Position Overview: As the Event Marketing Manager (Seminar Program Administrator), you’ll provide meeting expertise and direction, working with select S&P Ratings internal stakeholders on their client-facing event marketing initiatives. Your job will interface closely with other event marketers, creative, compliance, and other functional teams to create and execute successful S&P Ratings’ events in the financial sector.
The Impact: S&P Global Ratings Event Marketing team manages over 600 virtual and in-person meetings, webinars, and 3rd Party events each year, varying in size from 30 – 600 people and scope of half- one-to-three-day meetings. You will be looked to for your expertise in the meetings industry to direct stakeholders on strategy around, target dates, locations, logistics, communications, and creativity.
Key Responsibilities:
• Stakeholder Strategic Partner: You will lead the collaborative event discussions with Commercial, Analytical, Market Outreach and Marketing colleagues for your target sectors.
• Meeting Specifications: All meeting logistics to include but not limited to communicating meeting needs to vendors, registration, on-site execution and creating on-site staff responsibilities, registration and attendee tracking, presentation and materials support pre and post event evaluations room set up and monitoring, food & beverage requirements, collecting Audio-Visual specifications.
• Manage event budgets and negotiate the best value for Ratings across all events
• Track, manage events calendar, pipeline, and budget tracker
• Communication: Pre and post conference meetings with clients. All correspondence with internal and external guest speakers. Review and contribute to all communication to meeting invitees. Provide project parameters for completion of support assignments. Conduct pre-conference and post-conference meetings with hoteliers.
• Sourcing: Meetings/events/receptions with hoteliers, food service directors, restaurants, ground operators, décor & entertainment companies, promotional items, AV & Production companies.
• Contracts: Review contracts with notes for the Director, Events Marketing who will negotiate and contract all vendors (hotel, restaurant, AV, etc.). Provide outline and explanation to host of all contractual items including any potential cancellations.
• Helps craft communications for email campaigns, as well as write and review marketing materials, etc.
• Ensure compliance with insurance, legal, health and safety obligations
• Take charge, entrepreneurial, creative, proactive self-starter, tap into app & tech trends
Functional Competencies
• Energizes and Enables Others: Must be able to work effectively and collaboratively in a team oriented, global, and multi-cultural environment to drive success.
• Builds Collaborative Relationships: Builds relationships based on trust and respect. Promotes the inclusion of diverse knowledge, skills, and experiences to achieve results.
• Demonstrates Learning Agility: Ability to anticipate change, face reality, draw conclusions and swiftly mobilize to adapt to changing needs and demands.
• Drives Creativity and Innovation: Focuses on areas of highest potential. Connects knowledge in new ways to create the unexpected.
• Strives for Excellence in Execution: Proactively seeks ways to improve personal and organizational effectiveness to meet current and future business needs. Learns equally from successes and failures.
Required:
• Five+ years of progressive experience in meeting/event planning exhibiting the ability to successfully manage the Meeting Planner responsibilities listed above.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills and strong interpersonal skills
• Must be able to manage multiple events in a fast-paced environment
• Proven administrative, organizational, and problem-solving skills
• Ability to work independently and within a team environment
• Highly organized, has a high sense of urgency, and very customer service oriented.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office (Outlook, Teams, PowerPoint, Excel)
Skills to give you an edge:
• Pardot
• Salesforce
• Cvent
• On24
• Adobe Photoshop/Canva
• A good understanding of financial markets and business environment including implications to S&Ps analytical products and services is a plus.
• Experience working with sponsors and/or client relationships and fulfillment required.
Location: New York, NY
• This is a hybrid job with 1-2 days in office (55 Water Street NYC) subject to event schedule
• Primary event execution will be in NYC
• Some Travel (10-20%) required
• Some overtime and weekend work are occasionally needed
Our Hiring Manager Says
We are looking for someone who is proactive and has a sincere interest in event marketing. This candidate needs to be communicative, innovative, and collaborative. You should be a self-starter and a strong cohesive team member of a global event team.
To develop and execute our event strategy and plan you will be collaborating with multiple stakeholders across Ratings Commercial and Analytical teams, management of priorities and expectations is going to be integral to your success.
We welcome new ideas and insights to help differentiate us from competitors and improve our overall delivery to our customers. We will be focused on your development and providing you with the foundation to thrive at S&P.
Compensation/Benefits Information (US Applicants Only):
S&P Global states that the anticipated base salary range for this position is $49,400USD to $98,200USD. Base salary ranges may vary by geographic location and experience.
In addition to base compensation, this role is eligible for an annual incentive bonus.
This role is eligible to receive additional S&P Global benefits. For more information on the benefits we provide to our employees, visit https://www.spgbenefitessentials.com/newhires .
Equal Opportunity Employer
S&P Global is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race/ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, marital status, military veteran status, unemployment status, or any other status protected by law. Only electronic job submissions will be considered for employment.
If you need an accommodation during the application process due to a disability, please send an email to: EEO.Compliance@spglobal.com and your request will be forwarded to the appropriate person.
US Candidates Only:The EEO is the Law Poster http://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/pdf/eeopost.pdf describes discrimination protections under federal law.
203 – Entry Professional (EEO Job Group) (inactive), 20 – Professional (EEO-2 Job Categories-United States of America), GLDADM203 – Entry Professional (EEO Job Group)
Job ID: 285427
Posted On: 2023-05-02
Location: New York, New York, United States