Senior Conference Producer, Reuters Events

Senior Conference Producer - Reuters Events

This position will be based in London (UK).

Looking for that next step in your conferencing career? Want to work on some of the largest events in our energy portfolio and deliver key growth initiatives?

Reuters Events is looking for a commercially-driven and strategically-minded Senior Conference Producer to join our Energy portfolio and deliver large-scale international events.

Our energy portfolio content spans hydrogen, renewables, oil & gas (upstream and downstream), energy transition and nuclear sectors. It’s grown considerably as a portfolio in recent years, as it continuously expands and adapts to reflect real-time changes in investment, policy and energy producer priorities.

Our events attract CEOs and executives from major energy companies such as from BP, Dominion Energy, PSEG, Southern Company and Albemarle, and sponsorship from top vendors and consultancies including Baker Hughes, SLB, EY, Deloitte, Chevron and many more. Reuters Editorial are engaged in many onstage discussions, with breaking news being a regular occurrence across our flagship events.

About the Role

As a Senior Conference Producer, you will:

• Lead on the commercial success of major industry conferences in the energy sector, including hitting quality, timelines, revenue and attendance targets and setting sales and marketing strategy for the entire project.
• You will be researching Energy markets, getting to grips with key business issues, developing conference agendas, and conducting high profile marketing campaigns.
• Use your commercial acumen and strategic mindset to contribute to future strategy and business planning.
• You will likely be asked to mentor other Conference Producers including deadline management, monitoring event performance, planning (strategic, financial and operational) and providing guidance and coaching.
• You will oversee quality control on products, marketing and client relations.
• You will be involved in central projects that are core to driving the business forward.

About You

To be our Senior Conference Producer, you will most likely:

• Have demonstrable experience of working at a commercial B2B conference company, ideally in a Producer role.
• Have a keen interest in the energy sector, with an understanding of energy transition initiatives.
• Have a track record of commercial and sales success, excellent project and time management skills, and the ability to work in changing circumstances.
• Have managed entire projects at scale and/or grown commercial events/products from scratch.
• Be commercially driven first and foremost – you should understand the commercial drivers behind our customers' decisions, as our job is to help them make smarter ones!
• Be someone with the ability to identify new and interesting business trends coupled with the drive to develop great events that senior business people can’t afford to miss.
• Communication, research, and analytical skills are essential, along with an entrepreneurial flair and a target-driven mindset.

Please Note: Complete applications must be submitted by 23:59 on Sunday 27th October 2024.

What's in it For You?

You will join our inclusive culture of world-class talent, where we are committed to your personal and professional growth through:

• Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.
• Wellbeing: Comprehensive benefit plans; flexible and supportive benefits for work-life balance: flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days Off; work from another location for up to a total of 8 weeks in a year, 4 of those weeks can be out of the country and the remaining in the country, Headspace app subscription; retirement, savings, tuition reimbursement, and employee incentive programs; resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
• Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for equality, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, work-life balance, and more.
• Learning & Development: LinkedIn Learning access; internal Talent Marketplace with opportunities to work on projects cross-company; Ten Thousand Coffees Thomson Reuters café networking.
• Social Impact: Ten employee-driven Business Resource Groups; two paid volunteer days annually; Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) initiatives for local and global impact.
• Purpose Driven Work: We have a superpower that we’ve never talked about with as much pride as we should – we are one of the only companies on the planet that helps its customers pursue justice, truth and transparency.

Do you want to be part of a team helping re-invent the way knowledge professionals work? At Thomson Reuters, we’ve been doing just that for almost 160 years. Our industry-leading products and services include highly specialized information-enabled software and tools for legal, tax, accounting and compliance professionals combined with the world’s most global news services – Reuters. We help these professionals do their jobs better, creating more time for them to focus on the things that matter most: advising, advocating, negotiating, governing and informing.

We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments that celebrate diversity and inclusion.

Accessibility

As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.