English speaking Event Organiser/Producer

Title: English speaking Event Organiser/Producer
Department : Delegate Sales & Events Creation Team
Language required: Fluent English
Location : London
Sector : International Events company
Salary : up to £25,000 + OTE (£29k in year one)
Opportunities for Travel: Yes

Company Details
Fast moving international conference and events organisation with a highly specialist tech niche that has secured it's place as one of the best-known companies in its field. They have a network of high profile expert-speakers globally and hold events in Scandinavia, Europe and the Middle East and attract CEO's and government ministers. This is an exciting growth sector and a growing company.

For the right person, this job will offer outstanding opportunities to get involved in every aspect of event management and will develop your career in this area. There are opportunities to travel with your job and to suggest/create new event types that will keep this business ahead-of-the-curve in what is a fast-changing sector.
Job Role
This is a target driven role with immovable event-date deadlines to meet.
1)Building relationships/Speaker Acquisition:
*Contact existing, and also new, expert speakers, establish rapport with them and persuade them to speak at international events
*Undertake outbound market research calls, inform potential attendees of the event and also contact potential new speakers
*Attending face to face meetings with speakers
2)Marketing:
*Advertising the event via email, social media and telephone contact
*Liaising with event sponsors
*Attend events to ensure it runs smoothly
*Read government White Papers, listen to web casts & attend other industry events to stay updated on industry changes
*Summarise and report back to the rest of the team
3)Event project management:
*Organise, manage and build the events catering to up to 100 guests
*Put together slides for the speakers
*Liaise with event programme suppliers & check all equipment is on the stage at the right time
*Meet event-date deadlines
*Ensure enough interesting speakers attend to attract guests; stay in touch with speakers who have committed to attend
*General event admin
REQUIREMENTS
*Some previous events experience
*Fluent English