Freelance Conference Producer

**Freelance Conference Producer**

**The role**

We are looking for a commercially minded Freelance Conference Producer to support our friendly and successful **European events team**.

In the role of Freelance Conference Producer some of your tasks will include:

- Research, content and programme development
- Conduct desk and phone research to identify market trends and develop commercially viable conference programmes tailored to the needs of the industry
- Identify and acquire senior level speakers for the events and workshops
- Write engaging conference agendas
- Create briefs for sales and marketing
- To work with the events team to ensure cost effective and high quality running of conference, with costs maintained within or below budget
- Responsible for the commercial performance of your events
- Conveying compelling new topic ideas to senior decision makers
- Attend Smithers events and run them on the day
- Devising high quality conferences by researching and testing ideas and identifying good commercial opportunities
- Input to annual budget planning process, and events list in cooperation with Head of Production.
- Travel to the events you produce, this will include locations such as - **Amsterdam, Barcelona, Munich, Berlin**.

**The person**

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

- Previous production experience is essential
- Persuasive and able to convey and articulate complex concepts
- Highly inquisitive approach to research and analysis
- Strong commercial acumen to identify compelling topics, themes and speakers
- Ability to regularly travel in Europe

**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 calibre 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 organisation 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.

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