Conference Researcher/Producer, Central Brighton, £24k-£30k plus £5k- £10k profit share

Do you have Conference Producer experience?

Or….. are you a post grad with 2 years PR, Journalism or Research experience?

Would you like to work on global events whilst having a positive impact upon the planet?

Our Brighton based conference client runs global events taking place in, San Francisco, New York, Toronto and London.  Due to rapid expansion, they are now looking for a new Conference Producer to join their hard-working and friendly team based in central Brighton..

The Conference Producer will research and produce the speaking programmes for their international business summits focused on investment in sustainable technologies, including water, food and agriculture. In the past year all of these events have been run online and they have built a very successful virtual event platform

With lots of new projects on the horizon and massive growth potential in their marketplaces you will be able to shape and grow your career within the business over the coming years. There is also the opportunity for international travel once COVID travel restrictions are lifted.

The Company:

This highly reputed company have built a reputation for excellence in each of their markets and are planning rapid expansion in the next two years they are based in a new, modern & relaxed office located in central Brighton, just a couple of minutes ‘walk to the beach.

The company work with innovative start-ups and leading brands such as Google, Coca-Cola, IBM, GE and Intel. Their events take place in London, San Francisco, New York, Toronto and Singapore, so international travel is also plays a part of this role.

Their events are targeted at and built with the very top people in the sustainability sector. They are research led, but with a commercial purpose in mind. They design high quality programmes with unrivalled speakers, and due to this they have an excellent reputation in the markets they serve.

The company continue to grow year on year and are committed to re-investment to ensure they hit their long-term growth goals.

The Conference Producer Role

The Conference Producer will research and produce the speaking programmes for their international business summits focused on investment in sustainable technologies, including water, food and agriculture.

·       Conduct online and telephone research to identify the issues, challenges and opportunities within a specific clean-tech investment sector

·       Write an engaging agenda for the conference, and invite and secure high-profile speakers for your programme

·       Work closely with the sales and marketing teams to ensure we maximise the number of sponsors, exhibitors and attendees at your events

·       Write promotional and marketing materials, including web content, brochure and emails

·       Travel to and co-manage each conference on the day, looking after speakers and ensuring the smooth running of the presentations and panels

The Conference Producer Candidate:

Ideally you will be commercially savvy with experience in conference production and/or Research, PR or Journalism.  Strong academics are essential, as is the “presence” to be able to introduce speakers onstage (or online as it is at the moment!).

Skills and Experience

·       Strong academic credentials: Min 2:1 at degree level

·       At least two years’ commercial experience: Conference production experience is ideal, but experience within journalism, PR or research would be a good background for this role

·       Research skills: The ability to quickly get up to speed with new topics and identify the key issues and players within each

·       Commercial acumen: An understanding of what makes a conference work, and how we can create events which generate real business opportunities for our audience

·       Excellent communications skills: The ability to connect with CEO-level business leaders by phone and in writing, and to create persuasive marketing copy

·       Project management: Self-motivated and organised – able to plan your own time to complete a project to tight deadlines

·       Strong interpersonal skills: The ability to work within a close-knit team and to inspire and motivate your team-mates

·       Language skills an added bonus

The Package:

Ø  Generous Pension Scheme

Ø  International travel

Ø  Cycle to work scheme

Ø  Coffee Mondays, Beach picnics, Sports Day

Ø  Strong training programme and career development opportunities

Ø  Modern office in the centre of Brighton located just a couple of minutes from the beach!

Please email your CV to: cat||@escapehatchmedia.co.uk or call Cat on: 07540 993111

Graduate Event Marketing Assistant, Central Brighton, £20k-£22k

Are you a Graduate or do you have 1+ years office or events experience?

Are you driven with a positive attitude?

Would you like to kick-start a career in B2B marketing, and/or the events industry?

Our Brighton based international events client is looking for a proactive Marketing Assistant to join their busy Marketing team. They are a vibrant, dynamic business-to-business conference company who pride themselves on their friendly and supportive team environment. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work on their thriving international face to face and virtual events.

This role would suit a recent graduate or someone with a few years’ work experience who is looking to move into events or marketing. This is an excellent opportunity to gain a foothold in the industry and there are excellent opportunities for progression into event marketing or event management.

