Conference Manager
Full time
na RELX Group plc
no
Saudi Arabia
Publicado em February 16, 2025
Detalhes do emprego
About our Team RX Global is a global events organizer, creating market-leading events that bring together industry professionals from around the world. Our Middle East offices are at the heart of the region's dynamic business landscape, delivering innovative and impactful events that connect businesses, drive growth, and shape the future. About the Role Designs, develops and implements marketing programs and/or pricing strategies to support the organization's products, services or market sector. Uses specific marketing strategies and media (e.g., print, broadcast, digital) to launch and position products and services in a sector. Responsibilities
Industry Research and Relationships
- Research : Conduct in-depth research via telephone calls, desk research, face-to-face meetings, surveys, collaboration with editorial teams, partners and Advisory Councils to drive content development.
- Organise and host relevant advisory councils and meetings with the sole purpose of garnering greater insight and ratifying our proposed themes, sessions and key speakers.
- Create a pool of industry experts to regularly call upon to deepen knowledge to ensure the programme is of the correct level of intellect and information required.
- Engage with analysts, PR companies, monitor competitor and non-competitor events to generate new ideas and formats, as well as stay ahead of the competition.
Conference Production
- Strategy & Planning : Utilise customer insight, needs and behaviours to develop the content strategy and plan for the event.
- Production : Generate high-quality, research-based conference agendas and event formats to meet the needs of different visitor personas/audience segments.
- Speaker acquisition : Identify, secure and manage high-profile speakers from leading end-user organisations.
- Sponsor account management : Manage any exhibitor call for papers process and work collaboratively with conference sponsors to ensure the objectives of both exhibitors and visitors are met through sponsored content.
- Marketing : Collaborate with the marketing team to support the delivery of the visitor audience by producing a highly topical conference agenda and a strong speaker line-up.
- Content creation : Contribute to the content marketing strategy and tactics for the event by identifying opportunities for compelling content e.g., videos, polls, speaker interviews, speaker blogs etc. Collaborate with the marketing team to deliver this.
- Sales : Collaborate with the sales team to understand the needs of the exhibitor customer to identify sponsorship and new product opportunities. Support sales at client meetings.
- Partnership and Stakeholder management : Build and nurture long-term relationships with their event’s community including end-user practitioners, vendors and service providers, associations, government, law enforcement along with internal stakeholders in marketing, sales and operations.
- Project management : Accountable for developing the production timeline to ensure conference programmes are delivered on time and working with the head of marketing and marketing manager to ensure delivery of content plan.
- Innovation and analysis : Manage and analyse event feedback and using data and KPIs to monitor success innovate, develop and improve conference strategies.
- Event Management and Administration : Maintaining fully updated programmes, speaker lists and speaker biographies. Uploading and updating all conference sessions and speakers on the websites. Managing speakers’ budget. Onsite management and ownership of the running order, schedule and agenda of the conference.
- Have a Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business, or a related field.
- Have demonstrable 5+ years experience as a Conference Manager.
- Have excellent communication and presentation skills.
- 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.
- Family Medical and Air Ticket.
- Competitive Bonus.
- 25 days paid annual leave.
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