Careers

Be your own boss

Confexco is a a 100% remote working company with colleagues spread across multiple regions. Our culture is of dedication, full ownership & empowerment. This is a place for people with integrity, who want to be the best at what they do, and who care about exceeding customer expectations. You will be part of a team where we all support each other, challenge each other, and use our best judgement.

Our Vision

Confexco was created as an International conference and exhibition company to fill the gaps within the knowledge sharing industry and help business executives solve their greatest challenges and ignite their imagination on what’s practical. 

We do this by understanding and analysing the problems executives are facing by fostering existing relationships and building new ones. 

We then create inspiring intentionally intimate environments, both in-person and virtual for meaningful conversations, with the most progressive experts, best-in-class practitioners and cutting-edge disruptors, who are going beyond convention and are successfully solving those very problems. 

Our Core Values

Please read our core values below, this is what we live for. If these resonate with you, you will not only thrive, but succeed in fulfilling our and your vision with ease. 

Open & Honest Communication 

We don’t just say it, we practice this: We listen, not just hear and YOU should feel very comfortable calling out issues knowing it will never affect the security of your position or even making a career move, in fact it will do the opposite, it will create a higher level of trust. It is all part of a healthy relationship for the greater good.

Solution Focussed / Full of New Ideas

You are constantly thinking of new ideas to take the business and your career forward. You are solution focussed, you bring solutions to weekly meetings to discuss, not problems. You transform problems into solutions & practical strategies to accomplish your goals. 

Highly Proactive

You are naturally a high energy person, who brings a strong sense of urgency and activity in achieving your goals. You bring high energy and positive team spirit to all obstacles.

Entrepreneurial 

You figure out stuff yourself. You display an owners attitude. If something needs to get done, you take action to do things yourself to get it done. Present new ideas to drive growth & improve efficiencies at weekly meetings, and ARE NOT AFRAID TO FAIL.

Contribute Your Best Self 

You want to do the best work possible. You regularly exceed the standards expected. You demonstrate consistently strong performance so colleagues can rely upon you. 

Strong Project Management & Attention To Detail.

You understand the importance of detailed project plans, feedback, reporting, issue lists, to-do lists & checklists. Your attention to detail is is second to none. 

Intellectually Curious 

You love learning and being progressive. You are interested in continuous self improvement, always looking to grow. You digest business books and talks at an insatiable rate. 

Product Excellence

Our product excellence comes first, it’s our true north. How we produce our products and our standards is one of our unique competitive advantages. Everyone in the organisation contributes to product excellence, regardless of function.  

Customers First

We are always creating value for the customer first before expecting anything in return, by making sure our customers are always at the center of our thoughts. We are always over delivering for our customers and not passing on responsibility. 

OPEN POSITIONS- WORK FROM HOME

Send your CV with cover letter and linkedIn profile to cs@confexco.com

SENIOR CONFERENCE PRODUCER

Responsibilities:

  • Build a portfolio of market leading events virtual and in-person conferences.
  • Conduct telephone research and produce detailed benefit driven need-to-know agendas reflecting today’s burning issues, while also delivering a program with strong buy-side/sell-side
  • Source and invite fresh high-level speakers and industry leaders who can address the need-to-know issues reflected in the agenda you created.
  • Write all event site copy, marketing copy and sales & marketing briefs.
  • Present briefs to sales & marketing providing clear strategies and constant support to drive revenue growth.
  • Hit research calls and speaker acquisition targets and deliver an innovative product schedule of events that meet and exceed profitability targets.

Requirements:

  • You are fully committed to working from home and working region specific hours
  • 2+ years demonstrable conference production and topic generation experience.
  • Commercially minded with a strong interest in understanding Business Transformation & Operational Excellence topics.
  • Exceptional verbal and written communication skills.
  • High Energy, Resilient, Positive, & Confident. You’re outgoing and are confident researching with and recruiting senior industry leaders as speakers.
  • Highly organised. and with a self motivated can-do work ethic, willing to put the hours in to hit deadlines.
  • You need to have natural tech prowess, and be proficient in the myriad systems, apps, and plugins to maximize the digital products experience, collaboration, productivity and automation.
  • For the products you manage, you will be the main point of contact person through the whole product delivery cycle and hence it is important you are a detail-oriented multi-tasker with excellent organizational skills, you have exceptional time management skills and you thrive in a deadline driven environment.
  • You are highly curious, inquisitive, & ambitious with the desire to be the best at whatever you do.
  • Ability to work under pressure, to tight deadlines with minimal management
  • High degree of interest in current business issues and industry trends