You’ll be joining a friendly, supportive team environment, and, who knows, you may even get the chance to attend one of their overseas events.

The Company:

Our client is a vibrant, dynamic business-to-business conference company based in the centre of Brighton they deliver conferences in Europe, USA and São Paulo and Singapore.

They pride themselves on their ability to develop relationships with the leaders of their industries, by bringing qualified decision-makers together, establishing their events as the industry meeting place.

The Marketing Assistant Candidate:

This is a busy, varied role and the ideal candidate will be bright, energetic and highly organised, with the following skills:

-        Strong written communication skills - accuracy and attention to detail are a must

-        Excellence in Microsoft Office - especially Word, Excel and PowerPoint

-        Knowledge of website content management systems - ideally WordPress

-        Proficiency in Canva or other image editing/design software

-        Understanding of social media for business, especially LinkedIn and Twitter

-        Self-motivated and organised, with an ability to work well in a fast-paced environment

Over and above, they are looking for a team player who works hard, is keen to learn and work their way up the career ladder and embraces the company culture.

The Marketing Assistant Role:

You’ll be joining the Marketing team and will be working closely with the Marketing Executives and Senior Marketing Executives. This is a challenging and varied role, with the following responsibilities:

·       Upload new content to the event websites, including blog posts, images and agenda 

·       Edit photos and biographies to the company style

·       Proof-read and check all websites regularly to ensure they are accurate and up to date

·       Keep up to date with SEO, web analytics and tools and implement improvements 

·       Create graphics in Canva for use in email campaigns and social media

·       Liaise with external graphic designer as needed for graphic templates, brochure updates 

·       Support our social media campaigns by monitoring industry news and partner/influencer activity, gathering internal news from the team, writing and programming content

·       Assemble content for brochures, programmes and web stories, following up with speakers and sponsors by telephone where needed

·       Format summit presentations in power-point and help manage presentations on the day 

·       Issue press invitations to journalists, and follow up on post-event articles

·       Gather data from relevant associations/competitor events to build our internal database

·       Help to run events on the day as a key part of the event team

Benefits:

o Competitive basic

o Pension ‘contribution matching’ 5%

o Cycle to work scheme

o Coffee Mondays, Beach picnics, Sports Day

o International travel opportunities (post Covid-19)

o Strong training programme and career development opportunities

o Working with a tight-knit friendly team

o Small, fun & relaxed office which is located just a couple of minutes from the beach!

· Opportunities to work on successful, growing, brands and events, including launch events

Please email your CV to: cat@escapehatchmedia.co.uk or call Cat on: 07540 993 111

Graduate Event Sales Executive, Sustainability Events, Brighton, £20k-£24k plus £10k comms

Are you a Graduate who feels passionate about the preservation of the environment?

or do you have phone sales experience and are you a competitive person?

Would you like to work towards supporting the vital and continued need for Innovation and collaboration within the Sustainability Industry for the preservation of the Environment, whilst having the capacity to earn money?

Our Brighton based events client creates international summits within the Sustainability sector. They are now looking for 2-3 highly motivated Event/Delegate Sales Executives to join their friendly close-knit team. This highly reputed company are based in a spacious modern office in the centre of Brighton, just a short walk to the beach. They offer a strong training programme and excellent career development opportunities.

Their summits target senior level business people globally and are developed with the very top people in the sustainability sector. They are research led, but with a commercial purpose in mind traditional run as face to face international summits but due to the impact of Covid-19 they are currently very successfully running all of their summits as virtual events for the time being.

The Event/Delegate Sales Executive will sell delegates tickets to attend and network at both their international face to face events and virtual events which take place in various locations throughout the year. You'll be working across the portfolio of B2B summits each one addressing different aspects of sustainability. Commission is uncapped so there is great earning potential whilst supporting a positive impact on the planet due to the nature of their events. You can also earn special bonuses if you outperform.

The Company:

The company have created a series of international summits, designed by experts across a variety of sustainability sectors. Through extensive research, they create hard hitting agendas, rich in content which feature the industry’s most influential figures. The summits have an excellent reputation and as a result attendance is high - interactive debate and extensive networking opportunities encourage the sharing of ideas and information, and the formation of new business relationships.

