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The Role: Produce senior-level insurance webinars and events for European and USA markets, with the opportunity to take ownership of the strategic plan for a section of the portfolio

We’re looking for a Senior Conference Producer for a growing team within our insurance division.

You’ll be someone who is confident working with a high degree of autonomy, (and working from home), and you’ll want to take a strategic role in the direction of the team. You’ll be reporting to the Head of Content, and working collaboratively with marketing, sales and operations to project manage conferences and webinars from conception to delivery.

You will be responsible for growing repeat events and launching new ones in the company’s Insurance portfolio. You will be expected to demonstrate strong commercial acumen and creativity in the development of content for a range of products, including in-person conferences and webinars.

Requirements

Key responsibilities:

• Strategy & Management: Work with the MD and Head of Content to play a strategic role in the direction of the team’s portfolio
• Launch Validation: Support the Head of Content to find, develop, and validate new conference ideas, future opportunities, and new markets
• Market Research & Analysis: Carry out in-depth phone based research with senior insurers to obtain detailed insight into industry challenges, hot trends, and audience profiles
• Agenda Development: Translate your research into compelling and commercially viable conference agendas and webinars designed to attract speakers, sponsors and delegates
• Speaker Acquisition: Identify and recruit executive level speakers from leading insurance companies to speak at your conferences and webinars
• Project Management: Work collaboratively with internal teams (marketing, operations, and sales) to ensure that your conferences and webinars are executed smoothly, in time, and on budget
• Content Marketing & Copywriting: Produce compelling content to support lead generation and create copy for websites, email marketing, and social media to maximise delegate engagement
• Sponsor & Stakeholder Management: Work proactively with our commercial partners to develop bespoke content that appeals to their target audience and integrates seamlessly with our brand
• Operations & Onsite Delivery: Play a role in securing suitable conference venues and attend conferences and webinars to ensure excellent delivery and smooth running on the day

Essential skills and competencies:

• 3yrs + experience working in B2B events, with demonstrable experience of growing/launching events
• A 2:1 degree (or equivalent)
• Proven research skills, especially phone-based research
• Commercial acumen—the ability to interpret market dynamics and find ways to monetize conference programmes
• Copywriting—confident at creating copy to support lead generation and delegate engagement
• Excellent interpersonal and relationship management skills, and the ability to get on well with a wide variety of internal and external stakeholders
• Good time management skills, and the ability to manage several tasks concurrently to meet deadlines

Preferred skills/experience (but not essential)

• Experience in Insurtech, Fintech, Financial Services
• Management experience
• Experience at one of the top 5 globally recognised B2B media/event companies

Job Description:

• In consultation with senior management, you will be expected to take full strategic ownership for a section of the portfolio, and you will be tasked with creating a three-year strategic plan to grow the portfolio
• You are required to build up extensive market sector knowledge and industry contacts to facilitate the involvement of the highest quality advisory board members, consultants, and speakers in Newton Media's events' programmes.
• You should constantly be researching industry issues, projects, and personalities to ensure that Newton Media’s events portfolio delivers the most attractive content for prospective delegates and commercial partners
• You should play an active role in identifying new events/product opportunities in the market, and write detailed, senior-level, benefit-led agendas which are carefully targeted to relevant job titles
• In addition to producing events, you will be expected to produce, recruit speakers and write copy to support the promotion of individual sponsored webinars.
• You will work closely with sales colleagues responsible for delegate and commercial partner sales to ensure that programmes provide competitive and attractive content, meeting all development deadlines to better facilitate the sales process.
• You will take responsibility for liaison with commercial partners with regards to the sponsored content sessions, ensuring that sponsored content adds real value for all participants.
• You will support the marketing strategy for events and webinars, and inform decisions on which marketing partners to work with, how to allocate budget, and the format and content of messaging campaigns
• You will spearhead the creation of content to accompany the event, drive traffic, generate leads and further Intelligent Insurer’s brand reputation as a leading provider of relevant content.
• You are expected to present research, ideas, and proposals to the senior management team and play an active role in team discussions, scheduling and joint calls.
• You are required to liaise and collaborate with operations, sales, and marketing teams to ensure successful, profitable events. You must demonstrate an ability to lead and motivate the multi department product team throughout the product development cycle, ensuring that all key targets are met.
• You must ensure that, for each event there is a detailed sales and marketing brief, outlining competitive activity and market opportunities, identifying star speakers and key issues, and listing any relevant contacts for sales or marketing follow-up at the start of the production cycle. This document must be kept up to date as a constant reference point for the wider product team.
• You are expected to maintain close contact with the Chair and all speaker participants, providing detailed content briefings, coordinating pre-event conference calls and meetings to ensure that all participants deliver great content and feel appropriately nurtured by Newton Media as organisers.
• You will work closely with the operations team to ensure the right venues and locations for your events and to drive excellence in customer service for speakers and all event attendees.

