Events Development Director

Wilmington plc
Company Outline

Job Role: HSJ Events Development Director

Location: Hybrid London – Tuesday and Thursday office based

You are an experienced Events Producer who is looking for a new, high profile role in Financial service and Insurance events!

If you have a passion for Events, we’d love you to come and join our

dynamic, multi-award-winning, growing Events Team.

Our Wilmington Events EMEA team deliver successful events for a variety of leading brands within our portfolio of businesses including Health Service Journal (HSJ), International Compliance Association (ICA), AXCO and MiExact.

ICA is the leading professional body for the global regulatory and financial crime compliance community. Since 2001, ICA has enhanced the knowledge, skills and behaviour of over 150,000 professionals all over the world either through their internationally-recognised portfolio of professional qualifications and training.

Job purpose, tasks and responsibilities

The role involves managing and producing ICA and taking the overall lead on the end to end project management and growth plans. You will work alongside and effectively with the editorial, marketing, operations, and sales teams to ensure the events achieve their goals and targets, whilst meeting the needs of the target audience and sponsors.

As an Events Development Manager you will be responsible for producing the current events’ portfolio to a high quality, developing extension products around these event brands and looking for new opportunities to launch new , identifying new audiences and vendor markets.

It is anticipated that an Event Development Manager’s time will be spent directionally as follows:

• 15% planning and analysis
• 25% market research (5 research calls per day for 90 days per year)
• 25% speaker acquisition
• 10% copywriting
• 20% project management
• 5% other

Essential and desirable capabilities

We always support colleagues to develop their skills but to be successful in this job you really do need to already be able to tick most of these boxes

We know it’s not a skill, but the successful candidate must have permission to work in the role’s location by the start of their employment.

• Demonstrable commercial conference production experience
• Educated to degree level or equivalent experience
• Highly competent in all Events Production skills including qualitative and quantitative research; copywriting; project management with a proven track record of commercial results
• Advise on pricing models that will drive growth, taking into account market research.
• Closely monitor the competitor market and identify risks and opportunities – communicate those with the relevant teams as required.
• From concept to delivery, take ownership of the Product to drive optimum commercial outcomes.
• Best represent Wilmington and its brands at all times.
• Manage the quality output of all events, ensuring sustainability.
• Telephone-research led production of commercially viable conference programmes and/or Awards categories – either fully producing or managing a Content Producer.
• Set the production deadlines and ensure they are met.
• Work closely with, influence and get buy-in from the relevant in-house editorial teams to ensure the production of relevant content and to leverage existing contacts and relationships in the industry.
• Manage key stakeholder relationships in the industry relating to your event/s
• Ensure the completion of comprehensive topic briefing documents born from your research which contain essential information about the key industry issues, market and event to brief all internal stakeholders (SPEX, delegate sales, marketing, editorial and operations).
• Provide marketing teams with promotional led marketing copy for press releases, emails, the event website and brochures that is in the tone and language of the market and which generates enquiries and bookings.
• Write separate value propositions for: delegates; sponsors and speakers
• Act as project manager ensuring the production of high quality, industry leading commercially viable events are delivered on time

Wherever you are in your career and whatever your expertise, we look for people who:

• Enthusiastic, bold, and committed to a career in events
• A brilliant communicator who inspires and influences others
• Results orientated with strong commercial understanding and attention to detail
• Highly organised, calm and rational
• A teammate who is great at collaborating but who is equally able at working independently.

Wilmington characteristics You are a strategic thinker who thrives on achieving goals and developing others. You work well collaboratively and effectively utilise your strong verbal communication skills across all groups., You are goal orientated, planning focused and you enjoy influencing and persuading others through delivering messaging in a motivational personalised manner to your target audience. You are sociable and a fantastic relationship builder who has outstanding verbal communication skills and uses empathy to understand and relate to others. You are resilient and adapt to change with ease., You are naturally creative and innovative and have the ability to empathise with others to understand their needs and motivations. You are a strong communicator both verbally and in writing and have an amazing attention to detail. You are planning focused and are comfortable managing multiple projects and deadlines. Before you go

We are Wilmington plc

Wilmington plc is a portfolio made up of a specialist brands providing custom solutions to customers across the globe from over 10 different offices. We provide a wide range of products including specialist information and data, and high quality training and education, to help professionals manage Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) and Regulatory Compliance challenges. Find out more about our core purpose and how we help our customers do the right business in the right way.

Our two divisions, Information & Data and Training & Education, are underpinned by the work of experts in their field, including data and technology specialists and highly skilled practitioners who deliver our training and education solutions.

Our ambition is to have the best people work with us at Wilmington, delivering their best work because we care about them, include them and empower them. We will support you, develop you and recognise you.

Why join us?

We are a dynamic business, providing a huge number of products to a wide range of customers. We understand the power of diversity, and we celebrate the innovation and creativity that can be achieved through our own unique experiences, knowledge, and perspectives. We love to build teams that showcase our individuality and creativity, building our positive culture across our organisation.

Our work provides variety, development and the opportunity to be part of a community of over 700 colleagues in 8 countries worldwide. Our environment is encouraging, supportive, and committed to individual, business and team growth; one where people love to join and make an impact. We embrace new ideas and fresh thinking, we overcome challenges together, and we rely on each other to bring innovation to life. At Wilmington, we work hard to help each other grow and succeed.

What do we offer?

Joining Wilmington means you’ll be part of a dedicated team, committed to providing high quality services and support to our customers. Our people are empowered to learn and develop themselves, and being part of our team, we provide the opportunities for you to grow.

We offer a great core benefits package which includes performance related bonus, pension and life assurance. We also offer a flexible benefits package so you can tailor your benefits to suit you ie additional holiday purchase, healthcare, subsidised gym memberships, cycle to work schemes and discount vouchers.

We have a hybrid working framework that balances flexible working with providing the space for collaboration and learning from each other.

We care about the physical and mental health of all our colleagues. We provide an extensive range of wellbeing resources so that everyone feels supported, and has the best opportunity to do their best work.

The Legal Bit!

The statements above are intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by employees assigned to this role. Statements are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities and skills required for this position.

Please note that this role may remain advertised until an offer of employment has been made.