Conference Producer, Fixed Income Events, FT Live

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The Role / Position Overview

The Fixed Income Events Division of FT Live is a fast-paced, tight knit team of 35 people laser-focussed on creating the best deal-making events for the structured finance, bond market and private credit communities. We are a portfolio of ten best-in-class events including the famous industry events Global ABS (29 years old, 5000 people in Barcelona), ABS East (31 years old, 6000 people in Miami), FT Global Bond Summit (35 years old, 800 people in London) and the CEE Forum (31 years old, 2000 people in Vienna) and fast-growing launches like Private Credit Connect: London which launched this year with over 600 attendees.

Financial Times Live (FT Live) is the conferences and events division of the Financial Times newspaper and its group publications. Our mission is to bring our global executive audiences the very latest in knowledge and opinion, and connect them to one another.

From unique experiences such as the FTWeekend Festival to our senior-level business summits such as the award winning Global Boardroom, FT Live has become one of the FT Group’s most successful and fastest-growing divisions, and is at the forefront of the FT’s accelerated development as an essential, interactive information source across numerous platforms.

About the Role

The Fixed Income Events portfolio is a key growth and transformation area within the Fixed Income Events team at FT Live. As we accelerate the development of our bond market portfolio, we are seeking a Conference Producer who combines strong programme-building skills with the ability to cultivate relationships across the market to launch content led, commercially viable events.

Reporting to the Product Director, you will produce market-leading conferences, build relationships within specific communities to support the portfolio’s continued expansion.

Key Responsibilities

Event Production

• Lead the research, development and execution of high-impact capital market conference programmes within the existing event architecture. Launching new products for adjacent communities to grow the scope of the flagship events.
• Thorough market mapping to identify emerging themes, structural trends and priority participants.
• Build commercially compelling, insight-led agendas aligned with portfolio growth objectives.
• Secure senior and influential speakers across issuers, investors, banks and service providers
• Work closely with Sales to ensure content supports sponsorship conversations and regional growth priorities.
• Collaborate with Marketing and Operations to ensure strong positioning, messaging and seamless delivery.
• Travel internationally to support relationship building, speaker recruitment, sales efforts and on-site execution.

Market Outreach and Community Expansion

• Market outreach (via research calls and in person meetings) to really understand the market dynamics and what its participants want from our events
• Seek and build out new communities- for example communities via role type (investor, issuer or bookrunner) or via geographic location (eg at a country or at a regional level.
• Engage in industry discussions, meeting regularly with key market players, travelling to meet with market participants to understand their requirements.
• Build a database of connections in specific communities, and work with the audience development team to maximise outreach
• Ignite and drive commercial conversations- always be looking for potential new partners and working hand in hand with the sales team to build commercial opportunities and relationships
• Create personable and committed event outreach plans and marketing communications with the marketing team to drive customer engagement and interest
• Develop and deliver curated formats including roundtables, breakfasts, lunches and working group sessions for specific communities within the wider community

About You

• A confident relationship builder, comfortable engaging senior investors, government officials and market leaders.
• Curious about financial markets and motivated to understand how they evolve.
• Highly organised and proactive, with strong communication skills.
• Strategic in thinking but delivery-focused in execution.
• Being self-motivated to drive the events vision in line with company goals
• Commercially aware and able to see how strong community engagement drives portfolio growth.
• Ideally, 2-3 year’s experience as a conference producer or in a relationship management role

What’s in it for You?

Our benefits vary by location but we are committed to providing best-in-class perks across all our offices. These include generous annual leave, medical cover, inclusive parental leave packages, subsidised gym memberships and opportunities to give back to the community. Full details of our benefits are available here.

We’ve embraced a 50% hybrid working model (averaging two to three days onsite) that fosters trust and remote adaptability while encouraging in-person camaraderie and peer learning. Additionally, we are open to accommodating specific flexible working pattern requests for all roles where feasible.

Accessibility

We are a disability confident employer and Valuable 500 signatory.

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