Job Description
Portfolio Manager - Insurance Events
£60,000-£70,000 Base + Profit Share
Fully Remote
Do you have a solid track record of growing B2B financial services events? Are you a great leader of people?
We're looking for a Head of Insurance Events to take a strong existing portfolio of conferences and scale its impact, quality, and commercial performance.
This is a hands-on leadership role combining strategic vision, content excellence, and team development.
You'll lead from the front-spotting emerging industry trends, refreshing and strengthening existing event propositions, securing senior-level speakers, and ensuring our conferences remain relevant, engaging, and must-attend fixtures in the insurance calendar.
With a strong focus on product development, you'll nurture and mature the existing portfolio-enhancing formats, optimising performance, and driving sustained revenue growth.
You'll also bring creative thinking to identify new revenue streams within established event frameworks, ensuring each product continues to evolve and deliver commercial impact.
You'll lead a small, ambitious team of producers, developing capability and setting clear expectations around quality and delivery.
Profile Required: Portfolio Manager - Insurance Events
- 6+ years' experience in conference production, with a strong track record of delivering high-quality events
- Minimum 2 years' experience managing and developing Conference Producers
- Experience within insurance, banking, or wider financial services sectors
- Exceptional research, agenda development, and speaker acquisition skills
- Confident communicator with the ability to engage and influence senior-level stakeholders on strategy, budgets, business plans, and feasibility assessments
- Highly organised, with excellent project management skills and the ability to manage multiple priorities effectively
- Strong commercial acumen, with experience driving sponsorship and delegate revenue growth
- Exposure to awards programmes a plus, as many conferences in the portfolio are co-located events
Lipton Media is a dynamic, proactive and progressive media recruitment agency solely dedicated to the media industry. We are leaders across media sales and creative opportunities. We cover: media sales, digital media sales, print sales, exhibition sales, event sales, conference sales, outdoor sales, radio sales, marketing, conference production and editorial jobs.
Our clients range from small start-up companies to FTSE 100 and 250 businesses. We work with people at every stage of their career from undergraduates looking for their first entry point into sales to senior managers and directors looking for their next challenge.
