Event Specialist co - owning event delivery strategy and execution at Preply's Barcelona hub. Taking hands - on ownership of live events while partnering with multiple teams across locations.
About the role
- Head of Insurance Events leading a team to manage and develop B2B conferences. Focused on enhancing event quality and commercial performance at Newton Media.
Responsibilities
- Lead and develop a team of 2 Conference Producers (junior and senior), ensuring they have the training, resources, and direction needed to deliver against KPIs and key deadlines
- Produce 3-4 conferences annually (primarily repeat events), alongside a small number of webinars
- Drive product development, scaling early-stage events into sustainable mid-sized products
- Grow existing events, increasing attendance and elevating overall quality and market positioning
- Lead the event marketing in collaboration with the marketing function—driving best practice, innovation, strong copy, and data-led decision-making to ensure ROI
- Maintain rigorous quality control across the portfolio, ensuring agendas, speakers, and marketing outputs meet high editorial standards and house style
- Own delegate revenue performance, (both on own events and wider insurance portfolio) developing and executing plans to meet financial targets and ensure high-quality audiences
- Partner with commercial teams to maximise sponsorship revenue, ensuring products are marketable and commitments to sponsors are consistently delivered
- Inspire and mentor the team, fostering a high-performance, collaborative culture and implementing effective training and development plans
- Continuously innovate event formats, using performance insights and collaboration with editorial, to enhance content, audience engagement, and overall event experience
Requirements
- Experience within insurance, banking, or wider financial services sectors
- Minimum 2 years’ experience managing and developing Conference Producers
- 6+ years’ experience in conference production, with a strong track record of delivering high-quality events
- Exceptional research, agenda development, and speaker acquisition skills
- Confident communicator with the ability to engage and influence senior-level stakeholders on strategy, budgets, business plans, and feasibility assessments
- Highly organised, with excellent project management skills and the ability to manage multiple priorities effectively
- Strong commercial acumen, with experience driving sponsorship and delegate revenue growth
- Exposure to awards programmes a plus, as many conferences in the portfolio are co-located events
Benefits
- Unlimited holiday
- Health Shield cash plan
- Income protection
- Death in service cover
- Supportive team culture
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