Senior Event Delivery Producer

Your Team: News Live is the events engine for News UK, producing more than 200 events each year that bring our world-class brands to life. We operate as a high-performance team, seamlessly scaling to match the ambition and pace of the business. Our work is built on three pillars: Elevate, Innovate, and Connect, ensuring we deliver excellence through people who care deeply and work with intent.

Your Role: As a Senior Event Delivery Producer, you will be a hands-on delivery expert leading the growth of our B2C and Corporate events. Reporting to the Operations Director, you will work in strategic partnership with the Head of Event Delivery to uphold quality, drive consistency, and mentor a dedicated team of producers to ensure every event is executed flawlessly.

Day to day You Will

• Lead the end-to-end production of B2C and Corporate events, ensuring they are delivered on time, on brand, and within budget.

• Partner with the Event Delivery Lead to oversee the event stream, ensuring quality and creative excellence across all projects.

• Manage and track complex event budgets to ensure financial accuracy and strong cost control.

• Build trusted relationships with Editorial, Marketing, Commercial, and Client stakeholders to integrate brand goals into live delivery.

• Mentor and coach Event Producers and Managers, providing guidance and fostering a high-performing, collaborative culture.

• Manage supplier and agency relationships to ensure they adhere to central strategies and high standards.

• Drive innovation in format design by researching new ways to push boundaries in audience engagement.

• Maintain event blueprints and core systems like Smartsheet and Slack to ensure seamless information sharing across the team.

What we're looking for from you

• Possession of a delivery-focused mindset with experience leading the end-to-end production of large-scale events.

• Ability to manage multiple complex workstreams and deadlines simultaneously while remaining calm under pressure.

• Experience managing intricate event budgets and maintaining commercial accuracy.

• Strong communication skills with the confidence to engage and influence stakeholders at a senior level.

• Proficiency in project management tools such as Smartsheet and Slack to drive operational precision.

• A collaborative approach to leadership, with a passion for coaching others and fostering a culture of creative bravery.

If you think you have what it takes but don’t tick every requirement on the list, please do apply. We recognise that considering someone’s potential as well as their experience is a great way to hire. We want to hear from people who have a passion to learn and develop.

News UK is one of the leading media businesses in the UK and Ireland. Our newsbrands include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Sun on Sunday and The TLS. Our national broadcast brands include talkSPORT, Times Radio and Virgin Radio UK, and we have market-leading local stations across Ireland. Our world-famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning print and pixel, audio and video, events and experiences, our multi-format brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. Driven by passion, guided by principles and acting with purpose, we exist to promote a fair society, freedom of speech and a little bit of fun. Rethinking continually the business of storytelling, we represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter.

At News UK, we embrace a hybrid work model, currently requiring a minimum of three days per week in the office. This approach fosters collaboration, innovation, and team spirit within our workspace. Certain roles may necessitate additional in-office days; please discuss this with your recruiter for specific requirements.

Life at News Driven by passion, guided by principles and acting with purpose. We represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter. We inform our audiences so that they can make decisions based on trusted information.

We represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter most. To ensure these stories resonate with as broad an audience as possible, it is essential that our organisation reflects the diversity of the people we reach. Whether through age, gender, ethnicity, disability, social class or sexuality, we are committed to representing the rich variety of voices that make up our society. And we champion a culture where everyone has the opportunity to contribute and thrive as we continue to innovate and drive long term sustainable growth. This is done through our Diversity Strategy.

At News UK, we take pride in our exceptional employee-led networks that bring together individuals with shared interests and create a vibrant sense of community. We believe our networks play a vital role in fostering a collaborative and supportive work culture at News UK. Groups that we support include the African & Caribbean Network, Parents and Carers, and LGBTQ+ group News Is Out, and the Apprentice Society.

Benefits

Some of our benefits include:

• Private medical insurance including coverage for pre-existing conditions

• Discounted gym memberships, free ClassPass at Home, weekly in person/ virtual exercise classes

• ‘Bikes for Work’ and ‘Electric Car’ scheme

• Up to 60% discount on Harper Collins books

• Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks

• Access to exclusive events and competitions with exciting brands such as talkSPORT, Virgin Radio UK & The Times. Weekly virtual panel chats with top journalists and celebrities

• Access to wellbeing benefits such as EAP, physio/massage and counselling

• A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%

• Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access

• 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays and up to 4 volunteering days per year

We want to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to perform to their best when applying for a role. If you would like to receive any information in a different way or for us to do anything differently to support you to apply for any of our roles please contact us on careers@news.co.uk.