Their goal is to inform and shape the future of Industries with greater presence and impact of cleantech and renewables. Partners who share their mission and see the value in their Summits includes brands such as; Google, Coca Cola, IBM, NASA, Intel, Nestle, Melinda & Bill Gates Foundation and United Nations.

The company continue to grow year on year and are committed to re-investment to ensure they hit their long-term growth goals.

The Event/Delegate Sales Executive role: 

Your job will consist of CRM & Data management to find & qualify the best, most senior candidates within the industry and then using telephone & email communication to convert these leads into paid registrations for the Summit. Delegates are director-level, and based globally, so an ability to sell to senior, international contacts, in an effective and efficient manner, is a must.

What you will do:

· Follow up inbound leads and enquiries and convert to sales

· Identify and account manage past multi-buyers and key customers

· Build, operate and maintain a sales database

· Work directly with the marketing team to generate new leads

· Develop the portfolio of products and Identify new business opportunities

Eventually, you will specialise and become an expert on a specific Industry. 

The Event/Delegate Sales Executive Candidate:

· A graduate

· Previous phone sales experience preferred but not essential

· An interest in sustainability

· CRM experience (preferred but not essential)

· Track record of high achievement

· A highly self-driven sense of motivation

· Natural curiosity and passion for sustainability

· Confident when selling to Senior-level business people globally

· Ability to work well within a team environment

· Good IT skills including Excel, Word, Outlook and Google

· Educated to Degree level (preferred but not essential)

· A good sense of humour!

Bonus skills, but not essential! 

· Additional languages – Spanish, German, French

· Understanding and experience of the B2B conference model

· Experience with Salesforce /databases

The Package: 

o Competitive basic, uncapped commission

o Pension ‘contribution matching’ 5%

o Cycle to work scheme

o Coffee Mondays, Beach picnics, Sports Day

o International travel opportunities (post Covid-19)

o Strong training programme and career development opportunities

o Working with a tight-knit friendly team

o Small, fun & relaxed office which is located just a couple of minutes from the beach!

Please email your CV to: cat@escapehatchmedia.co.uk or call Cat on: 07540 993111

FILLED - Event Sales Executive, Sustainability, Brighton, £20k - £22k plus comms

Do you have some sales experience and are you a competitive person?

Are you passionate about sustainability?

Would you like to earn lots of money whilst having a positive impact upon the planet? 

Our events client based in Brighton is now looking for highly motivated Event Sales Executive to join their busy team. This highly reputed company are based in a small, fun & relaxed office which are located just a couple of minutes from Brighton beach. They offer a strong training programme and excellent career development opportunities. 

The Event Sales Executive will sell attendance across a portfolio of market leading B2B conferences in the cleantech and renewable energy sectors. Commission is uncapped so there is great earning potential whilst you will be having a positive impact on the planet due to the nature of their events. You can also earn special bonuses if you outperform.

 Due to the impact of Covid our client is now successfully running their events as virtual events.

The Company:

The company work with innovative start-ups and leading brands such as Google, Coca-Cola, IBM, GE and Intel. Their events take place in London, San Francisco, New York, Toronto and Singapore, so international travel is also plays a part of this role. 

Their events are targeted at and built with the very top people in the sustainability sector. They are research led, but with a commercial purpose in mind. They design high quality programmes with unrivalled speakers, and due to this they have an excellent reputation in the markets they serve. 

The company continue to grow year on year and are committed to re-investment to ensure they hit their long-term growth goals.

The Event Sales Executive role: 

You will be expected to use telephone and email to convert leads into paid registrations for the summit. Delegates are director-level, and based globally, so an ability to connect with senior, international contacts is a must. 

What you will do: 

·      Follow up inbound leads and enquiries and convert to sales 

·      Identify and account manage past multi-buyers and key customers 

·      Build, operate and maintain a sales database 

·      Work directly with the marketing team to generate new leads 

·      Develop the portfolio of products and Identify new business opportunities 

The Events sales Executive Candidate: 

·      Graduate

·      Track record of high achievement 

·      A highly self-driven sense of motivation 

·      Previous successful sales experience OR a strong interest in a sales career 

·      Natural curiosity and passion for sustainability

·      Confident when selling to senior-level business people globally 

·      Ability to work well within a team environment 

·      Good IT skills including Excel, Word, Outlook and Google 

·      A good sense of humour! 

