General Manager, Reuters Events (New York)

General Manager – Reuters Events

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 problem. Build customer focused, high-performing teams through direct and dotted line reporting lines including across sales, marketing, product, and operations. 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 and problem‑solving abilities. We’re looking for an exceptional strategist with great business acumen, that clearly communicate to and manage a range of key stakeholders. Strong people leadership skills, fostering a high performance, innovative, inclusive culture and developing talent at all levels.

What’s in it For You?

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. 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, 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 Grow My Way programming and skills‑first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future. Industry Competitive 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. Culture: Globally recognized, award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work‑life balance, and more. We live by our values: Obsess over our Customers, Compete to Win, Challenge (Y)our Thinking, Act Fast / Learn Fast, and Stronger Together. 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. Making a Real-World Impact:We are one of the few companies globally that helps its customers pursue justice, truth, and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world. In the United States, Thomson Reuters offers a comprehensive benefits package to our employees. Our benefit package includes market competitive health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance programs, as well as a competitive 401k plan with company match. In addition, Thomson Reuters offers market leading work life benefits with competitive vacation, sick and safe paid time off, paid holidays (including two company mental health days off), parental leave, sabbatical leave. These benefits meet or exceeds the requirements of paid time off in accordance with any applicable state or municipal laws. Finally, Thomson Reuters offers the following additional benefits: optional hospital, accident and sickness insurance paid 100% by the employee; optional life and AD&D insurance paid 100% by the employee; Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts; fitness reimbursement; access to Employee Assistance Program; Group Legal Identity Theft Protection benefit paid 100% by employee; access to 529 Plan; commuter benefits; Adoption & Surrogacy Assistance; Tuition Reimbursement; and access to Employee Stock Purchase Plan. Thomson Reuters complies with local laws that require upfront disclosure of the expected pay range for a position. The base compensation range varies across locations. Eligible office location(s) for this role include one or more of the following: New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and/or Irvine, CA; McLean, VA; Washington, DC. The base compensation range for the role in any of those locations is $181,400 USD - $337,000 USD. Base pay is positioned within the range based on several factors including an individual’s knowledge, skills and experience with consideration given to internal equity. Base pay is one part of a comprehensive Total Reward program which also includes flexible and supportive benefits and other wellbeing programs. This role may also be eligible for an Annual Bonus based on a combination of enterprise and individual performance.

About Us

Thomson Reuters informs the way forward by bringing together the trusted content and technology that people and organizations need to make the right decisions. We serve professionals across legal, tax, accounting, compliance, government, and media. Our products combine highly specialized software and insights to empower professionals with the data, intelligence, and solutions needed to make informed decisions, and to help institutions in their pursuit of justice, truth, and transparency. Reuters, part of Thomson Reuters, is a world leading provider of trusted journalism and news. 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. 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. As a global business, we rely on the unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences of all employees to deliver on our business 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 ]]> <