Graduate Conference Producer - London, United Kingdom - Argus Media

Argus Media

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Graduate Conference Producer

Location:
London, UK

About Argus
Argus is an independent media organisation with 1,300 staff. It is headquartered in London and has 29 offices in the world's principal commodity trading and production centres.

Argus produces price assessments and analysis of international energy and other commodity markets and offers bespoke consulting services and industry-leading conferences.

Companies in 140 countries around the world use Argus data to index physical trade and as benchmarks in financial derivative markets as well as for analysis and planning purposes.

Argus was founded in 1970 and is a privately held UK-registered company.

It is owned by employee shareholders, global growth equity firm General Atlantic and Hg, the specialist software and technology services investor.

Argus Media is committed to ensuring career and personal growth for all its staff and provides extensive training and career development opportunities, as well as participation in employee-led initiatives, including a women's network.

Our core values are Excellence, Integrity, Partnership and Inclusivity.

Argus produces commercial conferences for the energy and commodities markets.

We specialise in agriculture, bioenergy, crude oil, the energy transition, fertilizers, genfuels, LPG, metals, net zero, oil products, and petrochemicals.

With a global portfolio of 35 events, Argus have dedicated conference teams in Houston, London, Moscow, Sao Paulo, Shanghai, and Singapore.

What will you be doing?
***We are looking for a passionate, driven and resourceful Graduate Conference Producer to join our expanding global team. This is a great opportunity for someone with no/limited Conference Production work experience to establish and grow their career in Conferences. You will be tasked with delivering commercially successful, well attended and critically respected conferences.

Your primary responsibility will be to research and write the conference programme, identify and secure the full speaker faculty, drive the commercial strategy of the event and manage the project from inception to completion.

This will include International travel to attend all the events you deliver.

Conference production offers a rich, varied and international career for intellectually curious and commercially driven minds. You will quickly get under the skin of complex global commodities industries.

As a graduate you will be equipped with skills and afforded autonomy and responsibility found in few other career paths at entry level.

This role allows for face-to-face meetings around the world with senior figures from industry and politics. Creativity and lateral thinking are key, as you will be creating commercially successful, stand-out events.

K

ey Responsibilities

Using desk, telephone and facetoface client research write topical and focused conference programmes reflecting the needs most pertinent to the sector
Identify the leading names in each sector, which organisations/individuals are most innovative and secure these bellwethers as speakers on every programme
Define the commercial proposition of each event
Build and understand a market map for each conference with insight in to the value and strength of each buysell relationship
Develop a clear and concise growth strategy for each event and communicate this to the project team
Work effectively with peers in sponsorship sales, delegate marketing, conference operations, delegate sales and customer service to ensure full and effective delivery of each project
Communicate professionally with Argus editorial, business development, consulting and subscription sales to ensure we benefit from synergies with the rest of the Argus business and speak with one voice to our clients
Complete projects to deadline and on budget
Understand how market developments will impact the sectors in which you operate, and where an opportunity arises, propose new/launch conferences because of this
Network with clients at Argus events and in the market generally to ensure you are part of the industry
Develop a passion for the markets in which you operate
After an initial year of 4 conferences you will need to be able to deliver all the above on five or six conference projects annually

S

kills and

E

xperience

Intelligent educated to degree level (or equivalent). Knowledge of energy and commodity markets preferred but not essential
Commercial understand more than what is just interesting, but what each market development means for our clients and Argus and how we can monetise it in a conference setting
Driven ambitious and a selfstarter that is motivated to exceed targets
Networkable the ability to develop strong professional relationships with colleagues and clients
Client focused empathy and strong client relationship skills
Confident sure of oneself without displaying arrogance. But will demonstrate they listen