Bonus skills, but not essential! 

·      Additional languages – Spanish, German, French 

·      Understanding and experience of the B2B conference model 

·      Experience with Salesforce / databases

The Package: 

Ø  Competitive basic, uncapped commission 

Ø  Pension ‘contribution matching’ 5%

Ø  Cycle to work scheme

Ø  International travel opportunities, once allowed

Ø  Flexible working hours

Ø  Strong training programme and career development opportunities 

Ø  Small, fun & relaxed office which is located just a couple of minutes from the beach!

Please email your CV to: cat@escapehatchmedia.co.uk or call Cat on: 07540 993111 

FILLED - Events Marketing Executive, Brighton, up to £24k plus profit share

Do you have b2b marketing experience – ideally in events/conferences?

Would you like to work on global events whilst having a positive impact upon the planet? 

Our events client is based in Brighton but work globally, with their biggest events taking place in San Francisco, New York, Toronto and London.  Due to rapid expansion, they are now looking for an experienced marketing executive to join their busy team. 

The Marketing Executive will plan, manage and execute marketing campaigns for their international business summits, which for the time being are successfully being run as virtual events.

With lots of new projects on the horizon and massive growth potential in their marketplaces you will be able to shape and grow your career within the business over the coming years. 

Our client is looking for is someone who has a 100% can-do attitude, who can turn their hand to anything, who’s a good writer, and super-efficient and organised.

The Company:

This highly reputed company have built a reputation for excellence in each of their markets, and are planning rapid expansion in the next two years they are based in a small, fun & relaxed office which are located just a couple of minutes from the beach. 

The company work with innovative start-ups and leading brands such as Google, Coca-Cola, IBM, GE and Intel. Their events take place in London, San Francisco, New York, Toronto and Singapore, so international travel is also plays a part of this role. 

Their events are targeted at and built with the very top people in the sustainability sector. They are research led, but with a commercial purpose in mind. They design high quality programmes with unrivalled speakers, and due to this they have an excellent reputation in the markets they serve. 

The company continue to grow year on year and are committed to re-investment to ensure they hit their long-term growth goals.

The Marketing Executive role:

You will be working as part of a dedicated and ambitious team, and will be responsible for the following:

•    Help develop the brand design and core sales messages for each conference 


•   Keep the conference websites up to date with fresh content and information 


•   Write, design and deliver high-impact, content-rich email campaigns to our network 


•   Negotiate and manage marketing partnerships with industry associations and media 


•   Liaise with speakers and sponsors to market our conferences to their networks 


•   Create and manage industry-relevant content including case studies, interviews, 
webinars, twitter chats, infographics, photography and video 


•   Oversee the design and print of conference brochures and on-site materials including 
signage and banners; managing external design, production and fulfilment agencies 


•   Develop the in-house marketing database for each conference and manage an external 
database research agency 


•   Attend and help run the conferences as a core part of the event team 


The Marketing Executive Candidate: 

You will be a motivated, proactive and creative marketing professional, ideally with  experience in B2B marketing, preferably (but not necessarily) in the conference/exhibition sector.  

This is a diverse and challenging role in a fun, fast-paced environment.  If you are highly motivated and creative, with an eagle-eye for accuracy and meticulous organization skills, this could be the role for you.

Ideally you will have experience in the following:

·       Project management 

·       Relationship building and negotiation 

·       Copywriting for print and online

·       Website CMS – ideally Wordpress

·       SEO / Google Adwords / PPC

·       Mailchimp / email marketing systems

·       Database management 

·       Marketing analytics and reporting

·       Advanced Word / Excel / PowerPoint

The Package: 

Ø  Generous pension Scheme

Ø  International travel 

Ø  Cycle to work scheme

Ø  Flexible working hours

Ø  Strong training programme and career development opportunities 

Ø  Small, fun & relaxed office which is located just a couple of minutes from the beach!

Please email your CV to: at@escapehatchmedia.co.uk or call Cat on: 07540 993111