Conference Marketing Coordinator

Department: Marketing
Department detail: Conference Content
Location: London with hybrid working
Position type: Full-time; permanent  

About the Team

The conference content team research, create and deliver agendas for 8 to 10 industry leading events around the world each year. Events range from 200 up to over 100,000 attendees and range in complexity and expectations. The delivery and organisation of these events is crucial to the attendee, exhibitor and speaker experience. The conference content team plays a major role in delivering the GSMA’s premium portfolio of events. 

The team environment ranges from working with a small team on smaller events, to working with 30 to 40 people on larger events. 

What the hiring manager says

“The role provides the opportunity to join a team that plays a key role in planning and developing the world’s leading trade shows, among other premium events spread across the globe. Events are by their nature full of hard deadlines, and we often work at a fast pace both in the lead up and on site at events. 
The team work very closely together and teamwork is critical when onsite at events, due to the pressure and live nature of the work. A positive can-do attitude and good interpersonal skills are therefore crucial, along with excellent organisational skills and calmness under pressure.”

Nick Spencer, Head of Marketing – Outreach

About the Role

The role of Conference Marketing Coordinator will be responsible for keeping the team of conference content managers ticking. A key link between the content and production team, this role will be responsible for ensuring the team are on track to meet event deadlines, reporting on the latest stats, managing speaker logistics, Content Management Systems (CMS) across all events, speaker enquiries and communication pre and post event. This is a hands-on role which will suit someone who is highly organised with attention to detail, excellent at Excel and enjoys being part of a team who work hard but always with a smile. 

About You

•    You have a good understanding of Excel - experience in CMS a big plus
•    You will be deadline driven with an eye for detail
•    You have the ability to remain calm under pressure 
•    You will be highly organised and able to juggle multiple projects 
•    You enjoy events ensuring a high-quality delivery of our conferences onsite
•    You will be a real team player with a great sense of humour!   

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What We Offer

Working at the GSMA offers you unparalleled access to the mobile industry. We offer a chance to truly shape the direction of mobile, whatever your role. By joining the GSMA, you will be exposed to a fast-paced rapidly evolving environment, working on global solutions, genuinely fascinating and industry-changing projects and a stimulating and dynamic environment designed to enable you to flourish.

In addition to architect-designed offices and competitive compensation, our benefits include fantastic learning & development opportunities, generous holiday allowances, four additional days off for professional development and many others.

To learn more about the GSMA, visit our career site, our LinkedIn page and our Twitter page.

Being You at the GSMA

We care deeply about diversity, equity and inclusivity and aspire to be the best at it. Your well-being and work/life balance is important, so flexi-time and remote working is available to all staff. We're keen to ensure everyone is equal, represented and connected so we particularly encourage applications from all demographics. The sucess of the GSMA year on year will continue to be contributed by people from all walks of life.

GSMA Values

Our values not only drive our culture – they shape how we work and interact inside and outside our global organisation.

Passionately driven

We approach everything we do with unparalleled capability, tenacity and commitment, knowing that the challenging scale, pace and complexity of our work is what leads to its world-changing impact.

Insightful leaders

We continually develop and engage our expertise, insight and creativity so that we’re always ready to respond to the changing landscape with authority, agility and nuance.

Stronger together

We lean on each other so the industry can lean on us, embracing our diversity by actively seeking out perspectives and skill sets beyond our own, fuelling each other’s successes and constantly asking how we can help.

Underpinning our values is our collective mindset to show up purposefully as good human beings every day, in every situation. When we’re at our best – we are collaborative, considerate and compassionate to others, and we create a safe space for one another to thrive, assuming positive intent in our colleagues. And if we aren’t at our best and the pressure is on – we feel free to be ourselves but still remain curious, lean into the tough stuff and we are always respectful to others and accountable for the part we play.