Event Producer – News UK (London)

Your role: The Event Producer will be accountable for the delivery and execution of NUK events reporting to the Head of Event Production.

Key to this role is supporting our titles and bringing our brands to life, creating best-in-class content programmes supporting our editorial and marketing objectives.

The Event Producer has the responsibility for the event production of their events. Working closely with the whole News Live team, the Event Producer will be required to maintain a high level of internal and external client satisfaction and meet KPIs agreed upon meeting the different stakeholder’s requirements.

Day to day you will:

Work with Head of Event Production & Head of Conferencing, to deliver best in-class customer & stakeholder experience for News UK.
Work with the other producers on brief management of commercial event solutions, responding to briefs on time, with correctly costed up budgets (ensuring it includes a sufficient level of contingency & resource support).
Identify & understand stakeholder objectives and ensure you deliver on KPIs set by lead/support the delivery of these.
Identify stakeholder’s needs and challenges, gaining mutual trust and respect.
Creation & development of your stakeholder’s event proposition, working closely with stakeholders to manage your event on time and on/under budget.
Work with the Head of Programming and The Head of Conferencing to deliver on key stakeholder KPIs.
Manage event coordinator & freelancers (where applicable), supporting them with workload management & learning new skills.
Liaise with existing and new suppliers and venues, working with the Head of Event Productions to negotiate the best price in order to drive down costs.
Manage and monitor financial forecasting, billing and processes for your events, including a firm control of department spend and reconciliation.
Work with internal teams to gain support in what we deliver, making events work harder.
Create regular reports for activity, evaluation, ticket sales, member feedback and insight.
Ensure effective communication/project management from brief to post-campaign analysis.
Support the Head of Event Production by feeding into reports for the Director of Operations. This includes the daily management of your projects on Smartsheets/ Project Management systems to aid successful reporting and allow real time & transparency of projects to the rest of the team.
Promote and represent the events team across the business.
Support customer data strategy – working closely with the Marketing Communications Manager support the collection of data, customer feedback and delivering this information back into the business

What we’re looking for from you:

Demonstrable event management experience, including setting and delivering on event campaign KPIs.
Experience in responding to client and agency briefs and delivering successful pitches.
Experience in content creation e.g. programming events, and recruiting speakers.
Proven track record in organising small, medium and large scale events, experiential and brand communications activity.
Ability to deliver projects on-brand and brief within challenging timescales.
Setting budgets and maintaining margins for varying sizes of budgets and events.
Be commercially skilled and minded, with the ability to consider client growth and business development.
Strong understanding of event marketing and audience engagement/customer experience.
Travel, weekend and evening work required. (lieu time given for out of hours work)

Key Behaviours

Passionate about the work you do, embracing every opportunity to do your best work
Principled in the way you go about your role and the decisions you make
Purposeful with a strong desire to achieve and deliver work to a high standard
A commercially minded, confident decision maker and problem solver who is operationally focused with the ability to develop processes to drive productivity
Strong team player – able to work in a variety of project groups whether leading or contributing to the project
Flexible approach – Travel, weekend and evening work is required

We are News UK: One of the leading media businesses in the UK and Ireland, our newsbrands include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Sun on Sunday and The TLS. Our national broadcast brands include talkSPORT, Times Radio, talkRADIO and Virgin Radio UK, and we have market-leading local radio stations across Ireland. In 2022 we will launch TalkTV, a major new TV channel available to everyone across the UK, delivering a schedule of news, current affairs, entertainment and sport, with Piers Morgan in a primetime evening show. Our world-famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning digital and print, audio and video, events and experiences, our brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. News UK is wholly owned by News Corp.

Life at News: At News UK some of us work flexibly, in many different ways. We encourage you to talk to us about the flexibility you need. We can’t promise to offer exactly what you want, but we do promise not to judge you for asking.

We champion diversity and inclusion, we strive to maximize and encourage every individual’s potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through our Diversity Board, D&I strategy & training, creating more diverse content and our intern and apprenticeship programmes. We also have 8 employee-led networks; Cultural Diversity, News is Out, GenZ, Sustainability Champions, News for Parents, Women in Tech, News UK Christian Fellowship and we are awaiting the launch of our Women’s Steering Group.

We take pride in looking after our amazing talent at News UK supporting the Health and Wellbeing of our staff. We offer private medical insurance covering pre-existing conditions, discounted gym memberships, ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual HIIT, yoga and run club classes, and a ‘Bikes for Work’ scheme, as well as offering opportunities for physio/massage, counselling and legal support.

In addition we also offer:

A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%;
25 days holiday and up to 4 volunteering days per year;
Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks;
Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access.

We want to ensure that everyone we meet has the opportunity to perform to their best when interviewing, so feel free to let us know, at any stage, whether you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, and we will do our best to accommodate.