Portfolio Manager - Insurance Events
Location: Remote within England and Wales (with occasional days in the office e.g. once per month in Bromley, South East London/Kent)
Permanent/Full-time
Salary: £60,000-£68,000 (DOE) & Profit Share
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 Portfolio Manager for our 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 (across both P&C and Captive Insurance).
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.
What's In It For You
You'll join a high‑performing team that values autonomy, collaboration, and ambition. We'll give you the support and tools to succeed, plus a culture that rewards results and innovation.
Here's what you can expect:
- Hybrid working: No mandated office days - you choose how you work best.
- Earning potential: Competitive basic salary plus profit share structure.
- Brilliant benefits: Enjoy unlimited holiday, Health Shield cash plan, income protection, death in service cover and lots more because we believe in looking after our people.
- Collaborative culture: Work alongside experienced colleagues who are passionate about events, publishing, and creating connections that matter.
About Us
Newton Media is a leading B2B media and events company, delivering market‑leading conferences, awards, and publications across multiple sectors. Our mission is to connect professionals, spark insight, and drive growth.
Requirements
What you'll be doing
- Lead and develop a team of 2 Conference Producers (junior and senior), ensuring they have the training, resources, and direction needed to deliver against KPIs and key deadlines.
- Produce 3-4 conferences annually (primarily repeat events), alongside a small number of webinars.
- Drive product development, scaling early‑stage events into sustainable mid‑sized products.
- Grow existing events, increasing attendance and elevating overall quality and market positioning.
- Lead the event marketing in collaboration with the marketing function-driving best practice, innovation, strong copy, and data‑led decision‑making to ensure ROI.
- Maintain rigorous quality control across the portfolio, ensuring agendas, speakers, and marketing outputs meet high editorial standards and house style.
- Own delegate revenue performance (both on own events and wider insurance portfolio) developing and executing plans to meet financial targets and ensure high‑quality audiences.
- Partner with commercial teams to maximise sponsorship revenue, ensuring products are marketable and commitments to sponsors are consistently delivered.
- Inspire and mentor the team, fostering a high‑performance, collaborative culture and implementing effective training and development plans.
- Continuously innovate event formats, using performance insights and collaboration with editorial, to enhance content, audience engagement, and overall event experience.
What you’ll need
- Experience within insurance, banking, or wider financial services sectors.
- Minimum 2 years’ experience managing and developing Conference Producers.
- 6+ years’ experience in conference production, with a strong track record of delivering high‑quality events.
- 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.
Benefits
Our Commitment to Inclusion
Newton Media is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels valued, respected, and empowered to thrive. Please note that applicants must have the right to work in the UK, as we are unable to provide visa sponsorship.
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