Conference Director
Job Description
<strong><u>Job Purpose</u></strong><p><br></p>The Conference Director is responsible for delivering all aspects of the conference, including agenda, speaker management and relationships within the industry.<p><br></p><ul><li>Development and management of new and existing relationships with relevant market stakeholders, including industry leaders, partner organisations, vendors, and the media</li><li>Programme research and development</li><li>Speaker acquisition</li><li>Leadership to ensure onsite delivery is executed with excellence and speaker and attendee/sponsor relationships are strengthened</li><li>Continual assessment of regional and global market dynamics to identify opportunities for the development of conference content offerings</li><li>Involvement in the call for papers process and session selection for technical conference.</li></ul><p><br></p><strong><u>Key Accountabilities</u></strong> <ul><li>Liaising with event partners, Ministry and committee members</li><li>Organising and running committee meetings to determine conference themes, topics, session chairs, and speakers</li><li>Conducting telephone and in-person research with stakeholders to develop programme agendas</li><li>Joining SPEX calls and meetings with existing and potential clients</li><li>Ensuring that the conference agenda is at the highest level of commercial viability for both sponsorship and delegate sales</li><li>Recruiting highly-esteemed leading experts, industry representatives, regulators, government representatives, and other relevant speakers to your programme faculty</li><li>Researching and providing strategic information required to market and sell conferences to the marketing and sales functions, including:</li><ul><li></li><ul><li>detailed information on the target market both in terms of sector and geographic markets</li><li>relevant industry associations and publications</li><li>competitive events</li></ul></ul><li>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</li><li>Providing ongoing mentoring and advice across all teams to establish in-depth industry knowledge to help enable the successful execution of the agreed strategy</li><li>Manage Call for papers process to ensure high level technical conference </li></ul><p><br></p><strong><u>Qualifications And Experience</u></strong><p><br></p>Minimum of 5 years experience in producing energy related events<p><br></p><ul><li> Ability to work with sales, marketing and operations teams</li><li> Ideally to be well connected with a solid oil and gas background</li><li> A team player</li><li> Positive attitude</li><li> Demonstrate flexibility and agility</li></ul><p><br></p>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.
