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Established in 2003, Green Power Conferences was the first to offer professionally organised events focusing on the sustainability sector. Over the last five years, we have welcomed over 5500 delegates from 76 countries and built a global database of 150,000+ contacts. Our expertise lies in producing high quality, interactive conferences that provide ample networking opportunities for delegates and partners alike.
Each event is developed by a team of market research professionals who ensure our events provide in-depth discussions and the latest industry updates in these fast-moving sectors. With a global portfolio of 35 events, Green Power Conferences is helping to accelerate the uptake of sustainable business practices from Rio to Hong Kong. We also walk the talk, by offsetting all our commercial activities through renewable energy projects around the world.
The company directors have a personal belief in, as well as a professional commitment to sustainable technologies, this combined with their considerable experience operating commercial, profit-focused events has made Green Power Conferences the market leading event organizer in the sustainable energy sector.
The company has attracted wealth of talent and experience from the events industry and is continually looking to expand.
Current Vacancies
Senior Marketing Executive
The role:
Reporting to the Marketing Manager; the Senior Marketing Executive will be expected to plan, budget and implement the marketing strategy for 20 events throughout the year: A typical Green Power Conference attracts between 40-100 senior level, fee paying delegates and may have some sponsorship or an exhibition alongside.
The Senior Marketing Executive will be expected to plan, budget and implement the marketing strategy and deliverables for each event, working closely with the events team and the sponsorship and exhibition sales (SPEX) team to ensure each event is a commercial success.
The candidate must be analytical, understand and value marketing databases, spend a lot of time performing customer and performance analysis and be good with Excel.
Green Power Conferences is a fast growing, successful company with an excellent workforce operating in an exciting market. Our people have a great deal of responsibility and direct involvement in their products – we employ the best and they are rewarded with profit share and career building experience: If you do not consider yourself the best event marketer at your level: you need not apply.
Key responsibilities:
- Work with the research team to gain a comprehensive understanding of the target audience/prospects for your products
- Create a marketing universe for each product by mining the database, performing gap analysis, researching new lists and designing strategies/solutions where gaps exist
- Work directly with the SPEX sales and delegate sales teams to generate sales leads through targeted marketing campaigns
- Build relationships with event supporters, stake holders and media partners to access new data and marketing channels
- Produce realistic, budgeted but creative marketing plans to deliver paying delegates and profit for your events
- Manage and implement the marketing deliverables according to the plans
- Measure response, perform tests and adjust accordingly
- Report key performance figures to the management team
- Develop the portfolio of products and Identify new business opportunities
Requirements:
- Minimum 3 years marketing experience, with at least 2 years marketing commercial, B2B fee-based conferences aimed at senior level executives
- Must have experience working with Sponsorship/exhibition sales teams
- Must have experience managing leads for delegate sales people (telesales)
- Ability to plan and manage integrated marketing activities across a number of products simultaneously, including managing the event budgets
- Excellent understanding of Direct Marketing principles and practice
- Good IT skills, in particular; Excel and email marketing platforms
- Experience of, and a good understanding of marketing and CRM databases
Desirable but not essential:
- Additional languages
- Professional marketing qualification such as IDM or CIM, or marketing degree
- Experience in the sustainability and green energy sectors
The Package:
This is an ideal opportunity to join an exciting company, in a developing market. The Senior Marketing Executive will be given plenty of responsibility and the opportunity to take ownership of their product portfolio, but there is also ample support within this close and professional team.
Training is provided, career development encouraged, work-life balance is valued and flexible working is accommodated.
Salary: £ Competitive and negotiable depending on experience.
Applications:
Please send your CV and a covering email to recruitment@greenpowerconferences.com
FAO: Dan Gorringe, Marketing Director
About Green Power Conferences:
Established in 2003, Green Power Conferences was the first to offer professionally organised events focusing on the sustainability sector. Over the last five years, we have welcomed over 8000 delegates from 92 countries and built a global database of 450,000+ contacts. Our expertise lies in producing high quality, interactive conferences that provide ample networking opportunities for delegates and partners alike.
Each event is developed by a team of market research professionals who ensure our events provide in-depth discussions and the latest industry updates in these fast-moving sectors. With a global portfolio of 50+ events, Green Power Conferences is helping to accelerate the uptake of sustainable business practices from Rio to Hong Kong. We also walk the talk, by offsetting all our commercial activities through renewable energy projects around the world.
Green Power Conferences is a commercial B2B conference organiser, operating only in the sustainability sector.
