World Congress - Leadership Summits Conference Manager

World Congress conference managers are entrepreneurial with a drive to identify and forecast health care industry trends to develop a vision for strategic leadership events. Candidates must demonstrate strong investigative and analytical research skills and the ability to translate this research into a compelling conference agenda. Candidates also must able to develop commercially-viable conference agendas, participate in sponsorship discussions, recruit the highest caliber speakers and give strategic direction to marketing and promotional efforts.

World Congress conference managers bring 2-5 years business experience, preferably in health care or conference production, as well as BS/BA preferably in Journalism, Marketing, Communications or Business Management. Strong written and verbal communications skills and the ability to produce a strategic event in a timely manner is a necessity.

Responsibilities include:

• Research health care trends and identify viable conference topics
• Conducting in-depth research to identify key trends and issues in the health care industry
• Develop a strategic vision for the event and communicate that vision internally and externally
• Foster relationships with health care thought leaders
• Create innovative, valuable program agendas
• Lead a talented team of operations, marketing and sponsorship sales professionals
• Travel to national events and network with hundreds of senior level executives

If you are interested in career opportunities with World Congress, please forward a cover letter (please be sure to refer to this ad), resume, work samples and salary expectations to: jennifer.morales@wchnet.com

World Congress is an Equal Opportunity Employer with competitive compensation and benefits including: health and dental insurance, LTD/STD, 401(K) and other job perks. World Congress is a dynamic, achievement-based environment.

Sales Representative, Sponsorship and Exhibit Sales

World Congress is a leading producer of domestic and international health care conferences.  World Congress is the producer of The World Health Care Congress, The World Health Care Congress – Europe, The World Health Care Innovation and Technology Congress, The Health & Human Capital Management Congress, and The World Congress Leadership Summit Series. World Congress events convene CEOs and senior executives from all segments of the healthcare industry, with the latest thought leaders and case studies, representing innovative, solution-oriented approaches to make significant advances in healthcare cost and quality.

Main responsibilities include:

• Meet and exceed all sales targets developed by your Sales Manager.
• Telephone and face-to face presentations to sell sponsorship and exhibit opportunities to current and prospective clients.
• Work with prospective clients and the conference team to develop new sponsorship products and proposals for implementation.
• Attend competitive events to identify and meet with key prospects
• Work with customers at the conference in which they have sponsored or are exhibiting to ensure customer satisfaction.
• Creation of event sponsorship and exhibit packages with competitive pricing.

Position attributes
The ideal candidate will have strong negotiating and relationship building skills. Past sponsorship and exhibiting sales history is desirable, not required. Customer oriented, solution based sales experience is required.

• Four year college degree
• Three plus year's sales experience or experience in a position requiring relationship building, solution based work with customers.

Professional Attributes: Candidates for this position require the motivation, initiative and attention to detail and deadlines to provide high levels of service and ability to implement these requirements in a professional manner. Communication skills, project management skills, high energy and the ability to successfully prioritize and organize are a necessity.

Candidates with 3-4 years of exhibit/sponsor experience or meeting/exhibit management preferred and a BA/BS in Communications, Business Management.

Send resume, cover letter and compensation expectations to:

World Congress
500 West Cummings Park, Suite 5200
Woburn, MA 01801
or FAX: 781-939-2532
or email: jennifer.morales@wchnet.com

World Congress is an Equal Opportunity Employer with competitive compensation and benefits including: health and dental insurance, LTD/STD, 401(K) and other job perks. World Congress is a dynamic, achievement-based environment.

Inside Sales Associate

Brief Description of Inside Sales
World Conference Management is looking to hire an entry level sales associate in one of our subsidiaries, World Congress and World Research Group. We will train you to call on specific lists within our database to give high-level executives more information about our conference and publishing offerings. You must have a working knowledge of MS Word, Excel, Windows XP and experience using the Internet. World Conference Management is looking for competitive and sales driven individuals. This position is a great opportunity for the right college educated individual looking to break into a sales career.

Background on World Congress

World Congress is the leading global provider of healthcare conferences, building health care communities by convening senior executives from all segments of the industry and government policymaking. Whether it’s our annual flagship event, the World Health Care Congress, its overseas counterpart, World Health Care Congress Europe, or one of our more specialized Congresses and Leadership Summits, we produce the premier industry forums that generate content that matters and foster connections that provide the lasting benefits.

If you are interested in applying this position, please e-mail jennifer.morales@wchnet.com and attach a cover letter along with your up-to-date resume, including salary history, and cite the position that interests you in the subject line.

World Conference Management is a dynamic achievement based environment and an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Call Center Manager
World Conference Management
500 West Cummings Park, Suite 5200
Woburn, MA 01801
Email Resumes to: jennifer.morales@wchnet.com

World Congress is an Equal Opportunity Employer with competitive compensation and benefits including: health and dental insurance, LTD/STD, 401(K) and other job perks. World Congress is a dynamic, achievement-based environment.