The Events Producer plays a crucial role in organising and delivering exceptional events for The Drum and our clients. This entails achieving financial targets and key performance indicators (KPIs) while overseeing a diverse portfolio of events, including festivals, awards ceremonies, external client events, and internal company events. Collaboration with the event production team and other teams within the company is essential to ensure seamless event execution and management.

This position offers a fast-paced environment with a range of events taking place in the UK, US, and APAC regions, providing an exciting opportunity for an experienced event manager.



Who We Are

We believe that marketing can change the world for the better and so our mission is to help marketing professionals around the world to learn, make better decisions, make better marketing and be more successful. Our vision is to create the leading destination for marketing knowledge in the world, by thinking of our audience first, using data intelligently, building on our innovative product range and using the foundation of our industry - creativity. With bases in London, Glasgow, New York and Singapore, we inform and inspire readers with content around six pillars of content: agencies, marketing, media, creativity, sustainability and technology. We curate our content via our team of journalists, from the best-in-class work identified through our award shows, from user-generated content via Open Mic and The Drum Network, from clients we work with to market them via content and through the ratings we gather from marketing services buyers on The Drum Recommends. We deliver it to our audience through multiple channels: articles and reports; TV; audio; live in person at The Drum Labs; online networking/meetings; at industry events.



Responsibilities

Organise events to achieve predefined financial targets and KPIs.
Manage the end-to-end event process for a portfolio of Drum Awards, including launch, entries, sponsors, judging, nominations, and results ceremony/announcement. Events can be in-person, virtual, or hybrid.
Coordinate and attend award ceremonies, and events, both domestically and internationally.
Ensure events adhere to budgetary constraints and stay on target.
Oversee event production for Drum festivals, client events, and internal division events. This includes organising roundtables, webinars, panel sessions, coordinating speakers, content management, requesting assets, booking video producers, and ensuring the final product meets the highest standards.
Collaborate with the video production team to continually improve the quality of events.
Work with the Content Manager to recruit high-calibre speakers and judges, and manage relationships accordingly.
Collaborate with the marketing team to ensure exceptional event marketing.
Provide excellent support and fulfillment for sponsors.
Collaborate with the platforms manager to keep relevant websites up to date.
Manage assigned projects through Asana.
Adhere to company processes and systems, including Salesforce, Asana, and Slack.
Maintain awareness of activities across the organization, fostering collaboration between the events division and other departments to help achieve their respective goals.
Network with guests, judges, speakers, etc., during in-person events, representing the company professionally.
Undertake any other reasonable duties as required.
Requirements
Demonstrates consistent achievement and surpassing of KPIs and targets.
An understanding of the marcoms industry is preferable.
Highly adept at organising and thriving in a fast-paced environment with tight deadlines.
Exceptional multitasking skills.
Exemplary time management abilities.
Highly organised and meticulous in task execution.
Capable of effectively handling and resolving stressful situations.
Comfortable collaborating with multiple internal teams and stakeholders.
Proficient in public speaking and delivering presentations.
Highly personable with excellent rapport-building skills.
Exhibits a strong commitment to providing exceptional customer service.
Willingness to travel as required.
Familiarity with Asana project management tool, slack, and Salesforce preferred, but not mandatory.
Fluent in verbal and written English.
Benefits
We work on a hybrid model to ensure you get the best of both worlds - 3 days a week in our Shoreditch (London) or Glasgow offices and the rest from home.
28 days annual leave + public holidays
Got that Friday feeling? We do too - we finish early every Friday!
People come first at The Drum and so when we achieve our financial goals, we share the profits with the whole team.
Love events? We have an entire building dedicated to hosting some of the industry's best events, with its own bar and roof terrace! You get VIP access.
We love to hire super talented people and we've created a Mentoring Scheme to support your development.
Supporting others is important to us and we encourage you to do the same with 2x paid charity volunteering days each year.
We have a Culture Club to be proud of. We host a variety of fun social events, from axe throwing to book clubs and bake offs to name a few.
We all feel under the weather from time to time but fear not, we provide Enhanced Sick Pay for all our staff.
Having a "should have gone to Specsavers" moment? Our free Eyecare. Vouchers will come in useful.
Enhanced Family Leave for when you start a family.
Company Pension
Generous Employee Referral Bonuses.
Cycle to work scheme.
A creative and engaging company culture right across the business.