Conference Portfolio Manager

Up to £55,000 + Bonus + Benefits

London (hybrid office x2) + International Travel

My client have a very exciting opportunity for an experienced Portfolio Manager from the production space who is seeking to quickly scale their own portfolio and team on a series of international conferences.

The successful candidate will: Drive the overall profitability of P&L(s) within the business. You’ll have multiple P+L responsibility to both generate new launches, as well as grow established repeat events, the portfolio sits t £1 million with a view of growing to 5 million.

This is a cross-functional role that blends market analysis, event product development, stakeholder engagement, and commercial growth delivery. You will translate market intelligence into compelling event propositions that drive delegate growth, sponsorship yield, and brand differentiation.

Responsibilities include:

• Accountable for delivering the yearly commercial result and budgeted product load
• High level of tactical event execution with strategic direction
• Robust seed idea generation and validation to create more product opportunities.
• Commercial & Performance Ownership
• Market Intelligence & Stakeholder Engagement

Attributes

• 4 + years’ experience in b2b conference programming
• Experience in the production of complex event programmes and managing a wide roster of executive speakers
• Experience in project managing events and motivating cross-functional teams
• Proven success in growing event brands commercially and strategically.
• Demonstratable leadership and advanced project management skills to influence commercial results of your products
• Experience of strategic portfolio development and/or new event idea validation with commercial viability
• Excellent stakeholder management with communication and persuasion skills
• A natural entrepreneur who is interested in combining research and advance business skills to have true ownership of your conference products’ financials and commercial trajectory

Interested? Please send CV’s to dan@mediasearchinc.co.uk in the first instance