Job Description

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S&P Global Ratings

Event Manager

The Team: The Ratings Global Event Marketing team is responsible for the strategy, management, and execution of events annually including webinars, hosted events, and 3rd party event sponsorships. Effective communication, cooperation, and mutual support help achieve common goals.

The Impact: As the Event Manager you will provide meeting and event expertise and direction, working with all S&P Ratings internal stakeholders (Analytical, Commercial and Market Outreach) throughout the EMEA region on their marketing initiatives.

Your job is to work closely with other meeting planners (primary: London/EMEA; secondary: globally) and marketing colleagues on making S&P Ratings\' events top-of-class in the financial sector.

What\'s in it for you: S&P Ratings manages hosted events, sponsorships and webinars each year, varying in size and scope. You will be looked to for your expertise in the meetings industry to direct client on virtual platforms, locations, logistics, budgets, strategy, communications, and creativity.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Corporates/Infrastructure & ESG related hosted events (virtual and in-person), webinars and 3rd Party Events. You will work closely with those stakeholders and understanding the business will help you to formulate the event execution plan.

• Lead and run events from start to finish in London, throughout EMEA and some global involvement.

• Participate and coordinate with external/internal parties for industry sponsorships.

• Project manage EMEA roadshows with other internal stakeholders.

• Speakers (internal & external) prep and training and ensuring successful execution.

• Communication Plans: Review and contribute to correspondence (emails, registrations, social and digital media) with internal stakeholders, external customers, and guest speakers. Pull attendee registration lists for invitations. 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 vendors.

• Reporting: Providing post-event metrics and KPIs.

• Sourcing: Meetings/events/receptions with hoteliers, food service directors, restaurants, ground operators, d\xc3\xa9cor & entertainment companies, promotional items, AV & Production companies.

• Contracts: Review and negotiate contracts for all vendors (hotel, restaurant, AV, 3rd party associations, etc.).

• Ensure compliance with insurance, legal, health and safety obligations.

• Regular administrative duties for the events team - track, manage events calendar, pipeline and budget tracker.

What We\'re Looking For:

• An S&P Global employee at this level would typically have 5-7 years of progressive experience in meeting/event planning.

• Experience with Virtual and In-Person event execution.

• Experience working with sponsors and/or client relationships and fulfilment.

• A good understanding of financial markets and experience or an interest in Sustainable Finance is desirable.

• Experience with any of the following platforms: Pardot, On24, Cvent, GlobalMeet, SalesForce or similar experience (i.e. Eloqua or Marketo instead of Pardot).

• Must be able to work effectively and collaboratively in a team oriented, global, and multi-cultural environment.

• The ideal candidate has a passion for events, is highly organized and has a sense of urgency.

• Strong customer service focus.

• Bachelors degree preferred, or relevant experience as outlined above.

• Some travel will be required from time to time in Europe.

Grade Level: Grade 10 (for internal purposes)

Location: London

Benefits

Here at S&P Global we believe in offering a competitive transparent benefits package. In London this includes a Wellbeing Support Program, Recharge (S&P Global\'s flexible time-off approach under which there is no prescribed maximum amount of time off you can take), our hybrid working model, our Parental Leave, and Give Back Days (five days of paid leave per calendar year to spend volunteering in your community). We encourage you to ask about our benefits during our screening process with our talent acquisition team.

S&P Global delivers essential intelligence that powers decision making. We provide the world\'s leading organizations with the right data, connected technologies and expertise they need to move ahead. As part of our team, you\'ll help solve complex challenges that equip businesses, governments and individuals with the knowledge to adapt to a changing economic landscape.

S&P Global Ratings offers critical insights for credit, risk and sustainable finance solutions that are essential to translating complexity into clarity, so market participants can uncover opportunities.

S&P Global has a Securities Disclosure and Trading Policy (\xe2\x80\x9cthe Policy\xe2\x80\x9d) that seeks to mitigate conflicts of interest by monitoring and placing restrictions on personal securities holding and trading. The Policy is designed to promote compliance with global regulations. In some Divisions, pursuant to the Policy\'s requirements, candidates at S&P Global may be asked to disclose securities holdings. Some roles may include a trading prohibition and remediation of positions when there is an effective or potential conflict of interest. Employment at S&P Global is contingent upon compliance with the Policy.



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: and your request will be forwarded to the appropriate person.

US Candidates Only: The EEO is the Law Poster describes discrimination protections under federal law.

20 - Professional (EEO-2 Job Categories-United States of America), CMCOAF202.1 - Middle Professional Tier I (EEO Job Group)

Job ID: 291301
Posted On: 2023-08-28
Location: London, United Kingdom

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