Senior Production Lead

Senior Production Lead
£60,000 - £70,000 Base + £10,000 - £20,000 Bonus
Hybrid (2 days in the office)
London
Industry leading global news agency seeks a highly accomplished Senior Conference Production Lead to join their business.
This is a unique opportunity for an outstanding senior conference producer / senior production lead who has strong commercial experience of working alongside an editorial team within a news focused business.
The successful client will be working on a flagship US event portfolio which proudly boasts some of the biggest named speakers including presidents, CEO’s of investment banks, CEO’s of elite brands such as Ferrari etc.
Crucially, we want someone who is an expansive / creative thinker, has experience working with top level CEO's and business leaders, can take a broad view / has good working knowledge of key markets (banking, markets, technology, sustainability).
As a Senior Production Lead, you will:

• Lead the success of their flagship live journalism event to deliver a market-leading product.
  
• Manage production timelines and deliver against revenue, attendance, and marketing targets for the entire project.
  
• Lead the recruitment and relationship management of A-list speakers, in collaboration with editorial colleagues.
  
• You will likely be asked to mentor other Conference Producers including deadline management, monitoring event performance, planning (strategic, financial and operational) and providing guidance and coaching.
  
• Be the central driver for event execution, working with a cross-functional team to build the full event product, including agenda, speaker faculty, audience and other elements.
  About You
  To be our Senior Production Lead, you will most likely:
  
• Have demonstrable experience in leading major global news and media events, or events with a high level of editorial collaboration.
  
• We are crucially looking for someone who has strong conference production experience and has worked with an editorial team to curate agendas. Ideally, you will have worked within a news agency type organisation.
  
• Have a track record of commercial success, excellent project and time management skills, and the ability to work in changing circumstances.
  
• Have strong communication skills and be comfortable engaging with senior-level executives to manage speaker and sponsor relationships.
  
• Have managed entire projects at scale and/or grown commercial events/products from scratch.
  
• Be commercially driven first and foremost - you should understand the commercial drivers behind our customers decisions, as our job is to help them make smarter ones!
  
• Be someone with the ability to identify new and interesting business trends coupled with the drive to develop great events that senior business people can’t afford to miss.
  Lipton Media is a specialist media recruitment agency based in London. We specialise in all forms of b2b media sales including conferences, exhibitions, awards, summits, publishing, digital, outdoor, TV, radio and business intelligence. Our clients range from small start-up companies to FTSE 100 and 250 businesses.
  We work with people at every stage of their career from undergraduates looking for their first entry point into sales to senior managers and directors looking for their next challenge