Executive Platforms.Full job description
WHO WE ARE AND WHAT WE DO...
Executive Platforms builds world-class forums to facilitate the sharing of ideas among the senior leadership of businesses and organizations with common objectives, interests, and challenges. Through careful and concerted effort based upon decades of experience, we work to elevate the conversation and provide all our stakeholders with a trusted platform to network, benchmark, learn, and grow together to inspire success in their working lives.
Based in the historic St. Lawrence Market area, Executive Platforms boasts a comfortable and friendly working environment with an experienced and energetic sales team. We work hard to achieve our targets, and we make a point of having a good time while we are doing it.
www.executiveplatforms.com
Responsibilities for Conference Production Manager
- Contacting top-level decision-making executives for speaker recruitment purposes as well as research purposes
- Building and maintaining strong relationships with speakers for future events
- Independently managing the production of events as well as overseeing the production of team member events
- Copywriting & agenda writing, ensuring the content produced meets the needs of the key stakeholders
- Participating in and lead virtual and onsite rehearsals with speakers
- Thoroughly debriefing and documenting completed events and projects while focusing on best practices for continuous growth and improvement
- Keeping up to date with current industry trends, market activities, and the competitive landscape
- Overseeing the Production department including supporting the recruitment, training and ongoing mentoring of team members
- Collaborating with the Senior Vice President Conference Production on performance management responsibilities of team members
- Reviewing current processes and identifying alternative ways to solve problems, considering both costs and benefits
- Collaborating with other departments including Sales, Marketing and Operations to ensure event success
Qualifications for Conference Production Manager
- Bachelor’s degree (Business, Marketing or Communications an asset)
- 5+ Years of Event Management experience, preference for Production experience and Speaker Recruitment
- End-to-end understanding of live conference production
- Collaborative with strong interpersonal and relationship-building skills
- Excellent customer service, communication and presentation skills
- Ambitious results-oriented individual with entrepreneurial drive
- Be highly skilled in handling multiple concurrent projects
- Ability and willingness to make cold calls to senior-level executives, with excellent telephone manner
- General business acumen and understanding of Fortune 1000 companies
- Willingness to travel to attend summits (roughly 5 per year)
- Experience leading a team
Things to Discuss Further During the Interview
- This position will offer the opportunity for occasional travel
- Our company offers above the normal starting vacation and observes US holidays
- Our company is working on a hybrid model with some days in the office and some days at home
Executive Platforms is committed to cultivating a diverse and inclusive workplace that reflects different abilities, backgrounds, beliefs, experiences, identities and perspectives. Executive Platforms invites applications from all qualified candidates. For applicants with disabilities requiring accommodation at any point in the recruitment process, please contact us.
Job Type: Full-time
Salary: $100,000.00-$125,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Casual dress
- Company events
- Dental care
- Extended health care
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Work from home
Schedule:
Supplemental pay types:
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Toronto, ON M5E 1A7
