Conference Manager

IT & Network
United Arab Emirates 🇦🇪
October 2, 2023

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Job Description

Job purpose:

The Conference Manager’s responsibility is to support the Conference Director in delivering all aspects of the conference, including agenda, speaker management and relationships within the industry.

  • Development and management of new and existing relationships with relevant market stakeholders, including industry leaders, partner organisations, vendors, and the media
  • Programme research and development
  • Speaker acquisition
  • Leadership to ensure onsite delivery is executed with excellence and speaker and attendee/sponsor relationships are strengthened
  • Continual assessment of regional and global market dynamics to identify opportunities for the development of conference content offerings
  • Involvement in the call for papers process and session selection for technical conference.

Key accountabilties:

Support Conference Director in:

  • Liaising with event partners, Ministry and committee members
  • Organising and running committee meetings to determine conference themes, topics, session chairs, and speakers
  • Conducting telephone and in-person research with stakeholders to develop programme agendas
  • Joining SPEX calls and meetings with existing and potential clients
  • Ensuring that the conference agenda is at the highest level of commercial viability for both sponsorship and delegate sales
  • Recruiting highly-esteemed leading experts, industry representatives, regulators, government representatives, and other relevant speakers to your programme faculty
  • Researching and providing strategic information required to market and sell conferences to the marketing and sales functions, including:
    • detailed information on the target market both in terms of sector and geographic markets
    • relevant industry associations and publications
    • competitive events
  • Attending conferences to promote the conference, gather market intelligence, and to network with potential speakers and delegates to establish and maintain relationships pre- and post- conference
  • Providing ongoing mentoring and advice across all teams to establish in-depth industry knowledge to help enable the successful execution of the agreed strategy
  • Manage Call for papers process to ensure high level technical conference.

Qualifications and experience:

Minimum of 3 years experience in producing conference, preferably energy.

·       Ability to work with sales, marketing and operations teams

·       A team player

·       Positive attitude

·       Demonstrate flexibility and agility

dmg events is an equal opportunity employer. If you have not had feedback from us within 14 days, please consider your application as unsuccessful for this round.

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