Conference Program Manager

6 days ago


Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Informa Connect Full time
About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled Conference Program Manager to join our team at Informa Connect. As a key member of our team, you will be responsible for researching, writing, and delivering high-quality innovative educational conference programs for BUILDEX events.

Key Responsibilities
  • Research and develop conference content that is highly relevant to our target audiences and supports our commercial goals.
  • Source and secure the participation of industry-leading speakers through research, networking, and existing contacts.
  • Manage speaker proposals, communications, and change requests, ensuring alignment with current year's themes, target audience, and balance of interest areas.
  • Develop and adopt new conference themes, features, and formats to evolve our conference offering.
  • Support and lead the conference team to implement strategic, commercial, sustainability, quality, and diversity and inclusion improvement initiatives.
  • Take full responsibility for BUILDEX conferences and webinars, ensuring they run to schedule, deadlines, and budget.
  • Work with the Marketing Team to develop content and promotional collateral to drive delegate registrations.
  • Work closely with the Sales Team to create conference agendas, show features, and products that drive sponsorship and exhibition sales.
  • Work with the Operations Team to prepare for the onsite delivery of the conference and conference-related show features.
  • Work with internal and external team members on websites, event schedules, registration platforms, and continuing education credit submissions relating to the conference program.
  • Become the primary point of contact for the onsite set-up, delivery, and management of BUILDEX conferences.
  • Work with internal and external team members to deliver post-event reports, deliverables, learnings, and insights.
Requirements
  • Minimum 2-3 years of experience in a conference programming function.
  • Strong experience and passion for researching and developing conference content.
  • Strong time management skills with the ability to effectively multi-task.
  • Creative thinking, problem-solving with the ability to think on your feet.
  • High level of proficiency in the use of computer software and online platforms, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Adobe Acrobat, and social media.
  • Project-oriented with superior attention to detail and excellent organizational and prioritization skills.
  • Excellent English written, verbal, and telephone communication skills, customer service-oriented, and comfortable working in in-person environments.
  • Strong team player who interacts easily with external clients, vendors, and internal teams.
  • Self-starter with the ability to work independently as well as part of a team.
  • Knowledge of, or experience working in the design, building, construction, or real estate industries is an advantage.

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