Conference Producer

1 Month ago • 1-2 Years • Product Management

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Conference Producer at Smarter Shows, you will play a key role in the company, collaborating with various departments and leading the understanding of your markets to develop conference programs, webinars, and other content. You will be responsible for conducting research calls, analyzing delegate lists, and providing feedback on marketing materials. The role requires excellent project management skills, writing engaging content, building relationships with industry figures, and delivering events on-site. This dynamic role involves working with international experts and contributing to the development of meaningful conversations and networking opportunities.
Must have:
  • 1-2 years in conference production or similar role.
  • A minimum 2:1 university degree in a relevant field.
  • Analytical skills for understanding and presenting data.
  • Love of language and strong writing skills.
  • Results-driven and adaptable to change.
  • Efficient, meticulous, and detail-oriented work ethic.
Good to have:
  • Knowledge of data analytics tools like Excel.
Perks:
  • Freedom & flexibility
  • Great community with social events.
  • Opportunity for volunteering with charity match funding.
  • Career development through training and mentoring.
  • 25 days annual leave, rising to 27 days after two years, plus a birthday leave day.
  • Flexible personal benefits and private medical cover.
  • ShareMatch scheme.
  • Strong wellbeing support.
  • Recognition for great work.
  • Opportunity to collaborate with teams around the world.

Job Details

Company Description

Informa Markets, a division within Informa, creates global platforms for industries. We organise over 500 large-scale branded and transaction-oriented events in 14 specialist markets. These are typically not-tobe-missed annual events where buyers and sellers build relationships, see and show products and do business.

We also provide year-round online platforms where companies showcase their businesses and products and buyers conduct research, generating valuable leads, and we provide data and digital content that supports the flow of knowledge and transactions in markets.

We’re part of Informa, a global business with a network of trusted brands in specialist markets across more than 30 countries, and a member of the FTSE 100 who are #3 in Glassdoor's Best Places to Work 2025 UK list.

Job Description

Smarter Shows is a division of Informa Markets – Engineering, with a regional head office in Brighton, UK. The Smarter Shows portfolio includes a number of market-leading advanced manufacturing expo events with affiliated free-to-attend conferences, located primarily in North America and Germany.

Reporting to our Conference Production Manager, as one of our conference producers you’ll play a central role within the company, collaborating across all departments and taking the lead in understanding your markets and developing conference programmes, webinars, and other content for the brands you will be looking after.

During a typical day, you could be conducting research calls with senior executives of the world’s most prominent companies, analysing delegate lists to understand visitor trends, or proofing and providing feedback on marketing materials.

Conference production can be a very rewarding career, but it is not for the faint-hearted. The work is dynamic and diverse but can be challenging at times as we are working to meet deadlines and performance targets. A great conference producer doesn’t just deliver what is asked, but goes above and beyond by evaluating and developing their own work to achieve excellence.

The role and responsibilities:

  • Project management and production of content and conferences in your care
  • Writing engaging copy for conference programmes, webinars, speaker interviews, blog posts, etc.
  • Desk and phone research to identify market trends, hot topics, and new conference opportunities
  • Building relationships with key industry figures and speaker acquisition
  • Cross-functional collaboration with sales and marketing on sponsorship and marketing deliverables
  • Delivery of the event on-site

"Working at Smarter Shows - Informa offers the unique opportunity to work with international experts who are actively shaping the future across a wide range of industries. As a Conference Producer, you directly contribute to development by creating meaningful conversations and valuable networking opportunities through workshops, panel discussions and innovative event sessions. What I find most rewarding is researching key industry trends and developing expertise in my field. I particularly value the opportunity to identify relevant, innovative, and diverse voices that contribute fresh perspectives. 
The role provides a dynamic work environment that fosters cross-departmental collaboration, allowing you to work with interesting teams." Senior Conference Producer at Smarter Shows

Qualifications

Do you have what it takes to become our next conference producer? We’d love to hear from you if you recognise yourself in the following profile:

  • A minimum of 1-2-year experience in conference production or a similar role: market research/analyst, journalism, (content) marketing
  • A minimum 2:1 university degree in economics, business studies, humanities, journalism, marketing or similar
  • Analytical: you excel at making sense of lots of different types of information. Drawing your own well-founded conclusions and presenting it concisely
  • Love of language: you enjoy writing and understand the importance of knowing your audience
  • You are results driven, resourceful in finding solutions, determined to meet your targets and adaptive to a change in plans
  • You have an efficient, meticulous, and detail-oriented work ethic
  • You are approachable, confident, and articulate
  • You must be able to work flexible hours and able to travel
  • Knowledge of using data analytics tools such as Excel, Google Data Studio or similar is a bonus

Additional Information

We work hard to make sure Life at Informa is rewarding, supportive and enjoyable for everyone. Here’s some of what you can expect when you join us. But don’t just take our word for it – see what our colleagues have to say at LifeAt.Informa.com

Our benefits include:

  • Freedom & flexibility: colleagues rate us highly for the flexibility and trust they receive and most of us balance time in the office with time working remotely
  • Great community: a welcoming culture with in-person and online social events, our fantastic Walk the World charity day and active diversity and inclusion networks
  • Broader impact: take up to four days per year to volunteer, with charity match funding available too
  • Career opportunity: the opportunity to develop your career with bespoke training and learning, mentoring platforms and on-demand access to thousands of courses on LinkedIn Learning. When it’s time for the next step, we encourage and support internal job moves
  • Time out: 25 days annual leave, rising to 27 days after two years, plus a birthday leave day and the chance to work from (almost!) anywhere for up to four weeks a year
  • A flexible range of personal benefits to choose from, plus company funded private medical cover
  • A ShareMatch scheme that allows you to become an Informa shareholder with free matching shares
  • Strong wellbeing support through EAP assistance, mental health first aiders, a healthy living subsidy, access to health apps and more
  • Recognition for great work, with global awards and kudos programmes
  • As an international company, the chance to collaborate with teams around the world

We’re not solely focused on a checklist of skills. We champion energy and ambition and look for colleagues who will roll their sleeves up, join in and help make things happen. If it sounds like a match and you have most – although not all – of the skills and experience listed, we welcome your application. At Informa, you'll find inclusive experiences and environments where all perspectives and backgrounds are welcomed. As part of this approach and our diversity and inclusion commitments, we are also formally an Equal Opportunities Employer. This means we base decisions on relevant qualifications and merit and do not discriminate on the basis of key characteristics and statuses, including all of those protected by law. Ask us or see our website for full information.

See how Informa handles your personal data when you apply for a job, https://www.informa.com/talent/informa-applicant-privacy-notice/.

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We connect businesses and professionals with knowledge. Whether it’s through powerful events, cutting-edge research, specialist content and media or smart digital marketing services, Informa champions specialists – helping them learn more, know more and do more. We’re a leading international FTSE 100 business. You might know us as Informa or you might know one of our fantastic brands, which include Black Hat, Natural Products Expo, Routledge, Industry Dive, Aviation Week, Omdia, FAN EXPO, World of Concrete and many more.

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