SPONSORSHIP SALES MANAGER

Responsibilities

  • Driving sponsorship sales on superior content driven in-person and virtual events and an array of digital products.
  • Building a strong understanding of competitive landscape and your event USP.
  • Developing a comprehensive Sales Plan, including analysis of the vendor market place and defining commercial categories and priorities. The result is an effective sales activity plan. 
  • Producing a comprehensive Strategy Plan to your target market to ensure high conversions.
  • Identifying new product opportunities
  • Adopting a consultative approach in order to build key relationships within the industry. 
  • Build custom sponsorship propositions that deliver on customers’ objectives, and present professional sales proposals
  • Build and maintain a comprehensive pipeline of qualified prioritised leads to meet revenue forecasts and report weekly on the same.
  • Deliver against agreed effort and revenue targets
  • Effective time management to ensure objectives are delivered.
  • Accurate forecasting and reporting.

 Requirements

  • You are fully committed to working remotely, and this is not a temporary measure due to Covid-19. Your home office set-up is geared for high productivity working. 
  • Consultative sales (inside sales) experience within a B2B environment with a leading brand name and a minimal of 2 year (inside sales) within a leading commercial conference sponsorship sales department.
  • Deep understanding of Value Selling.
  • Exceptional verbal and written communication skills. Top-notch writing skills are essential.
  • You need to have natural tech prowess, and be proficient in the myriad systems, apps, and plugins to maximise the digital products experience, collaboration, productivity and automation. 
  • Effective telephone skills, with strong closing ability
  • An ability to rapidly understand new topics and industries and identify the key sectors to sell into
  • Flawless communicator with exceptional interpersonal skills
  • Sales planning & accurate sales forecasting
  • Internet research, cold calling, prospecting, probing, lead generation and closing
  • Able to clearly uncover the customer’s individual needs while accurately testing specific solutions for a strong match.
  • Able to sell/negotiate high-level packages in a consultative style
  • It is important for you to be a strategic thinker and have a driven attitude to work autonomously & surpass targets.
  • A proven track record of new business is a must. 
  • Positive, Confident and Professional. A Can-Do Work Ethic. Willing to put the hours in to hit deadlines. High Energy, Resilient and Well Organised.
  • Can work out complex problems and find solutions on your own initiative.
  • Willing to working the hours related to the conference staging location e.g. Dubai, and able to travel internationally to run events.

DELEGATE SALES MANAGER

Responsibilities

  • Achieve sales targets
  • Fully understand your event topics and the issues driving each industry, and communicate them to senior executives
  • Manage the entire sales cycle, from prospecting to pitching to closing
  • Keep abreast of market developments, identify and research new growth areas for delegate sales
  • Work closely with Production, Marketing and Sponsorship functions to deliver successful events
  • Accurately forecast, report activities and results
  • Proactively undertake telephone research, identify and establish new business leads, whilst also capitalising on warm or existing leads generated internally.
  • Carry out necessary sales activities to meet agreed sales targets and objectives
  • Actively seek to build long-term relationships
  • Liaise with the Conference Producer on designated campaigns to maximise opportunities in order to achieve mutual objective of delivering successful and profitable conferences

 Requirements

  • You are fully committed to working remotely, and this is not a temporary measure due to Covid-19. Your home office set-up is geared for high productivity working. 
  • At least 2 years proven track record in Conference Delegate Sales within the B2B commercial conference sector
  • A graduate with good business acumen and the ability to digest complex market knowledge fast
  • You build rapport well and feel confident cold calling clients
  • Exceptional verbal and written communication skills. Top-notch writing skills are essential.
  • You need to have natural tech prowess, and be proficient in the myriad systems, apps, and plugins to maximise the digital products experience, collaboration, productivity and automation. 
  • You are comfortable selling delegate tickets to c-level executives
  • Lots of nature initiative
  • Motivated by money and a hunger for hitting targets.
  • Strong closing ability and experience selling on launch events across different industry sectors
  • High degree of interest in current business issues and industry trends
  • An ability to rapidly understand new topics and industries and identify the key sectors to sell into.
  • Internet research, cold calling, prospecting, probing, lead generation and closing
  • A demonstrable track record of exceeding targets
  • Positive, Confident and Professional. A Can-Do Work Ethic. Willing to put the hours in to hit deadlines. High Energy, Resilient and Well Organised. Can work out complex problems and find solutions on your own initiative.
  • Willing to working the hours related to the conference staging location e.g. APAC, Middle East