Junior Conference Producer (JR101755)

At Clarion, our people are at the absolute heart of what we do. We’re proud that our core values of PASSION, CARE, IMAGINATION, and TRUST define the way we carry out our work across all of our exhibitions and conferences.

If you share our values and want to be a part of a successful, dynamic, and creative global business, then we want to hear from you.

The Opportunity:

Clarion’s Digital Marketing Division is the home of market-leading brands Affiliate Summit & Creator Economy Live. This role will work across the portfolio but primarily on Creator Economy Live.

Clarion’s Digital Marketing Portfolio run the largest affiliate, partnership and influencer marketing events in the world attracting thousands of advertisers, brands, networks, agencies and affiliates from the US and around the globe.

Affiliate Summit runs twice a year on the East and West Coast (hello, NYC and Vegas). In 2023 we launched Creator Economy Live – the first and largest event to focus on influencer marketing for enterprise brands – due to the success of its launch, we are now launching on the East Coast in the Big Apple!

We don’t run your typical conference, so if you’re looking for a bunch of folks in grey suits, we might not be for you.  We bring together SMEs, bloggers, influencers and the world’s largest ecommerce brands.

Our Vegas show sells out every year, and as EVERYBODY is now shopping online, we continue to grow at double digit rates.

The ideal candidate has some experience in commercial conference production. They also have an interest in the digital marketing industry. This person is social and confident and able to speak with high-profile speakers and c-level stakeholders. They are creative, detailed-oriented, and organized and keen to put these skills into place at industry-leading events around the world.

We are seeking a highly organized individual with proven experience in internal stakeholder management.

The candidate will be passionate about diversity and inclusion. We’ve have been leading the way in the events world by setting representation quotas for each event and this role will play a key part in ensuring that our events and content program are inclusive.

Key Responsibilities:

Industry Research & Insight

• Develop strong market knowledge for the digital marketing industry and creator economy.
• Build relationships with industry stakeholders, in the digital marketing and influencer marketing space.
• Conduct and document regular industry and customer research projects – ensuring that all research can be presented to the team so that it can influence marketing, sales, operations and customer success strategies.
• Use business intelligence, customer feedback and insight to suggest and implement new conference program ideas and to assess the success of the conference agenda.
• Attend industry events for relationship building and market insight.
• Continued learning about the marketing industry through attending events, reading, listening to podcasts and webinars.

Event & Content Programming

• Programming and content production for the event agenda including but not limited to tracks, sessions, workshops, roundtables, and demo stages.
• Develop new and innovative programming formats and ways of presenting content to stay ahead of other events.
• Create compelling agenda sessions that fit with our tone of voice and appeal to audience demographics.
• Create commercial attractive agendas that create sponsorship opportunities.
• Manage and streamline programming processes to drive collaboration and efficiency.

Speaker Management

• Recruit and confirm high-profile speakers by using speaker outreach tactics and managing inbound applications.
• Improve and update programming guidelines and rules for submissions and partners.
• Work with speakers to develop their presentations and ensure key takeaways are delivered.
• Manage speakers and content tracks on site at events, ensuring the programme is delivered as planned.
• Manage logistics with keynote speakers and ensure contract terms are adhered to.

Digital Content

• Create articles, webinars, blog and roundtables that can be used to market the events that are tied into the agenda and customer research.
• Work closely with digital content exec and co-ordinate digital content creation through freelancers and speakers – managing their deadlines.

Knowledge, Skills & Behaviours:

• Content production experience on commercial events.
• Meticulous attention to detail.
• An interest in the digital marketing industry is essential.
• Excellent and proactive communicator – great verbal and written communications skills that can translate content strategies in a simple way to a range of stakeholders and team members. We are a global business, and your colleagues are often not in the same physical location so this is a must!
• Be a critical thinker with strong problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work flexibly and travel where necessary as our events may require either calls in other time zones.
• Be extremely organized; our events can have over 100 speakers.
• Strong multitasker – able to successfully reach multiple deadlines at once.
• The ability to write and edit copy.

About Clarion Events

Clarion Events is one of the world’s leading event organisers, producing and delivering innovative and market-leading events since 1947. (https://clarionevents.com/welcome)

Clarion Events embrace diversity and equal opportunities in all that we do. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. The more inclusive we are, the better our work will be.

Clarion is private equity backed and owned by Blackstone. Blackstone is one of the world’s leading global investment funds, investing capital for the long term in order to build successful, resilient businesses. (https://www.blackstone.com/)

Our purpose is to deliver exceptional customer outcomes and experiences, by making every connection count.

Our vision is we want every one of our products to be a market leader in customer satisfaction and delight.

• 25 days’ holiday plus bank holidays
• End of year wellbeing shutdown (closed for the last week of the year)
• Celebration day off (e.g. birthday, Diwali, Eid, etc)
• Summer Hours in August (3pm finish on Fridays)
• Helping Our World (HOW) Days – one paid day per quarter to carry out charity work
• Pension Scheme
• Private Medical Insurance
• Health Cash Plan
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) – a 24/7, 365-day confidential helpline
• Subsidised Café
• Season Ticket Loan
• Cycle to Work Schemes
• Free on-site gym and shower facilities
• Free eyesight tests
• Free flu vaccination – offered on site once a year for all employees