Sector Head - New Events - 6 month FTC

We envisage the successful candidate being based in London with hybrid working available.

Want to combine your leadership skills, creativity and commercial acumen to drive revenue growth on our newest portfolios? This might just be the role for you. 

Reuters Events are looking for a Sector Head to lead a team and ensure the commercial success of our newest conference initiatives and content portfolios.

Our flagship events across 10+ industries feature leading figures from international governments, alongside CEOs from fortune 500 companies. Many of these discussions are hosted in conjunction with Reuters Editorial and are published on Reuters.com and broadcast to millions across the globe.

Our events, reports, magazine and other outputs are helping companies make meaningful connections and gain trusted insights to help move their businesses, and industries, forward in times of change and disruption.

About the Role 

As a Sector Head for Reuters Events, you will:  

Lead the new events division and develop both the strategic and commercial management of these events in new and existing industry verticals

Lead on business planning, identify new opportunities, manage research teams and build new ideas into our continually evolving business model, working with industry sector heads to do so

 You’ll be key to launching new events and will ensure that our world-class events meet industry needs, deliver a great customer experience and achieve our performance goals.  

Line manage Conference Producers (both FTE and freelancers), overseeing team performance, resourcing and development. 

You will be supported by the senior leadership team to oversee your sector and ensure quality control, people management, resourcing and performance. 

Work with sales leads and marketing management to support on managing early database and community building to support new event ideas

About You 

You're a fit for the role of Sector Head at Reuters Events if you have:  

The desire to combine your commercial acumen with your leadership skills to effectively deliver new events

Demonstrable experience of managing a team to commercial success.  

Great communication skills with a collaborative mindset.  

To work collaboratively with teams across the business to deliver events successfully and think of strategic ways in which we can develop new events in line with what our customers want.   

Please Note: Complete applications must be submitted by 23:59 on Monday 3rd February. Early applications are encouraged.

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What's in it For You?

You will join our inclusive culture of world-class talent, where we are committed to your personal and professional growth through:

Hybrid Work Model: We’ve adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected

Wellbeing: Comprehensive benefit plans; flexible and supportive benefits for work-life balance: flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days Off; work from another location for up to a total of 8 weeks in a year, 4 of those weeks can be out of the country and the remaining in the country, Headspace app subscription; retirement, savings, tuition reimbursement, and employee incentive programs; resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.

Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for equality, diversity and inclusion, flexibility, work-life balance, and more.

Learning & Development: LinkedIn Learning access; internal Talent Marketplace with opportunities to work on projects cross-company; Ten Thousand Coffees Thomson Reuters café networking.

Social Impact: Ten employee-driven Business Resource Groups; two paid volunteer days annually; Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) initiatives for local and global impact.

Purpose Driven Work: We have a superpower that we’ve never talked about with as much pride as we should – we are one of the only companies on the planet that helps its customers pursue justice, truth and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.

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We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments that celebrate diversity and inclusion. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward. 

Accessibility 

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We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.

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