Conference Event Producer
Bisnow · Houston, TX · Yesterday
HybridManufacturingFull-time
Bisnow Overview
Bisnow is the leading B2B media platform powering the commercial real estate industry. We connect CRE professionals through award-winning news, high-impact events, marketing solutions, recruiting services, and sales enablement tools that drive real business results. With 1.7M+ subscribers and 400+ events annually across 47 markets in the U.S., Canada, the UK, Ireland, and the Netherlands, we don’t just cover the industry, we help move it forward.
Key Responsibilities
- Identify potential speakers & establish contact with said individuals; persistently recruit prospects using phone and email
- Educate potential speakers on why it makes sense to spend their time speaking at one of your events
- With your team, build from scratch and then manage the event experience. This involves researching out-of-the-box content ideas, recruiting and placing C-level executives on each conference, working side-by-side with sales to drive sponsorship and managing the event experience throughout the entire process
- Work with different departments at Bisnow to reach goals that can often be lofty. Bisnow is a sales-driven business and this role is one that requires an individual who can work with and support the sales team in achieving shared goals, no matter how ambitious they might be
- Utilize and establish contacts within the community to promote Bisnow and event attendance including partnerships with associations and local groups
- Diligently research CRE, programming ideas and top-notch speakers for your events
- Manage speaker relations and touchpoints - from the idea of the event to day-of execution
- Provide excellent service, support and communication to event speakers & sponsors
- Lead pre and post-event meetings by providing direction, guidance, and feedback to all involved
- Persistently brainstorm fresh and relevant topic ideas with your teams to adapt to trends within the industry
- Constantly look for innovative solutions to improve content and the attendee experience at your events
- Manage multiple events in various stages of production. This requires you to be extremely organized, detailed and have good time management skills
What are we looking for?
- 1 - 5 years of live event production or property management experience
- Detail-oriented and deadline-driven, with very strong project management and meticulous organizational skills
- Ability to manage, develop and launch multiple projects under time-sensitive deadlines
- Great teammate with strong verbal and written communication skills
- Hands-on, roll up your sleeves worth ethic. Tenacity is expected
- The ability to establish and maintain relationships with key people in CRE
- Commitment to accuracy, quality, consistency and transparency
- Creativity and a healthy sense of humor
- Flexibility and the ability to handle situations creatively as well as jump into projects as needed and the initiative to notice a need and offer assistance where applicable
- Receptive to feedback and always open to constructive criticism
- The ability to work in a high-energy, fast-paced environment
- Demonstrated interest in commercial real estate
- Innate hustle, raw intelligence, infectious enthusiasm and intellectual curiosity
- Entrepreneurial and ambitious
- Never give up attitude. Positive mental state of mind and a strong desire to be challenged on a daily basis
What's in it for you?
- Competitive compensation structure including base salary + bonuses!
- Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance
- Short and Long Term Disability Insurance - includes maternity and paternity leaves as well
- 401K
- Flexible Spending Account
- Health Savings Account
- Dependent Care Account
- Unlimited Vacation Days
- 7 days paid sick leave
- 9 paid Holidays
- Referral Bonus Program
- Pet Friendly Offices
- You’ll get to work with incredibly smart, passionate, driven, ambitious, kind, caring and mindful people and will rarely experience an overload of policies, bureaucracy or toxicity (the latter, we do not tolerate)
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- Curious
- Self-Aware
- Fearless
- Consistent
- Entrepreneurial
- Challenging the status quo
- Inclusive, fighting racism, gender bias and all forms of inequality
- Never peak, never quit, never have excuses, own our failures and commit to being smarter and stronger because of them
- Give our best today and even better tomorrow
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