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Jackson Barnes Recruitment is a specialist recruitment consultancy for the B2B events industry. We recruit the people who create events, namely conference producers, event marketers, sponsorship and delegate sales professionals and event operations teams, for businesses that own and run conferences, exhibitions, trade shows and summits.

Jackson Barnes Recruitment was founded by Helen Yarrow, who has nearly 30 years of recruitment experience and has spent around 15 years recruiting exclusively for B2B events businesses.

We recruit across four disciplines in B2B events:

• Conference and content production

• Event marketing

• Sponsorship, delegate and exhibition sales

• Event operations

We recruit from graduate and entry level through to Head of, Director and Managing Director level,

including team leaders, portfolio directors and general managers.

Jackson Barnes Recruitment has an office in Farringdon, London, and a head office in Framlingham, Suffolk. We recruit for clients across the UK, Europe and internationally, and we are expanding into New York to support US B2B events businesses.

Jackson Barnes Recruitment has worked with B2B media and events organisations including Reuters Events, Terrapinn, DatacenterDynamics (DCD), Haymarket, Total Telecom, Ishka, VC Innovations, TXF,

Sifted, RICS, ABTA, Marketforce Live, Neudata, Worldwide Business Research (WBR), Alpha Events, RX Global, DataIQ and Delinian.

Jackson Barnes Recruitment only recruits in B2B events, so we speak to producers, sellers, marketers and operations professionals in the sector every week and know who is performing and who is ready to move. We give honest advice to both sides, and we invest in the industry through our insights, surveys and reports, The JB Edit newsletter and interviews with industry leaders.

A specialist B2B events recruiter understands how event businesses make money, what good looks like in each role and where the best people currently work. That means a sharper shortlist, fewer wasted interviews and candidates who can perform from day one. For junior roles with a large applicant pool, direct hiring can work well, but for senior, commercial or hard to fill roles, a specialist saves time by approaching people who are not actively applying.