General Manager, Reuters Events

General Manager - Reuters Events

We envisage the successful candidate working from our London office, with hybrid working available.

Want to lead the events division of one of the world's most trusted information providers? Like the sound of strategically growing Reuters Events, its product strategy and working with an amazing, high performing team? This might be the role for you.

Reuters is seeking an experienced General Manager to lead and grow its conferences and events business, Reuters Events. Reuters Events, part of Reuters Professional, creates impactful, high-profile events that bring together industry leaders, influencers, and experts from across the globe to share knowledge, ignite innovation, and facilitate meaningful connections.

As General Manager of Reuters Events, you'll take a strategic leadership position that will allow you to drive business growth, develop our product strategy and manage the operations of the events business. You will be responsible for setting the strategic and product vision for Reuters Events, overseeing both operational KPIs and the P&L, and will work collaboratively across departments within Reuters Professional. As our General Manager, you'll lead our established Delegate Sales, Production, Marketing and Event Ops teams and, as a key senior leader within Reuters Professional, will work closely with the wider commercial (i.e. digital and speciality) teams within Reuters.

About the Role

As General Manager at Reuters Events, you will:

• Formulate and implement comprehensive business strategies to meet revenue and growth targets in line with Reuters Professional overall Reuters strategy.
• Lead the Reuters Events product vision and roadmap, working effectively with internal and external stakeholders as well as clients. You'll identify and evaluate new market opportunities for growth, monitor industry trends, competitor activities, and regulatory developments and will partner with colleagues across Reuters Professional's leadership team to develop and execute strategies.
• Build customer focused, high-performing teams through direct and dotted line reporting lines including across sales, marketing, product, and operations.
• Ensure operational excellence across commercial functions supporting Reuters Events, managing the P&L and establishing and monitoring KPIs to ensure the business is meeting its objectives.
• Take an active role in leading Reuters Events' product offering. You'll have a deep understanding of both the needs and challenges of delegates and sponsors, will lead market research efforts to identify unmet content needs and emerging product opportunities and will analyse portfolio performance and gather customer feedback to inform future development efforts.
• Take a hands-on role in leading the organisation. You'll inspire the Reuters Events teams to compete to win in the market, will support teams to challenge thinking and resourcefully solve problems.
• Foster a culture of innovation and excellence within the team whilst promoting a collaborative and high-performing team environment.

About You

You're a fit for the role of General Manager at Reuters Events if you have:

• Demonstrable experience in a commercially led leadership role, preferably within the events / conferencing industry.
• Demonstrated success in driving significant revenue growth and scaling B2B global conference businesses, ideally in a global setting.
• Deep understanding of the events business and market dynamics.
• An entrepreneurial mindset with a proven track record of successful P&L management.
• Great people leadership skills, fostering a high performance, innovative, inclusive culture and developing talent at all levels.
• The ability to excel in a fast-paced and dynamic environment, with the ability to manage teams in a matrixed organisation.
• An analytical mindset with problem-solving abilities. We're looking for an exceptional strategist with great business acumen, that can clearly communicate to and manage a range of key stakeholders.

Please Note: Completed applications must be submitted by Sunday 11th May 2025. Early applications are encouraged.

What's in it For You?

Join us to inform the way forward with the latest AI solutions and address real-world challenges in legal, tax, compliance, and news. Backed by our commitment to continuous learning and market-leading benefits, you'll be prepared to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future. This includes:

• Industry-Leading Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
• Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities, whether caring for family, giving back to the community, or finding time to refresh and reset. This builds upon our flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year, and hybrid model, empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance.
• Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow's challenges and deliver real-world solutions. Our skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.
• Culture: Globally recognized and award-winning reputation for inclusion, innovation, and customer-focus. Our eleven business resource groups nurture our culture of belonging across the diverse backgrounds and experiences represented across our global footprint.
• Hybrid Work Model: We've adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.
• Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.

Do you want to be part of a team helping re-invent the way knowledge professionals work? How about a team that works every day to create a more transparent, just and inclusive future? At Thomson Reuters, we've been doing just that for almost 160 years. Our industry-leading products and services include highly specialized information-enabled software and tools for legal, tax, accounting and compliance professionals combined with the world's most global news services - Reuters. We help these professionals do their jobs better, creating more time for them to focus on the things that matter most: advising, advocating, negotiating, governing and informing.

We are powered by the talents of 26,000 employees across more than 70 countries, where everyone has a chance to contribute and grow professionally in flexible work environments that celebrate diversity and inclusion. At a time when objectivity, accuracy, fairness and transparency are under attack, we consider it our duty to pursue them. Sound exciting? Join us and help shape the industries that move society forward.

Accessibility

As a global business, we rely on diversity of culture and thought to deliver on our goals. To ensure we can do that, we seek talented, qualified employees in all our operations around the world regardless of race, color, sex/gender, including pregnancy, gender identity and expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, age, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under applicable law. Thomson Reuters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer providing a drug-free workplace.

We also make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs in accordance with applicable law.