Benefits

At Newton Media we publish business-to-business magazines and produce events in the legal, finance and insurance sectors for clients worldwide. We’ve a passion for client-satisfaction and dedication to excellence with ambitions to grow from a current team of 30 people to double the size over the next 2-3 years. Demand for our products means we’re still very much at the beginning of our story as we prepare for the inevitable step-up to medium-sized company over the next few years.

We’ve harnessed our entrepreneurial approach to adapt to the changing environment due to the Covid-19 pandemic and have adopted revolutionary new technology in the publishing and events sector to continue to surprise and wow our clients, enabling them to continue to promote their companies in our safe hands.

Newton Media have adopted a hybrid working policy and we encourage employees to divide their time between home working and office working as they see fit, as long as team objectives are met.

We believe Newton Media is a great place to work. We choose to only employ nice, honest, respectful, willing, hardworking, and reliable individuals who want to have a voice within their organisation and be accountable for their actions. Successful candidates will be provided with opportunities to make a very real difference to the company's future and will subsequently progress their own career in the process. We encourage employees to demonstrate initiative and enterprise. We continue to strive to be the best employer possible by listening to our employees. We seek employee voice by way of surveys, suggestion boxes, ‘big ideas’, and direct questions to senior management at our ‘Ask Me Anything’ stand-ups.

We allow employees to take ownership of their responsibilities, meaning you will be joining a team of determined individuals who fully commit to projects and enjoy being accountable for their success. We show our appreciation for excellent work by way of regular feedback, monthly appreciation awards and encourage peer-to-peer feedback via a ‘thanks’ system.

In addition to the genuine prospect of building a meaningful career, you will be joining a team of smart, friendly people who know how to have fun while working hard and who support each-other to deliver the excellent products we are known for.

Our employees’ wellbeing is of paramount importance and we support this by offering:

Unlimited holiday

Flexible working to encourage a healthy work/life balance

Home working

Employee assistance programme

GP Anytime

Online health assessments

Cashback on health and wellbeing treatments

Perks member discounts

Mental health and resilience e-learning

Celebrate your birthday with a paid day off

We choose to reward our staff with generous remuneration packages, along with an employer/employee contributory pension scheme, interest free season ticket loan, and cycle to work scheme. Should the worst happen whilst you are employed by us, we will ensure your loved one doesn’t suffer the burden of an uncertain financial future by way of a death in service insurance policy of £200,000.

All employees will receive a big Newton Media welcome on their first day with an introduction to all departments and a team lunch to get to know your peers. The onboarding experience will continue throughout your first week, with more in-depth team introductions, so you understand who everyone is, what they do and how they fit in and who you need to go to if you need help. We will ensure you have all the equipment you need to do your job.

We encourage our employees to develop their careers with us as we grow as a company. We provide on the job training, access to professional qualifications and targeted training courses. We love to promote from within and are very open to changes of role and will always encourage employees to apply internally for new roles. We provide employees with a comprehensive career development plan and review process and opportunities for overseas travel. We also offer a ‘finder’s fee’ to any employee that recommends a friend to the company that is successfully recruited and retained.

We are an equal opportunities employer and have policies and procedures in place to protect all staff. We are allies to all diverse communities and constantly seek to learn, understand, and improve our diversity and inclusion policy.

We work with local charities by way of fundraising events and encouraging paid volunteering days. Our local charities of 2022 are the Bromley Food Bank and MIND Bromley.