AFR Live, The Australian Financial Review’s premium events arm, is looking for a high-caliber individual with insight, intelligence, curiosity, creativity, drive, strong business instincts and natural salesmanship to further extend Australia’s premier series of business events.
As an AFR Live Conference Director you are responsible not just for researching, conceptualising, and creating the agendas of the events in your portfolio, but also for ensuring that they are commercially successful, editorially relevant, and delivered to the high standards expected of the Financial Review brand. This requires you to work collaboratively with our marketing, operations and partnership teams, and the AFR newsroom, as well as with the top Australian corporates and policymakers from which we draw our speakers, sponsors and partners.
Day to day you will:
- Create high-quality editorial events and initiatives
- Design compelling and original agendas
- Identify and secure the very best “hard-to-get” speakers
- Develop a sponsorship strategy for each event and secure sponsorship revenue
- Ensure smooth, timely and high-quality delivery of events
