BUSINESSDAY is Nigeria’s leading and most influential business and financial daily newspaper written by some of the country’s best journalists. It is the favourite newspaper among Nigeria’s investor community. Published every week-day plus a weekend edition on Sundays, the newspaper is based in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital BUSINESSDAY and has syndication rights to contents from the Financial Times, The Economist, Reuters and Harvard Business Review. BUSINESSDAY was launched in July 2001 and covers all major national and international news, with a specific focus on Nigeria’s economy including its business sector, companies and financial markets. The newspaper also publishes daily an influential opinion segment with several popular columnists, along with coverage of leisure, travel and entertainment. Its website showcases some of the best content inside the newspaper daily and incorporates content produced by some content partners as well. BUSINESSDAY is currently working on a partial pay-wall which will be launched for its website in the near term but at the moment access to the site and the content remains free of charge, but when readers register on the site, for free, they gain access to a range of services including newsletter subscriptions, personalised news and article clippings.
You will be working in the group of Senior Team-Leads consisting of a number of like-minded and similarly qualified individuals.
Your job responsibilities include, but not limited to the following;
- Work closely with the General Manager, Conferences & Events to develop and execute plans and new opportunities for the department.
- Responsible forsales/marketing ofsponsorship for assigned conferences and events.
- Responsible for all assigned event and conferences operationsthroughout the year.
- Contribute to the ongoing achievement of team budgets/targets by managing events as required by business demands such as meeting with clients to discuss their needs and outlining sponsorship package options to meet these needs.
- Arranging and coordinating services, such as conference facilities, vendors, signage positioning, displays, audio-visual equipment, and accommodation for participants and sponsors.
- Managing, planning and implementing targeted and effective cross-channel marketing campaigns, with the goal of securing maximum delegate revenue.
- Working cross functionally, to define, manage and assist with the execution on the event goals, messages, audience generation/email campaigns, speaker plan, collateral, event website and registration, and event logistics.
- Provide the Conferences Manager with a clear marketing plan for each event.
- Manage and monitor the creation and scheduling of conference emails to the internal conference data lists, as per marketing schedule and Conference targets.
- Manage and monitor the Conference Marketing Executive to ensure events are promoted via relevant social media platforms, including (but not restricted to): Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter.
- Coordinate members of his/her assigned team to ensure that goals are met.
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