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Job title: Events Content Producer
Location: Guildford
Hours: Full Time, although flexible working will be considered
Salary: £25k-£30k pa
Job description:
We have a very exciting opportunity for an Events Content Producer to join the award-winning team at Raccoon Media Group.
Reporting to the Head of Content, the successful candidate will assist in the curation and delivery of the content for a growing portfolio of events in the UK and the USA.
Key responsibilities include:
- Research the market and spot industry trends to curate and plan unique and relevant and bookended content programmes for each event and to continuously reinvigorate the content programme
- Speaker acquisition, including negotiating speaker contracts to adhere to budgets
- Liaise with the marketing team to ensure that agendas go ‘live’ in a timely fashion and to create a joined-up approach to the marketing effort
- Work with the Event Directors and sales team to ensure that content timelines fit within the project flow
- Support the Head of Content as required
- Attend the events, manage the stages and speakers on-site, and monitor/review sessions for quality control
- Design and create on-site materials (holding slides, agendas, etc) as required
- Deliver pre-show speaker briefings and documentation
- Maintain the events’ speaker databases and other relevant administrative tasks
- Manage website speaker content – profiles and agendas
Experience & skills:
- Events industry experience preferred
- Experience working in a fast-paced environment
- Strong work ethic
- Creative mindset
- Is personable, friendly and approachable
- Has excellent attention to detail
- Is organized and has good time management skills
- Is proactive and self-motivated
- Has an interest in activity, health and wellbeing
- IT Literate
How to apply
Please apply today with your current CV to ashley.cox@raccoonmediagroup.com
Event Sales Executive/ Account Manager
Location: Guildford
Hours: Full Time
Salary: £30k p/a pro rata (depending on experience) + Uncapped sales commission
Job description:
We have a very exciting opportunity to join the award-winning team at Raccoon Media Group, as we continue to grow.
The focus of the role is to support the Event Director with targeted stand and sponsorship sales with the opportunity to develop skills in event management and to progress.
Key responsibilities include:
- Selling exhibition space and sponsorship and digital packages
- Managing and upselling existing accounts
- Lead sourcing new business opportunities
- Cold calling new prospects
- Proactively dealing with all incoming enquiries to ensure that they are dealt with in an efficient and professional manner
- In person meetings when necessary
- Timely completion of related admin including CRM system data input and management
- Attending competitor and industry events, may require travel both UK and overseas
Experience & skills:
- Sales experience in a media setting (preferred but not mandatory)
- Strong negotiation skills
- Personable, friendly, and approachable
- Excellent attention to detail
- Organised and has good time management skills
- Proactive and self-motivated
Training will be provided.
About us:
Raccoon Media Group is a dynamic, high-growth events business focused on health and wellbeing markets. Our events are well-timed, community-driven, tightly focused and passion-led. We bring buyers and sellers together to see cutting edge innovations in a fun and exciting way.
- We are a company that deliver on our promises and commitments to internal and external partners
- We are a service business and we aim to respond to all internal and external comms within 1 working day
- We support flexible working, we are achievement-based not hours based
- We are a trust-based business that believes in empowering people through delegation
- Diversity is important to us and we operate a policy of conscious inclusion
- We are one team and we are all in it together
- We challenge the status quo, we are innovative and open-minded
- We focus on our environmental impact
How to apply
Please apply today with your current CV to admin@raccoonmediagroup.com
Got a great idea and want to work with the team at Raccoon? There are three ways to do this…
1. Purchase: You have a great idea and you would like us to buy the idea from you for a mutually acceptable sum. The value we pay is linked to:
- How developed is the idea? (is it a workable business plan or an idea)
- How tested is the idea? (conversations with partners, exhibitors, visitors etc)
- Are there clear recommendations in the plan? (timeline, location, venue etc)
- How much work is required to make this into a viable event?
- How much risk is there?
- What are the capital requirements?
2. Purchase and Employ: We buy the idea from you for a mutually acceptable sum and you come and work on the event (you would need to interview for a specific role in either sales, marketing, content, finance, management or operations).
3. Employ and Equity: You work on the event in a specific role but at a lower fee in exchange for an equity stake in the business.
Join our Sales Development Academy
Raccoon’s Sales Development Academy is a comprehensive, immersive program designed to fast-track graduates into successful sales professionals within the Events and Media industry. Over the course of 12-18 months, participants will be exposed to various aspects of the sales process, develop key commercial skills, and gain hands-on experience in a fast paced, entrepreneurial environment. Find out more here.