Content & Community Executive
We’re looking for a forward-thinking, energetic Content and Community Executive to join our team in Twickenham!
No agencies please.
Please note, we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role.
The Opportunity:
From sustainability and material science to consumer psychology, digital transformation, creative design, and cutting-edge manufacturing – packaging is an endlessly exciting and diverse world.
Easyfairs is at the heart of this vibrant landscape. We organise Europe’s largest network of events for the innovators and visionaries who create, develop, and manufacture the packaging we interact with every day. Through our events, we connect this dynamic community and shape the future of packaging.
With bold plans to expand our events and digital products, we’re setting the stage to inspire and engage our community like never before. As part of this thrilling journey, we’re looking for a forward-thinking, energetic Conference and Community Executive to join our team in Twickenham.
The Conference and Community Executive plays a vital role in the marketing team for two of our flagship UK events: Packaging Innovations & Empack at the NEC in Birmingham, and London Packaging Week. These event brands serve the UK’s packaging community, encompassing the design, development, and manufacturing of FMCG products and packaging.
This role focuses on connecting with the community year-round and ensuring we deliver high-quality, engaging content across various formats. The Conference and Community Executive will contribute to the development of audiences for our events and help achieve our broader mission of inspiring innovation and enabling progress within the industry.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop and nurture relationships with key industry stakeholders:
- Build strong connections with top influencers in the packaging sector, including major retailers and brand owners such as Coca-Cola, Unilever, Nestle, Tesco, and Sainsbury’s.
- Content and event development:
- Collaborate on the design and delivery of event content, including recruiting expert speakers, defining engaging topics and formats, and enhancing event features that address the industry’s challenges.
- Year-round content strategy:
- Support the creation and execution of a multi-channel content strategy to engage the community through newsletters, surveys, webinars, publications, roundtables, social media, and other platforms.
- Support event audience growth:
- Help drive participation and engagement for events by understanding and addressing audience needs through thoughtful content and communication.
The ideal candidate:
We need someone with a creative approach to content development and the gravitas and charisma to mix it with the most important people in this sector.
This role requires someone with:
- Experience of developing and creating conferences, speaker relations and advisory boards;
- Great organisation and the ability to juggle multiple deadlines;
- Excellent presentation skills;
- Big picture thinking, adaptability and the ability to cope under pressure;
- Impeccable copywriting and proofing skills;
- Ability to analyse and understand a wide range of complex issues and express them in simple and engaging language;
- Confidence and curiosity to talk to a wide range of people – on the phone and face to face – and to understand what makes them tick;
- Ability to work independently and confidence in your own editorial judgment;
- Ability to use (or quickly learn) relevant software and systems, such as Microsoft Office, website CMS (we use Wordpress), email marketing platforms, Google Analytics and so on.
Who are we?
Easyfairs is a pan-European event company. We organise and host more than 200 events in 14 countries (Algeria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom) and we manage eight venues in Belgium, the Netherlands and Sweden. Our passion is to bring business communities and communities of interest together. We strive to “easify” the life of our customers and increase the return on their investment of time and money through all-in formulas, advanced technology and a customer-centric approach. The Easyfairs Group employs 750 highly committed talents. Our commitment to excellence has been recognised several times. We were named Belgium’s “Entrepreneur of the Year®” in 2018 and Deloitte has named us a “Best Managed Company” six years running (2019-24). The company is ranked 11th in the list of the world’s leading exhibition companies.
Benefits:
🎂 Birthday day off
🏡 Flexible working as well as hybrid working
👶 Enhanced family pay (maternity & paternity)
🚲 Cycle to work scheme
🚂 Interest free travel loans
📚 Free online academy to focus on professional development and upskilling
🧠 Specialist external performance coach services available to all employees
🤝 Employee assistance programme
👩⚕️ 24/7 access to our virtual GP service
🏆 Long service awards
💰 Pension as well as offering salary sacrifice
👪 Life cover
🔒 Group income protection
🍾 Fully stocked beer & wine fridge in the office
🎉 Regular company socials organised throughout the year
We understand that applicants can be put off applying for a job if they feel they don't fit all of the requirements. If you're excited about working for us and have most of the skills/ experience we're looking for, please go ahead and apply! Here at Easyfairs, we are passionate about the power of fostering a diverse, equitable and inclusive environment for our team to thrive in. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.
- Department
- Marketing
- Locations
- Twickenham
- Remote status
- Hybrid Remote
Twickenham
Content & Community Executive
We’re looking for a forward-thinking, energetic Content and Community Executive to join our team in Twickenham!
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