Global Head of Content, Special Projects - London, United Kingdom - Hyve Group

Hyve Group
Hyve Group
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London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Vacancy No

  • VN1323

Employee Type

  • Permanent

Employment Type

  • Full-Time

Location City

  • London

Location Country Vacancy

  • UK

Description

  • About Hyve
We believe that when people come together, powerful things happen. Hyve Group plc connects global industry communities through unmissable events, online networking platforms, and hyper-productive meeting programmes.

Our decades of experience put us at the heart of industries, and we are committed to using our influence to shape innovation and drive progress across our customer communities.

Our market-leading portfolio of global brands includes Shoptalk, Spring Fair, Africa Oil Week, Bett, Mining Indaba, and Retail Meetup.

LifeAtHyve
At Hyve, we are driven by our values: brilliant work, fresh thinking, rich connections, and collective buzz.

In practice, this means we value quality, work with passion, celebrate uniqueness, and are our best when we work together.

We value a diverse team and are committed to employing individuals from all backgrounds and creating a culture based around belonging.

Our hybrid working model ensures we respect our peoples' work/life balance.

Human connections are our speciality, and we offer a jam-packed calendar of social events, inclusion workshops, and professional development opportunities to make sure #LifeAtHyve is always fulfilling and exciting.

ABOUT SHOPTALK & HYVE GROUP

Our 10,000 attendees tell us each year that Shoptalk and Groceryshop are the retail industry's best events, consistently describing their experiences as amazing, educational, energizing, exciting, insightful, inspiring, productive and fun.


Held annually in Las Vegas (Shoptalk:

March, Groceryshop:
September), Shoptalk and Groceryshop are unparallelled gatherings of individuals and companies reshaping how consumers discover, shop and buy.

The events provide platforms for large retailers and branded manufacturers, startups, tech companies, investors, media and analysts to learn, network, collaborate and evolve.

Shoptalk's portfolio also includes Retail Meetups-industry-leading virtual events that focus on large-scale networking and collaboration, underpinned by proprietary technology.
Hyve Group plc acquired Shoptalk in December 2019 and acquired Retail Meetup in December 2020.

Hyve Group plc is a next generation global events business whose purpose is to create unmissable events, where customers from all corners of the globe share extraordinary moments and shape industry innovation.


Key Purpose:


Shoptalk is looking for a Global Head of Content Special Projects to help build our conference agendas and identify speakers from a broad cross-section of global retail and ecommerce organizations.

This person will be well-versed in retail trends and technologies across verticals and geographies, enabling them to be a key contributor across our full event portfolio.

This person will also play a strategic role in bringing together best practices and learnings across the global content team.

They will join a high-profile team reporting into the SVP, Content.


Key Responsibilities

  • Key Responsibilities:
As Global Head of Content Special Projects, you will be:

  • Researching, analyzing and determining the topics to cover on our agendas to help ensure that Shoptalk, Groceryshop and Shoptalk Europe remain at the forefront of thought leadership for the retail & ecommerce industries and continues to be a voice for change and development
  • Writing indepth descriptions of tracks and sessions
  • Helping to identify and recruit hundreds of seniorlevel speakers from large brands and retailers, venturebacked startups, tech companies, investors, consulting firms and more for Shoptalk, Groceryshop and Shoptalk Europe, with an initial focus on Shoptalk Europe 202
  • Joining calls with all speakers and moderators to shape the conversation that will take place at each event, and ensuring each session provides value to our audience
  • Reviewing and providing feedback on speakers' presentations to ensure they provide value to our audience
  • Interviewing speakers onstage and delivering remarks/presentations as needed
  • Helping to shape our Tabletalks peer discussion group topics and conversations
  • Helping to manage the execution of Tabletalks peer discussion groups
  • Serving as a strategic leader by identifying and incorporating best practices across events and geographies
  • Working with other teams at Shoptalk including sponsorship, marketing, design and event logistics to ensure a worldclass experience for all event attendees
  • Pitching in wherever is needed to help create a fantastic experience for speakers and attendees across the Shoptalk portfolio

Skills Required:


  • Skills & Experiences:
To be successful in this role, you must have/be:

  • Minimum 5 years of work experience
  • Experience in the retail or ecommerce industry at a brand, retailer, startup, consulting firm, research organization, media outlet or other
  • Extremely strong
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