Conference Producers required!

Do you want to learn about business? How world markets function, and how industries work? We’ll teach you.

If you want real responsibility, control of a budget of over 50k from your first day and the opportunity to develop your career quickly, we’re interested in talking to you.

The Job

Initially you’ll be asked to research, create and build major industry conferences.

To be absolutely clear you will be a conference promoter not a conference organiser! You won’t be answerable to a client, organising coffee or booking space at hotels. You will be researching markets, understanding hot business issues, developing conference programmes and conducting high profile marketing campaign.

An interest in business is a must, as is an entrepreneurial spirit, a readiness to take responsibility for your work and, of course, great communication skills.

If you want the chance to succeed in international business AND a chance to work for a creative company where people come first please apply.

Qualification Requirements:

You don’t need experience in conferences. We look for people who have done interesting things with their time – and who can grow and develop – rather than those who just have good qualifications.

Communication and research skills are essential and an entrepreneurial bent is always a bonus.

What we really want are people 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.

Salary: Salaries start at £23K, plus very generous profit share

Unlike many companies First Conferences Ltd likes to develop raw talent.

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Research Analyst – CSP Today

Job description

Rapidly-expanding London-based media company seeks Research Analyst for maintaining, developing and producing online business intelligence, premium content and industry reports.

The Research Analyst will be responsible for maintaining accurate, up-to-date and extensive intelligence on companies, investors, and service providers within the CSP sector. They will manage the online CSP Global Tracker, research and produce two high quality industry reports and write Premium Content including weekly analysis, plant profiles etc and Quarterly ‘mini ‘reports.

You will manage and develop relationships with the latest key opinion leaders in our Concentrated Solar Power sector - http://social.csptoday.com/

This is a new and exciting role for someone who wants a challenging, diverse role that they can develop and put their own stamp on.

Responsibilities

Your primary role will be to maintain and develop the CSP Global Tracker and produce Premium Content including:

Updating our on-line database with key industry and project information, statistics and analysis.
Obtaining reliable information through regular contact with the CSP industry.
Providing current and updated analysis relating to the CSP market through Premium Content.
Researching and writing the production of Quarterly Update.
Carrying out primary research in the CSP industry to qualify report topics.
Managing production of min. 2 top quality CSP reports on time and on budget.
Selecting and managing contractors (researchers, industry experts, editors, designers etc.)
Managing and editing freelance journalist weekly articles
Developing and managing the Editorial Calendar for CSP Today
Contributing to overall team strategy and objectives

Desirable skills and experience

Graduate (2:1) or above.
Experience of conducting qualitative and quantitative research, ideally business-related.
A good understanding of standard research tools and methodologies
Strong written and verbal English skills along with an analytical orientation that means you are also comfortable working with numerical data.
Good organisational skills and time management skills; ability to multi-task and able to prioritise workload.
High-level attention to detail.
Strong communication and interaction skills; able to build working relationship internally and externally.
Ability and enthusiasm to work independently within a highly focussed, supportive and friendly team.

Other highly-valued qualities include:

Fluency in other languages – Spanish desirable
Interest in renewable energy

Benefits

Competitive salary range of 25-30K, dependent on experience, plus excellent profit share

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Subscription Sales Manager – CSP Today

As a Subscription Sales Manager you will have a minimum of 2-3 years subscription sales or SPEX sales experience. You will possess excellent sales skills with ideally experience of market intelligence subscription sales and of managing subscription renewals.

The Role

As a Subscription Sales Manager you will become part of one of our flagship business sectors, CSP Today. You will be responsible for selling our newly developed CSP Today Global Industry Tracker - a high value online Market Intelligence product delivered as an integrated part of CSP Today’s business portal. This role is principally focused on achieving new market intelligence subscription sales, achieving a high level of subscription renewals and subscription upgrades. This will be achieved through mainly telephone sales to our strong CSP database (as well as sourcing new leads) and creating and developing strong relationships with them.

This is a fantastic opportunity for someone looking to make an immediate impact to a business and have a clear career path.

The successful applicant will possess:

Excellent track record in selling to senior decision makers
Strong account management and business development track record in a B2B environment with experience of outbound calls to customers
Experience in presenting the value of market information
Outstanding communication, negotiation and closing skills
Highly developed business acumen and ability to understand the wider issues of the industry
Ability to determine our client’s needs and feedback new product ideas to our team
Ability to work on own initiative
Outgoing, friendly personality
Fluent spoken and written English
*Degree educated (preferred but not essential)
*Experience or a keen interest in the solar energy or renewable energy industry (desirable not essential)

Key responsibilities include but are not limited to:

Consistently achieve monthly sales targets through new sales, renewals and up-selling
Understand overall strategic processes, direction and day to day projects of your clients
Effectively communicate and promote new reports, analysis and offerings to existing clients
Determining client needs and to be constantly aware of opportunities to up-sell to an organisation
Develop comprehensive knowledge of offerings, functionality, positioning and competitive advantage
Pro-actively generate new sales
Expand customer base through lead sourcing and sales

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Research Executive - FC Business Intelligence

Rapidly-expanding London-based media company seeks Research Executive for production of business intelligence reports.

Do you want to be part of a dynamic research and reports team ?
Do you have good project management skills?
Do you want maximum responsibility from day one
Do you want the opportunity to grow in a business-to-business environment
Do you want to develop your research skills and build up your expertise in diverse and interesting global industries?

Then this is the right opportunity for you.

Job description

A Research Executive is required to commission and co-ordinate business intelligence research to produce high quality industry reports for the leading-edge global industries we serve.

The role is diverse and challenging, and you’ll be responsible for managing market research studies from initiation to data delivery/checking. You will need to understand the background and objectives of each research project ,manage the overall approach to primary research, including questionnaire design and data validity and project manage external industry experts to produce high quality industry reports.

You will manage and develop relationships with the latest key opinion leaders in our diverse markets including Pharma, Wind Energy, Telematics, Travel, Solar.

Responsibilities

Your primary role will be to manage the production – from start to finish – of up to eight high quality reports per year, including:

Identifying new trends and developing new reports
Carrying out primary research on leading-edge industries to qualify report topics
Selecting and managing contractors (researchers, editors, designers etc.)
Coordinating report production activities
Publishing top quality reports on time and on budget
Contributing to overall team strategy and objectives

Desirable skills and experience

Graduate (2:1) or above
Experience of conducting qualitative and quantitative research, ideally business-related
A good understanding of standard research tools and methodologies
Excellent written and spoken English
Good organisational skills and time management skills; ability to multi-task and able to prioritise workload
High level attention to detail
Strong communication and interaction skills; able to build working relationship internally and with external providers

Other highly-valued qualities include: