The opportunity

From material science to consumer psychology, sustainability to the digital transformation, manufacturing to creative design, multinational brands to innovative start-ups – packaging is a vast and diverse world.

Easyfairs is right at the centre of that world. We organise Europe’s biggest network of events for people involved in creating, developing and manufacturing the packaging that all of us use every day. Through our events, we connect that community; and we help define the future of packaging.

We’re currently working on a range of exciting plans to develop our events and our digital products in order to connect and inspire our community better than ever before. And as part of those plans, we are looking for a Conference and Community Executive to join our team based in Paris.

The role

The Conference and Community Executive is a crucial role within the marketing team for our market-defining annual French events: Paris Packaging Week.

These event brands serve the community that innovates, designs, develops and manufactures Beauty, Luxury, Premium & Luxe, Aerosols products and packaging all around the world. The Conference and Community Executive will help us connect with that community year-round; and ensure we deliver content in a range of formats that inspires the community and helps it solve its key challenges.

Reporting to the Content and Community Director and working alongside the marketing manager for the event, the role has four main missions:

• Develop and deepen our relationships with the top influencers in the packaging market – in particular the main retailers and brand owners like Chanel, LVMH, Unilever, Nestle, Beiersdorf, Pernod-Ricard, MHCS and many more.

• Develop and deliver our event content – recruiting the sharpest speakers, defining topics and formats, and working on event features that will inspire the market and address its key challenges.

• Define and deliver a year-round multi-channel content strategy that will connect and inspire our community –through regular newsletters, surveys, webinars, publications, round tables, social media and more.

• Reinforce and develop the awards and students challenge, associations and schools partnerships – recruiting new jury members especially for the new launch of fourth award dedicated to luxury. Engage more associations (especially in drinks ans Luxury side) and schools for the show.

All of this will help us to develop and grow our audiences for the events; but more importantly, they will help us fulfil our broader mission to help our communities to innovate and build a better future.

About you

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; curiosity and interest - desire to discover the sector and its challenges, or existing knowledge of packaging and/or FMCG, desire to go and see people to do this

• 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 (senior) 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.

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.