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Internship Programme:
3 Internships are offered on a rotating basis in each of the areas of research, marketing and logistics. Please send a cover email and CV to internships@greenpowerconferences.com We welcome interns from all backgrounds and nationalities.
Green Power Conferences aims to abide by the Good Practice Guidelines for Ethical Internship.
Below are the Ten Points of the guidelines, each followed by what we're doing to try to achieve them.
Ethical Guidelines for Internships
Maximising value and productivity
- Interns should be made to feel welcome and valued in the working environment; they should have adequate workspace, resources and contact time with line-managers and other staff. - Each Intern has their own computer and desk. Interns are always welcome to talk to staff, along with being able to participate in regular meetings.
- Interns should be offered all possible opportunities to learn about the workplace; be allowed to read publications and other materials, ask questions and attend meetings where appropriate. - Interns are welcome to attend most meetings on request, come to events and engage in most tasks in the office.
- Green Power Conferences should try to ensure that interns gain valuable experience and skills; work should include some challenging and stimulating tasks. - Interns are taken in as part of the research, marketing and logistics teams, and take part in a range of activities. Less interesting tasks are shared amongst all interns, and efforts are made to make sure they do not impede on their other tasks.
- Interns should have an exit interview, with an appraisal of their performance and work and an opportunity to give feedback on their experience. - This is offered to all interns and they are encouraged to keep in contact with Green Power Conferences after they leave.
Working transparently
- Green Power Conferences should be up-front about forthcoming employment opportunities and should take care not to raise false hopes. - It is made clear at the beginning of the internship that it is not designed as a path to a job.
- Interns should be given a clear idea of their responsibilities and possible tasks, within which both employer and intern can work flexibly. - We try to make sure that as much information about the internships as possible is given on our website. Potential interns are encouraged to ask any questions they have both before and during their internships.
- Interns should be recruited through openly advertised competition; positions should not simply be offered to contacts. Specific adverts should be placed for interns and we state clearly that we also consider ad-hoc applications. We generally receive a lot of our enquiries via this website
Being fair
- Interns should receive reasonable expenses and employers should make efforts to ensure that internships are available to all, irrespective of background or ability to support oneself.- Expenses up to a value of £75 per week are offered for food and travel.
- Green Power Conferences are sensitive to the pressures of working for free; where possible, they should allow part-time working and should not expect interns to continue unpaid for extended periods. Where suitable, internal work which might otherwise be outsourced (list research and data-entry for example), should be offered to interns as a means of earning extra cash. Interns that are required to stay on for longer than their planned period of work are offered temporary contracts.
- Green Power Conferences will offer interns advice on pursuing their chosen career path. Where appropriate, we will share contacts and experience to help interns find paid work. They should offer tips on writing CVs and covering letters, and on interview-technique. - Such career advice is given and employees are happy to give appropriate contacts that might be helpful with an interns particular interests. Each intern has a mentor who will do their best to help in this respect.
If you feel that Green Power Conferences does not live up to its ethical internship guidelines, or can think of a way in which we could be doing more towards them, please contact internships@greenpowerconferences.com
Internship example - Type of work
Internship aims to involve successful candidates in a wide variety of Green Power Conferences' activities in either research, marketing or logistics. Ideally, we are looking for undergraduates and recent graduates of any discipline who are interested in environmental industry, renewable energy and climate change, and want to gain valuable experience.
As a research intern you will either be assigned to one or more projects or a specific project area. Green Power Conferences focuses on six areas: renewable energy, climate change policy/carbon markets, sustainable industry, bioenergy and water sustainability. The role of assisting in research projects is varied, but at some time or another your responsibilities are likely to include:
Desk based research
This might include anything from doing statistical analysis to google searches. Finding new media partners, searching for target speakers contact details, writing briefing notes etc.
Conference Agendas
Interns get involved in helping the production of GPC agenda’s, from conception to the final draft.
The GPC Network
A common intern task is to expand the GPC database and network by, for example, finding people to invite to GPC events.
Events
Interns can be asked to help out with, organising a wide range of project-related events and activities, from designing the structure of the event to sorting out the food and drink and attending an event.
Office administration
In addition all interns are expected to help with the day-to-day working of the office, assisting with such basic tasks as mail-outs, photocopying, building dbases and answering the telephone. These tasks are shared between all interns through a rota system, so at the most you'll spend 2 hours per day on admin tasks.
Having fun
The GPC office is a highly enjoyable place to work and learn.
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