Event Director - Healthcare / Compliance
Hybrid Role
Perm - £45,000 - £55,000 + 20% annual bonus
Why we want you.
Are you a strong and progressive event director with experience producing commercially successful events? Do you have knowledge of the global insurance and / or compliance market? Also have a passion for talking to customers to enable you to create engaging events that regularly exceed company targets and increase customer satisfaction?
If yes - then this is the role for you!
Responsibilities:
As an event director for the companies leading brands within Healthcare or Compliance , you will be producing commercial events, taking the overall lead on the end-to-end project management. Through a research-led approach, you will be producing events that include conferences, summits, congress, awards and webinars.
You will work alongside and effectively with the editorial, marketing, operations, and sales teams to ensure the events achieve their goals and targets and meet the needs of the target audience and sponsors. You will contribute to new ideas that help further commercial growth on your events and identify new potential launch events, developing validation skills and building business cases
Qualifications:
Our client are passionate about supporting colleagues to develop their skills but to be successful in this job you really do need to already be able to tick most of these boxes...
- A few years of commercial (B2B) conference production experience is needed
- Educated to degree level or equivalent experience
- Sales CRM (SalesForce, MS Dynamics or similar) but not essential
- Strong qualitative and quantitative research skills; analytical; confident and keen to be on the telephone
- Project management skills
- Excellent interpersonal and communications skills
- A strong copy writer & able to communicate an effective value proposition and customer benefits
- Good eye for business; results driven
- High standards, structured and organised, but also flexible, with good time management
- Clear understanding of critical metrics
- Good understanding of the commercial business practices that underpin conferences, a strong commercial awareness and a clear comprehension of profit and loss/basic business principles
You need to be the kind of person who is…
- Enthusiastic, high-reaching, and committed to a career in events
- A great communicator who inspires and influences others
- Results orientated with strong business acumen and attention to detail
- Highly organised and rational
- A team player who is good at collaborating but who is equally capable of working independently.
Handle actively welcomes applicants from under-represented backgrounds - we pride ourselves on attracting the best talent for every opportunity through a commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion.
