Department: Marketing
Team: Industry Services & Solutions Marketing
Location: London with hybrid working
Position type: Contractor (inside IR35) - ASAP start until 31st March 2026

What the hiring manager says

“We are excited to offer this unique opportunity to join our Industry Services & Solutions Marketing Team. This is a pivotal role supporting the planning and execution of MWC Barcelona 2026, the largest global connectivity event. The position is crucial in ensuring the seamless organisation of our thought leadership and technical summits, seminars, keynotes and on-site productions, including high-profile speaker & stakeholder liaison, creating engaging content and production/post-production logistics and support. The successful candidate will play an integral part in bringing our events to life and maintaining the high standards that GSMA is known for worldwide."
Sian Fishwick, Marketing Director, Technology

About the Team

Industry Services and Solutions (ISS) Marketing supports the CTO office and the teams that are delivering crucial services, data, insights, technology development & thought leadership and member engagement. It is a varied team providing both demand- and lead-generation activities for our products, services and membership as well as communications and promotion around key technology and membership priorities. MWC Barcelona is a significant platform through which the ISS Marketing Team can undertake these activities and drive real impact for both the GSMA, and the wider connectivity ecosystem.

About the Role

We are seeking a detail-oriented and proactive Production Manager to join our team from mid-October 2025 to March 2026. This role will play a crucial part in driving the planning and execution of MWC Barcelona 2026, and potentially other key events. The successful candidate will assist in various marketing tasks, ensuring smooth coordination and efficient management of marketing assets and event-related activities.

About You

• This role is perfect for an energetic and detail-oriented individual who is passionate about marketing and eager to gain hands-on experience in event planning and execution within the technology sector.

• You are organised, proactive, a multi-tasker and someone who thrives in a fast-paced environment, and you have a knack for keeping things tidy and efficient, especially when managing digital content and files. Good PowerPoint skills are vital, as you will be dealing with presentations from stakeholders and speakers from across the globe and will prepare these for live broadcast.

• Your creativity shines through in your ability to create compelling digital banners, write engaging email marketing copy, and make minor video edits, always adhering to brand guidelines. You have a good knowledge of graphic design tools: Adobe Photoshop and/or Canva for creating and editing images, social media graphics, presentations, digital banners, survey tools, and other visual content with ease.

• You are comfortable navigating content management systems such as WordPress, and have an understanding of social media platforms and campaign management. You have a good knowledge of email marketing tools (e.g., Salesforce Marketing Cloud) for creating, sending, and analysing email campaigns.

• Your excellent communication skills allow you to collaborate effectively with various teams, and your can-do attitude ensures you are always ready to tackle new challenges.

• Whether it’s coordinating logistics for meetings or updating web content, you approach each task with enthusiasm and a willingness to learn.

Contract type

Short term Contractor

Worker type

Contingent Worker

What We Offer

Working at the GSMA offers you unparalleled access to the mobile industry. We offer a chance to truly shape the direction of mobile, whatever your role. By joining the GSMA, you will be exposed to a fast-paced rapidly evolving environment, working on global solutions, genuinely fascinating and industry-changing projects and a stimulating and dynamic environment designed to enable you to flourish.

In addition to architect-designed offices and competitive compensation, our benefits include fantastic learning & development opportunities, generous holiday allowances, four additional days off for professional development and many others.

To learn more about the GSMA, visit our career site, our LinkedIn page and our Twitter page.

Being You at the GSMA

We care deeply about diversity, equity and inclusivity and aspire to be the best at it. Your well-being and work/life balance is important, so flexi-time and remote working is available to all staff. We're keen to ensure everyone is equal, represented and connected so we particularly encourage applications from all demographics. The sucess of the GSMA year on year will continue to be contributed by people from all walks of life.

GSMA Values

Our values not only drive our culture – they shape how we work and interact inside and outside our global organisation.

Passionately driven

We approach everything we do with unparalleled capability, tenacity and commitment, knowing that the challenging scale, pace and complexity of our work is what leads to its world-changing impact.

Insightful leaders

We continually develop and engage our expertise, insight and creativity so that we’re always ready to respond to the changing landscape with authority, agility and nuance.

Stronger together

We lean on each other so the industry can lean on us, embracing our diversity by actively seeking out perspectives and skill sets beyond our own, fuelling each other’s successes and constantly asking how we can help.

Underpinning our values is our collective mindset to show up purposefully as good human beings every day, in every situation. When we’re at our best – we are collaborative, considerate and compassionate to others, and we create a safe space for one another to thrive, assuming positive intent in our colleagues. And if we aren’t at our best and the pressure is on – we feel free to be ourselves but still remain curious, lean into the tough stuff and we are always respectful to others and accountable for the part we play.