Senior Conference Producer - Launch Events

Senior Conference Producer - Launch Events

London - Hybrid - Travel

Base Salary up to £60,000 (DOE) + Commission + Benefits

This is a role for a conference producer who gets genuinely excited about a blank page. You'll be at the forefront of identifying, validating, and launching new B2B conference products - owning the full process from initial market research through to a commercially successful live event.

This isn't about maintaining an inherited portfolio. It's about building something from scratch, backing your instincts with rigorous research, and having the conviction to take a new event to market.

The Role

Research & Validation

• Identify opportunities across target sectors through deep market research and competitor analysis
• Conduct extensive telephone-based research with senior industry professionals to validate demand, test topics, and stress-test commercial viability
• Build and leverage a senior advisory network to sense-check ideas and establish credibility in new markets
• Present well-reasoned recommendations for new event launches to senior management, backed by clear market evidence

Programme Development

• Design intellectually compelling, commercially viable conference agendas that resonate with senior audiences
• Identify and secure high-profile, hard-to-reach industry speakers who give your event genuine authority
• Stay ahead of industry trends, emerging challenges, and market shifts to ensure programmes feel fresh, timely, and essential

Commercial & Project Management

• Own the full production lifecycle of each new event from concept to delivery
• Work closely with sponsorship sales and delegate sales teams from the earliest stages to ensure events are built with commercial success in mind
• Manage budgets, timelines, and KPIs with precision throughout the production cycle
• Collaborate with marketing teams to develop compelling positioning and messaging for new events
• Attend and manage your events

Portfolio Growth

• Grow successful launches into recurring annual events
• Continuously assess the market for adjacent opportunities and new event concepts
• Act as an internal champion for new ideas - bringing energy, evidence, and commercial thinking to every proposal

About You

• 3+ years' experience as a B2B conference producer with a strong, demonstrable track record of success
• Experience taking new conferences from concept to delivery - you're the kind of producer who can smell a gap in the market and back it up with evidence.
• Exceptional telephone-based research skills with the ability to engage and extract insight from senior professionals
• Commercially minded - you understand what makes an event viable and how to position it for sponsors and delegates alike
• A creative thinker with the rigour of a project manager - you can generate bold ideas and deliver them on time and on budget
• Confident communicator, comfortable presenting ideas internally and engaging with C-suite executives externally
• Self-motivated and entrepreneurial - you're energised by building something new rather than maintaining the status quo
• Collaborative by nature, with high personal standards and a genuine passion for producing outstanding content

Why Join?

• A rare opportunity to focus almost entirely on new event development - with the full support of an established, high-performing business behind you
• Outstanding culture - ambitious, collaborative, stable.
• Clear career development with real investment in your growth
• Hybrid working and international travel
• Regular team socials

You can apply via the link or contact Helen Yarrow at Jackson Barnes Recruitment in confidence if you would like more information.

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About Jackson Barnes Recruitment

Jackson Barnes Recruitment delivers international recruitment solutions within the events, media, and publishing sectors. Jackson Barnes recruits Graduate to MD level in the following positions:

• Researcher
• Conference producer
• Event Marketing
• Sales - delegate sales, sponsorship sales & Event Business Development
• Event Manager
• Editor

We recruit for organisations in the UK and overseas, with success in London, Dubai, New York, Singapore and Australia.