Jobs, fresher vacancy - Senior Event Producer • UK

Company: The Drum

UK

Are you an experienced Event Producer ready to take the next step in your career? This is your opportunity to step into a Senior Producer role at The Drum, where you’ll play a key part in delivering some truly standout events throughout the year.We’re looking for a Senior Events Producer to bring creativity, leadership, and expertise to an ambitious events programme, working alongside a talented and supportive team. If you’re ready to make an impact and shine on high-profile events, we’d love to hear from you. The Role This role is to organize, develop and deliver high quality events for The Drum and our customers, whilst achieving financial targets and KPIs. To run and oversee all events in your portfolio, which could include festivals, awards, external client, and internal events.A key part of this role is to help develop The Drum’s hybrid awards/festivals working with the event director and product head to take them to the next level. To come up with ideas and plan the processes for these events. To work with other members of the event production team and the wider company skills teams to deliver events and manage all event production aspects to look at ways we can achieve our goal to increase revenue, presence and reach in our target marketsWith 19 awards, across UK, US and APAC, 6 annual content festivals, numerous white label events and exciting new opportunities for hybrid events in our Drum Labs venue.Key Responsibilities:Responsible for organising/attending a portfolio of Drum Awards from end to end of the event process to achieve the set financial targets and KPIsWorking with senior management on ways to develop The Drum events – awards/festivals/hybrid and in-personWorking with senior management on ways to increase our presence in the US and grow our business through events.Putting in place procedures and plans for running new aspects of events e.g., improvements to judging processTraining and working with other members on the team to ensure new procedures are followedResponsible for managing budgets for events to ensure they come in on targetResponsible for event production element of Drum festivals, client events and internal division events. This includes organising roundtables, webinars, panel sessions, co-ordinating speakers, co-ordinating content, requesting assets, booking in video producers, ensuring end product is to the highest standard.Working with video production team to ensure the quality of the events is to the highest standard and always improving. Working with Content Manager to recruit speakers/judges of the highest calibre and managing the relationships accordingly.Working with marketing team to ensure the marketing of event is of the highest standardWorking with the platforms manager to ensure relevant platform have the correct functionality and content is up to date Network with guests, judges, speakers etc at in person events and represent the company in an appropriate manner.Responsible for setting up and managing allocated projects through Asana.To ensure that company processes/systems are followed (including Salesforce/Asana/slack) To be aware of activities across the business and ensure cross-working with other departments to assist both the events division and the other departments to achieve their goals.Any other reasonable dutiesRequirementsAt least 4-5 years event management/production experienceCan consistently meet and exceed KPi’s and targetsHave a strong understanding of the marcoms industryHighly organised and able to work in a fast-paced environment to tight deadlinesAbility to come up with and present ideas of event developmentAbility to strain others in event processesAbility to multitaskExcellent time managementBe very organised and extremely accurate in tasksCan cope with stressful situations and find solutionsComfortable working with several internal teams/stakeholdersAbility to public speak/presentHighly personableExcellent ability to build rapportHigh level of customer serviceWillingness to travel if requiredAn understanding of Asana project management tool, slack, salesforce prefeed although not essentialLiterate in English – verbal and writtenBenefitsAt The Drum, we look after our team. We’ve done our best to create an equivalent benefit package for each of our locations. Your benefits will slightly vary depending on local needs; however, we offer the following to everyone on our team.28 days holidayPensionEnhanced family leave packagex2 paid volunteering days a yearCompany-wide mentoring programmeEmployee referral bonusCompany social eventsHybrid workingEarly finish on FridaysDog friendly officesEye care vouchers and contribution towards glassesLearning & Development fund/opportunities