing high-profile speakers from leading organisations.
• Working with conference sponsors and customers to ensure the objectives of exhibitors and visitors are met through high-profile practitioner presentations.
• Collaborating with the marketing team to support the delivery of the visitor audience. Managing the video archives and creating and promoting high quality conference video content. Leading the delivery of the print event guide.
• Collaborating with the sales team to understand the needs of the exhibitor customer to identify sponsorship and new product opportunities. Supporting sales at client meetings.
• Building and nurturing long-term relationships with the travel community. This includes end-user practitioners, vendors and associations along with internal stakeholders in marketing, sales and operations. Taking a leading role in our conference steering group.
• Managing and analysing event feedback and using data and KPIs to monitor success innovate, develop and improve conference strategies.

Requirements
 

• Have previous conference experience.
• Experience in researching new markets and delivering top-level programmes to tight deadlines.
• Be a creative thinker – recommending new and improved conference structures or models.
• Have excellent business acumen. Demonstrating a desire to create new revenue streams and at the forefront of recommending new conference models.
• Be able to build relationships with your customers internally and externally, ensuring communication is professional, timely and of high-quality.
• Have excellent organisation and multi-tasking skills, with meticulous attention to detail. Be self-motivated with a purposeful approach.
• Have people management skills and be a team-player. Must be able to demonstrate excellent networking skills.
• Have a good understanding of IT and technical research.

Work in a way that works for you
 

We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organisation. We offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance and sabbaticals, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals.
 

• Working remotely from home and the office in a flexible, hybrid arrangement.
• Working flexible hours - flexing the times when you work in the day to help you fit everything in and work when you are the most productive.

Working for you
 

We know that your wellbeing and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:
 

• Generous holiday allowance with the option to buy additional days
• Health screening, eye care vouchers and private medical benefits
• Wellbeing programs
• Life assurance
• Access to a competitive contributory pension scheme
• Save As You Earn share option scheme
• Travel Season ticket loan
• Electric Vehicle Scheme
• Optional Dental Insurance
• Maternity, paternity and shared parental leave
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Access to emergency care for both the elderly and children
• RECARES days, giving you time to support the charities and causes that matter to you
• Access to employee resource groups with dedicated time to volunteer
• Access to extensive learning and development resources
• Access to employee discounts scheme via Perks at Work

About the Business
 

RX is a global leader in events and exhibitions, leveraging industry expertise, data, and technology to build businesses for individuals, communities, and organisations. With a presence in 25 countries across 42 industry sectors, RX hosts approximately 350 events annually. RX is committed to creating an inclusive work environment for all our people. RX empowers businesses to thrive by leveraging data-driven insights and digital solutions. RX is part of RELX, a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers. For more information, visit www.rxglobal.com.
 

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