Senior Conference Producer

Fastmarkets is an independent commodity pricing and information organisation with over 600 staff. We are fuelled by values that bring us all together and are united by a collective passion to make a difference. We are supported by a working model that is based on a hybrid approach that allows each of us to balance home and office working while encouraging effective collaboration and accountability.

Fastmarkets is the most trusted Price Reporting Agency (PRA) in the metals, mining, agriculture, forest products, and energy transition markets. Our price data, forecasts, and market analyses give our customers strategic advantage in complex, volatile, often opaque markets. Our events provide forums for market participants to come together, trade, and talk through the critical issues of our times.

We are making a difference. Fastmarkets works to create transparent commodity markets through our reliable and trusted price data and market intelligence. The markets we serve are central to how economies work and are essential for our lives. By doing this, Fastmarkets helps our customers build a more sustainable world. We are built on a 130-year foundation while bringing a digital platform to market, combining the currency of trust with the power of digital.

Most importantly, we are fuelled by our teams that, across the globe, make the amazing possible. With a deep sense of purpose and belonging, we are building an extraordinary future – together. If you would like to help build the future, we hope you will join us on our journey.

Fastmarkets is owned by global private equity firm Astorg, a specialist investor in healthcare, software, technology, business services and technology-based industrial companies.

The Role

This is an exciting opportunity to join a highly successful event team in a fast growth global events business. You will be responsible for developing the best-in-class content, agendas and customer experience across all your events. You will set the vision, commercial value proposition and strategy for each event based on deep customer insight, providing customer led rationales for vision and design principles.

At the event level you will deliver highly differentiated and stand out agendas, confirm the best speakers, create imaginative and immersive experiences, ensuring in-depth customer and industry research is conducted and used to inform the overall event design.

You will be embedded in your industries and with your customers year-round, being a recognised industry figure with a strong network of connections across key influencers, partners, government bodies, organisations and thought leaders to ensure your events are seen as not only must attend but also co-created by and for the industries and customers they serve.

Your role will involve collaborating with the events and wider Fastmarkets teams to ensure your vision is aligned and the intended customer experience are stand out both in-person and online. You will work closely with editorial to co-create agendas and elevate our experts and authority, with marketing provide clear, differentiated, and actionable value propositions and inputs to key messaging, with sales provide guidance on maximising revenue opportunities whilst ensuring the integrity of your event is retained and work closely with operations to ensure the event achieves its profitability goals.

Principal Accountabilities

Taking ownership of your entire portfolio of events to accelerate strategic growth and develop long-term business plans. Building an engaged year-round community through curated content that culminates in the must-attend and stand out in-person event. Driving the commercial value proposition and results for your portfolio, delivering key initiatives with detailed planning.

Customer Research & Insight

Conduct thorough customer research with event target market to shape the event's commercial value proposition, agenda, and design

Utilise customer insights and industry research to create audience market maps, identify pain points that align with the overall event design and agenda

Record insights and market research to create a shared central repository all producers can access

Agenda Development & Strategy

Deliver differentiated agendas with industry leaders as speakers, ensuring they surpass competitor offerings

Set up and manage customer advisory boards for events

Develop a clear vision and strategy for the event and communicate to stakeholders in a timely manner

Speaker Recruitment & Management

Recruit outstanding speakers managing them throughout the event cycle

Ensure over 40% of speakers are new to the event providing a competitive edge

Deliver all agendas and speakers within strict project timelines

Achieve all speaker targets including DE&I goals

Commercial Success & Partnerships

Support securing key partnerships and sponsor relationships to enhance commercial success

Monitor, contribute, ideate and problem-solve to achieve overall event objectives and revenue / profit targets

Customer Metrics & Research

Ensure events meet or exceed Fastmarkets event customer metric scores

Conduct robust customer research for strategy and event design, maintaining updated records

Industry Relationships & Mentorship

Develop and maintain relationships with industry players and associations

Mentor fellow producers to build knowledge and share best practices

Develop a in-market 365 content-led activities to engage your community and key relationships year-round

Post-Event Insights & Analysis

Own pre, at, and post-event customer insight, including post-event surveys and analysis

Communication & Coordination

Provide clear briefings to sales, marketing, operations and wider stakeholder teams, ensuring alignment and buy-in

Conduct effective project meetings, utilise project management sheets and adhere to timelines

Competitive Landscape & Alignment

Keep a comprehensive competitive matrix, stay informed about opportunities and threats, and understand industry changes

Align events with wider Fastmarkets divisional objectives and prices

Event Briefs & Marketing Support

Write clear, actionable event briefs for marketers and salespeople

Provide inputs for website content and support with key messaging for promotional activities

On-Site Oversight & Innovation

Oversee events on-site acting as the "face of the event"

Generate ideas for new events and features within the portfolio

Drive innovation in event experience design based on your deep understanding of your customers motivations and goals

Launching new events & content-led initiatives

Validating and launching new large scale events

Creating new content-led initiatives to engage your community year-round as well as strategically add new revenue streams

Developing commercial add-ons such as awards, focus days and briefings to increase our market position and create additional value

We recruit talented, dynamic people with diverse backgrounds and experiences, all united by a belief in our mission to provide the world’s leading and most trusted price reporting, events, and intelligence service for the markets we serve. We’re proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to creating a fully inclusive workplace, where everyone feels able to participate and contribute meaningfully

If you are open-minded, curious, resilient, solutions-oriented and committed to promoting equality, then read on...

KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

The individual will be highly motivated, driven and have a passion to be part of a fast-paced, successful team. Being a strong team player is important and someone who is happy to work flexibly

The ideal candidate must have a Bachelor's degree (2:1 or above) or equivalent, 3–5 years producing and managing commercial large-scale events. Experience and exposure to commodities or financial sectors is desirable

Self-motivated Professional

Proven experience in a dynamic, fast-paced environment

Project Management

Proficient in managing complex projects with multiple stakeholders whilst meeting timelines

Tenacity & Ambition

Demonstrates perseverance and a goal-driven approach

Innovative & Entrepreneurial

Exhibits the ability to reimagine and reinvent events to foster growth

Highly Organised

Efficient and well-organised in handling responsibilities and an eye for detailed planning

Collaborative Team Player

Proven ability to collaborate seamlessly within a team

Clear Communicator

Articulates a defined vision and commercial value proposition for events, ensuring stakeholder alignment

Research & Synthesis

Excellent research skills, adept at distilling vast information into easy-to-understand event concepts, experience design and compelling agendas

Effective Communication

Proficient in conducting research calls, face-to-face meetings and strong written communication

Digital Event Design

Experience in designing digital events to enhance sponsorship opportunities

End-to-End Event Strategy

Competent in developing and delivering an event strategy from conceptualisation through development to successful delivery

Networking Prowess & Presence

Excellent networker with ability to build strong relationships internally and externally, becoming the go-to person for their events

If you're excited about the role but your experience, skills or qualifications don't perfectly align, we encourage you to apply anyway.